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It'll be handy on Mac where you can easily do split desktop, but can't easily undo it, so it's hardly used.
I mean, that just makes me not want to use Mac, I don't really need every program I use picking up the slack in their own unique way.
I'd prefer it fixed at source too, but I do think there's a case for making it easy to, say fill in a form in one tab side by side with a reference tab if it's a 2 click sort of solution (even windows needs annoying drag and dropping with some randomness thrown in)
I'm forced to use that shit at work.
For window management "Rectangle" helps.
For a better tabbing behaviour I use "AltTab".
For setting the volume of a sound device over HDMI I can recommend "MonitorControl".
Then edit the keymap to be less stupid with Ukelele, use ForkLift instead of Finder, qView instead of Preview for photos, and of course Firefox instead of Safari, and things start getting tolerable.
I'm unfortunately a slave to the three finger swipe (I think if that worked as well on Linux I would swap, tried a few third party things on Mint but it's not as good)
What's forklift bring to the table?
Mainly it doesn't delete network locations from my favourites if they happen to be unreachable. 😅
It was hell, I started a new job with a confusing filing system used by the team, where hundreds of locations feel like they are important, and the damn Finder on the damn macOS kept deleting the favourites. First I worked around it with local symlinks and favouriting those, but it was just way less handy.
I also liked being able to rebind "Move to Trash" to the delete key, and "Delete" to shift+delete.
But I think most people like ForkLift for the dual pane view.
So you mean dragging a window to the side until it conforms to half the screen? And then doing the same with a second window? Why is that difficult to undo? Just drag the windows again, right?
On Mac I have everything maximised, so I have to drag the thumbnail on top of another thumbnail, which then splits them unevenly, so I have to fix that, then to undo it you have to understand maximize one half (and to get back to where you started at least) re maximize and drag it back I to it's position. Plus there are the steps to take an existing tab and make it its own window in the first place.
Compared to like right clicking a tab and "show on the side" or however it will work..
Oh, you use the strange fullscreen mode. That’s beyond maximizing. And it’s not popular, for good reason.
You are intentionally making window management more difficult on yourself by treating it like an old school iPad. But that clarifies why you consider it difficult.
Just for clarity, maximizing a window is scaling it as big as it goes. Putting a window or app into fullscreen mode is different. If the menu bar is hidden, you are not maximizing.
Once I used the three finger swipe I couldnt go back. Being able to just quickly peek at another full screen app was very useful, now it's just muscle memory (and I hate the wasted screen space on the "large but not maximum" windows)
That makes sense. Especially on laptops.
It makes less sense on a 24, 27 or 30 inch monitor.