It’s honesty shocking that in 2023, MacOS still has a nonexistent window managing system. Forget us on the outside. How are the tens of thousands of employees who work for Apple not sending the executive team daily feedback on this?
Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
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Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#2I don't miss it. I carefully dragged each window to align just right one time, and never had to redo it since. It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements I use (laptop, laptop + big monitor) so I only had to do the fiddly work once.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#3I don't miss it. I carefully dragged each window to align just right one time, and never had to redo it since. It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements I use (laptop, laptop + big monitor) so I only had to do the fiddly work once.
And you've just never, ever, needed to rearrange or move your windows since?
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#4This does seem like a personal preference. I quite like MacOS window management, and I hate Windows window management.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#5Just use Rectangle app https://rectangleapp.com/
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#6I don't miss it. I carefully dragged each window to align just right one time, and never had to redo it since. It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements I use (laptop, laptop + big monitor) so I only had to do the fiddly work once.
And you've just never, ever, needed to rearrange or move your windows since?
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Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#7I don't miss it. I carefully dragged each window to align just right one time, and never had to redo it since. It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements I use (laptop, laptop + big monitor) so I only had to do the fiddly work once.
And you've just never, ever, needed to rearrange or move your windows since?
Apple users are that vanilla ;)
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#8It’s probably like how their Health app sucks to use directly: they figure people will solve it with apps, and people have done that. There are competing solutions available that are all pretty good.
And now that there are so many solutions it might make less sense to then integrate one which will practically kill the rest.
I personally use an app Divvy which let me create global hot keys for specific arrangements and moved on.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#9I don't miss it. I carefully dragged each window to align just right one time, and never had to redo it since. It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements I use (laptop, laptop + big monitor) so I only had to do the fiddly work once.
And you've just never, ever, needed to rearrange or move your windows since?
A few times, I guess.
I might do it more often if I had separate OS windows for code editing. But I use VSCode (and Emacs before that) with 2 or 3 side-by-side panels. I drag those panes wider and narrower frequently.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#10I use Rectangle for this. Works like a charm. https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle