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The opinion seems to be "you shouldn't want an easily resized split screen or snap windows to the edge of the screen."

For a company with a philosophy of order, purposefulness, and minimalism, this seems odd.

You know what would be cool? Is if we could drag a window so far off screen that a user will never be able to grab it once they let go

- Apple, probably

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Being opinionated is good, but at some point you have to realize when you went the wrong path. Window management on macOS is terrible, period. This isn't just force of habit or "just another way to do", it sucks. Even command+tab is terrible, it doesn't even browse all the open windows but the open app, which is a completely irrelevant distinction, I have to install AltTab because of this.

This is your opinion . The way macOS does window management is internally consistent, and for those of us who have used it for decades, it works perfectly well. Just because Windows chose to do it a different way, and Linux copied Windows because it had a monopoly on the desktop, doesn't mean what macOS is doing is bad . If you don't like it, you don't have to use macOS . (Or, you can install the exact utilities vari…

alt+tab on gnome use that same concept of osx!

but i actually use a tiling WM the way OSX intended the user to its own desktp, with a bunch of virtual desktop and full screen app

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I find hilarious the fact that we need to buy & install a windowing tool because the native OS window system has been broken for the past 40 years. Can't they just copy what windows and linux are doing?

No doubt that window tiling should be a native feature. But that's not even my biggest gripe with macOS. You simply cannot disable animations. Moving between workspaces is so slow because there is a 300ms transition. There is an accessibility reduced motion settings, but all it does is replace the transition from a slide to a fade in/out. The only solution I could find is to keep all the windows at full width and hei…

i agree with you, one of the reason i switched back to linux (fedora)

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Enabling 3 finger mouse dragging is my favorite hidden tweak. Its in accessibility settings rather than the regular trackpad settings for some reason

Another hidden tweak (that unfortunately interferes with yours): "Swipe between pages" set to "Swipe with Three Fingers." No more animation when navigating back/forward in Safari, and it works in more places to boot, e.g. Finder and Xcode Documentation. (This is because it uses an entirely different code path for navigation. Some more context under "Technical Notes": https://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net)

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Why use sublime over vscode Just curious to know

It's very lightweight in comparison + I'm so used to it that I can't be bothered to switch. I tried Cursor the other day.

What extensions do you use,

I heard they don’t have great extensions support is that true

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