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It's 2023 and Apple is a trillion dollar company, and they still don't have window snapping/tiling in OSX. I don't have anything positive to say about their OS lol.
Afaik it's patented.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qlnwzx/window_snapping_should_be_the_default_window/hj490vu
Damn tell that to literally every single Linux WM lol
That's, for example, how VLC can use patented codecs. France doesn't allow for software patents, meaning that as VLC is produced it France, they can use all the codecs they want...
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Patents, copyright and trademark do nothing but make rich people richer and stifle innovation.
They encourage creation. Trademarks are different. In order to do so properly, they should be far more limited.
Right now the forever copyright means no one can remix sixty year old stories
Right now patents are issued for trivial IT "inventions" which stifle competing products.
Trademarks are fine. They are intended to protect you from misleading products. They let Apple sue people that sell stuff which might mislead you into thinking it's an apple product.
Of course trademarks are also abused, for example Apple uses trademarks to prevent recycling iPhone parts. That couple be fixed.
You can't even reprint 60-year-old stories.
Lemme get this straight. Microsoft successfully got a patent for a feature that KDE had before Windows did?
Bro they don't even have touchscreen support
They’ve had it for a while
I was missing the KDE style drag/resize windows with modifier keys, then I found https://penc.app that kinda fills that void
it also does snapping and auto 50% with trackpad gesture
The first thing I do with a new Mac is install Better Touch Tool UI. It's mandatory software for Mac as far as I'm concerned.
I wasn't referencing tiling managers. I'm referring to simply dragging a window to the left/right side of the screen and snapping it to 50% of the screen. It's actually painful to not have that feature. That's extremely common. I'm not implying it needs to be an i3 clone.
Sounds like they should probably improve their terrible UX. People say they have good UX somehow?
I see zero reason why dragging a window to an edge shouldn't 50% resize it and snap to another window border. Not sure whatever you're referring to with Apple implementation either, it's just a floating window UI that will benefit from this. Virtual desktops also have nothing to do with the resizing of windows. Also don't really understand the unrelated rant against Gnome not having minimize.
I feel like the full screen tiling on mac makes up for this. Having used both windows and Mac a lot I think I slightly prefer Mac's way of splitting full screen windows but I see the appeal of both
I had to use MacOS for 2 years after using Windows for 20. The copious amounts of energy suddenly releasing when thousands of dying stars start to explode in unison can't compare to the deep, burning hate I feel for MacOS.
But I know there are people who like or love it. No problem with that. It's just a personal feeling.
You do you, but I just hate MacOS way of tilling. When I'm tilling windows I'm generally multi-tasking and I need my dock to look at a third window from time to time. Having it in full screen renders this impossible and the animation for switching is sooooooooo slooooooow😅
I'm not even sure full screen tiling can be called tiling at all.
I mean, I'm never gonna tile my kitchen floor with one GIANT tile.
Technically that's still tiling, but it completely misses the point lol
Lol you tile your desktop as much as your kitchen floor? I only tend to need to have three things up at most so Mac optimizes my screen space the best since I have 2 monitors, but I'm not on on the multitasking level of many people here it seems
*I think mac os started supporting tiling of non full screen windows as well according to some other comments so maybe kitchen style would work now
Nothing wrong with that, IMO those features suck and always annoy me when I encounter them by accident. By god I'm going to manually position every fucking window that I use. That keeps them where they should be.
Don't get me started on encountering a 'feature' by accident, I'm looking at you hot corners 🤮
Everything wrong with that lol, also that's just weird. If I want to have two windows side by side, I'm going to want to drag them to simply the edges of the left/right of the screen.