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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...
jibe*
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?
They’ve had it for a while
Bro they don't even have touchscreen support
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.
Rectangle Pro for me, 100%. I bought the paid version too as I loved it.
I like my windows organized and macOS has this penchant for chaos. Windoze at least has FancyZones in PowerToys which is chef's kiss perfectly done, and I can't live without it.
I haven't heard of those programs, but BetterTouchTool also adds window snapping and tiling, and let's you create custom keybinds and macros, so you can do completely unheard of stuff like use a normal mouse (gasp!). It sounds like your programs are just different variants of the same thing. Right?
MacOS, or the joy of paying extra for shit that should be included OOTB, especially in an OS that every user profusely advertises as "just works", "intuitive", etc
BS
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.
It takes getting used to but it really is much better for multi tasking to stop using alt + tab and minimize altogether. Send one window to desktop 1 and another to desktop 2. Now you have consciously chosen where they are and can go there quickly (i. e. Win+1).
I always put the same program in the same place, just like organizing a toolbox/kitchen. Every tool has it's place.
Both macOS and Windows have virtual desktops too though.
So use KDE or xfce or ...
In Linux you have choice
I can't say that I agree with you as far as the Apple stuff, but as a long time Gnome user, I agree with you 100% about Gnome. I loved Gnome 2, but even after all these years Gnome 3 has not grown on me. I'm actually running it on my main desktop PC right now so it's not for lack of trying. Maybe I'm just a dinosaur but I'd take some Gnome 2 with Compiz over this mess of a desktop environment even still.
KDE has docks. It's just another Plasmoid (i.e. a desktop widget). It's not as smooth as MacOS's, but it looks decent and gets the job done.
It's been working great for me. What do you need it to do? Mine is just like the MacOS dock: it has shortcuts on the left side and opened programs on the right side.
You can create a MacOS style top panel in KDE, and then add whatever widgets you want to it. It's called an "application menu bar". Just right-click on the desktop, then choose Application Menu Bar from the Add Panel menu.
You can add any widget to any panel. There's no need for wasted space, because you can move stuff around as much as you want.
I use two panels, because adding additional widgets to my dock makes it too cluttered. So, I have a dock at the bottom of the screen, and another panel on the left-hand side with an application menu (which includes Restart, Shutdown, Lock, etc.), a clock, and a system tray (which handles mounting/unmounting drives, Bluetooth connections, volume, and so on). They're both set to "auto-hide" visibility so that they're out of the way when I'm not using them.
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.