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Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?
Wait, is this an official MS utility? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ Why aren't these just bundled by default??
Probably because changing stuff in the main OS is pretty complex and needs approval from many different actors at Microsoft. Releasing a simple utility application on the other hand should be much easier and isn't bound to any release cycle.
Also no built in screen recording software, wtf? 2022 at least gifs pls
Have you tried looking it up? There literally is a built-in screen record functionality.[1] I swear, half of negative comments here about Windows are FUD from users who either never used it longer than 5 minutes and don't bother looking stuff up. [1] https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/how-to-video-screen-captu...
Video recording isn't gaming feature, it's the same kind of app as paint, notepad or calculator are.
Wait, is this an official MS utility? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ Why aren't these just bundled by default??
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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.
Tx :D
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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.
Installing of applications is done by dragging them into some place, and then there is no feedback about what is happening. And so on and on.
I'd use PowerToys Color Picker more, but it lacks contrast ratios/accessibility information, which is where it would be most useful to me. It was suggested on their GitHub but didn't gain much traction:
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/9357
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/14454
9 times out of 10, I am getting color information to run these exact checks, so it would just save an extra step.
But Explorer is something I stopped using more than a decade ago when I encountered TotalCommander - that I cannot do without!!!
The regex-supporting live-preview batch-filenaming utility alone is awesome.
I work so much faster (with the keyboard) than will ever possible in Explorer!
I could write for hours about the greatness of TCM, but as that’s a little off topic here I won’t :-)
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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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.