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Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering the 2nd most used desktop OS is MacOS and you can’t even maximise a window properly out of the box…

Double clicking any unused portion of the title bar will maximize a window within it's current space without going full-screen (the green button). It's not the most intuitive way to do it, but that's a far cry from being impossible out of the box.

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Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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At least windows explorer has some great extension utilities like File Menu Tools; a tool that can be configured to cover pretty much every file explorer extension usecase you can imagine.

OSX and XDG (Gnome etc...) based systems have nothing close last time I checked.

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Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?

I would like to have multiple desktops like MacOS but windows has snaps which MacOS doesn't has.

While I like my awesome more on a laptop, every is can be configured one way or the other to feel similar across OSes.

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Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?

Out of the box windows management for MacOS is much worse than Windows, so not sure I follow? Power Toys does make Windows 10x better though... and they really should make it the default once it's fully stable.

I used to prefer MacOS for development, but Windows has far surpassed it in recent years, between native linux experience in WSL and better QOL tooling via Power Toys. The removal of vertical taskbar has been pretty annoying though... pretty awful on a 49" monitor. All that's left now is to get some 5nm chips in Windows machines

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

#36
This reminds me of one of my favorite features from the Mac: Quick Look — press space to instantly bring up a big contextual preview window of the selected document in the Finder.

You can bring it to Windows with this useful open source tool: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?

No, but there is probably some law of the universe that states if there is a thread about Windows, a neckbeard must say that some feature of Windows is the worst thing ever.

I've actually never heard anyone mention Windows windows manager because the only people in the world who care don't use Windows.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?

Can you explain your claim? For me, Windows 11 has one of the best window management experiences out of the box, far ahead of MacOS and in line Linux. The ease of resizing, snapping and tiling windows out of the box is really well implemented in Windows 11 so I really don't get your claim.

Features that take advantage of multiple desktops are nonexistent. I don't think a tool to assign applications to specific desktops exists even outside the built-in stuff. And setting 1-2 apps as full-screen desktop is something I really liked about macOS that's not available. Before Windows 11, desktops didn't even have unique wallpapers.

Re: PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

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post #34
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Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?

I would like to have multiple desktops like MacOS but windows has snaps which MacOS doesn't has. While I like my awesome more on a laptop, every is can be configured one way or the other to feel similar across OSes.

Windows does have multiple desktops. Win+Tab to add and move between them.
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