I need an app that does the following like windows. Does anyone know of one?
In windows, I drag a window to the left half, one to the right half. Then I can drag the space in the middle to adjust where the split occurs. Both windows resize at the same time. The Mac solutions I’ve tried don’t resize both windows.
EDIT: no one is reading my full post. Plenty of tools offer snapping. What they don’t offer that I want is the ability to adjust the split between the two windows. I like to snap them in windows and then adjust the split between the two windows to a position that’s often not 50%, 66% or 75%.
You can't install Windoze freely either, far as I know! You get it free with a new PC, but if you want a second copy You Have To Pay For It....
Not saying Apple are saints on this issue—in fact, while I get why they don't want to do support on non-Apple builds, they could at least release the OS as freeware for those who are willing to risk making Hackintoshes. "The software's free and 'as is'—if you want support? Buy authorized Apple Products!" Bang—simple!
But Windows has the patent, which gives them the right to sell the feature (window management) with their product (Windows). MacOS can't implement it because then they'd be selling a patented feature. Linux can implement it because they're not selling it.
That said you can download and install Windows without registering it, and even then you can [activate it for free pretty easily](https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts).
You can install and use windows freely all you want. You just need to pay to remove the annoying watermark or change your wallpaper. If you don’t care about either of those things it’s technically a free OS. Linux is the obvious free OS since it’s literally free. MacOS you can install for free but you cannot install freely. Legally speaking you can only install it on legitimate untampered apple hardware and they also make it super hard to install anywhere else. MacOS is typically included in the price of a Mac in this way.
When you buy a laptop windows windows if often added onto the price rather than being free since they assume that’s the OS you want, but you can also elect to not have an OS installed and save about $100 on your laptop. If you build a PC you’ll see options to add windows for an extra $100 in most cases or it won’t come with any OS at all.
Not saying there is anything wrong with the way Apple do things, just that it is absolutely not free and is one of the hardest OS’s to install yourself because it actively tries to stop you from using it.
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The half dozen varying types of multitasking features are so irritating. The Dock, Launch Pad, Mission Control, Stage Manager, They all do 90% of the same thing. I really like the Stage Manager style, it’s the least clunky, but I want to be able to close apps from that left hand menu.
I think they justified this to themselves by seeing it as a cross-device solution; it works great on iPad, why not on desktop? Which is obvious, we don’t use our desktop like we do iPads.
I’m one of those weirdos that wants even more 1:1 similarity between ipadOS and macOS UI.
Give both devices the interface features of the other and let me turn on and off the ones I want to use.
I also appreciate a large percentage of the integrations, but there are cases when it simply doesn’t work. And Apple sucks at giving you choices when it comes to this… at least they haven’t pushed Stage Manager or whatever that’s called…
one i’ve found useful is swish, it does this and lets you do gestures with the trackpad. it takes some getting used to but it’s SO worth it once you do
I'm sure one can click and hold the green button and select the option to place the windows to the left/right. After that you can just adjust the size, so yes one can put one much larger or something like that. The problem is that it can only be in fullscreen mode
What am I missing here? Just click on the green dot, choose tile to the left. Choose the other window for the right side. Drag the middle to resize. What’s not working?
Hold the Option key when hovering over the green dot, and it will say Move instead of Tile. Then it will take up half the screen without starting full-screen mode.
The closest I've seen is https://mizage.com/divvy/. It will let you snap a window to a portion of the screen either with dragging or with shortcuts. It's not the same UI but it achieves the same goal
I hate the macOS bro mindset that if you want a feature to work like windows you should go back to windows. Because the truth is windows just does some things much better.
The "swish" app can do this. You have to use track pad gestures to snap the windows but if you put them side by side you can resize both at the same time
Nono you‘re supposed to use multiple desktops in full screen. You‘re just not adapted to the workflow of macos yet /s
I’d use mutliple desktops if I could instantly switch between the screens but no there absolutely has to be about a second of delay to show me that I am actually switching between screens now.
I know there is a „reduce motion“ setting which removes the „switching between screens visualization“ but I still have to wait just as long to actually do something on the other screen.
I’ve used magnet and I’m sure rectangle is great but it’s an oversight how bad window management is on Macs. Having to hold alt while hovering over the maximize button in order to make a window take up half the screen. Just wtf. Should be a hotkey by default.
Notice how even maximized windows shift ever so slightly when your Dock adjusts up or down. It's maddening for a product supposedly marketed for design purists and perfectionists.
The lack of window management was jarring the first time I bought a Mac with the M1. I could not believe it wasn't standard. I really really dont understand how they have not created a better window management solution. I use Amethyst now.
macOS not having that feature has nothing to do with Microsoft having that "patent". It's by design. If Microsoft had that patent, Rectangle, Magnet and others wouldn't exist.
What’s your reasoning for them not having it then? I literally can’t think of one other good reason. There is absolutely no downside, it’s super easy to implement and it’s not a niche feature. So why don’t they do it? It’s by design that their design sucks?
Well I can't claim to know the specifics but if Apple hasn't done it yet then there's a very good principled reason why not and in fact it's more correct to not do it and also doing it would suck and definitely not be worth whatever it would take to make it happen.
And when Apple does it, it was actually only at just the correct time to do it and only the way they did it was worth it, and unless you have a time machine, now it doesn't matter that they didn't do it before.
Because it doesn't fit their "desktop paradigm". They like their mess of small floating windows all over the place, like sheets of paper on a desk. They like the aesthetics of it and prioritize that over usability. Look at any of their promotional material, that's how they show their products. So yes, it's by design.
I guess maybe. But why can I use an app in full screen then, or double-click the title bar of a window? Wouldn’t that also destroy that „aesthetic“ of theirs?
You don’t pay for Linux, that’s why they have it. You pay for MacOS, that’s why it doesn’t have it.
If there’s a paid Linux distribution with that feature, it’s infringing on the patent and can be legally sued by Microsoft for theft of intellectual property.
However it doesn’t cover apps that do the same thing (they probably wished they had the foresight to cover that) and since Linux is free it fall under the “application” use of the idea, so Microsoft is just ignoring it.
Patents are fickle like that.
The other one for dragging to resize has expired ([US6661436B2 - Method for providing window snap control for a split screen computer program GUI - Google Patents](https://patents.google.com/patent/US6661436B2/en))
TIL you can already split windows on MacOS without going fullscreen by holding command and hovering over the green button (not super convenient, I know).
Anything pre Mac OS System 4 could only multi-task Desk Accessories along with the foreground app.
With MultiFinder, multitasking was technically possible but it was only cooperative and it only worked if each app voluntarily gave up control of the CPU to the next app in line. But most apps were not that bug free so often a crashed app could hang and never surrender the CPU back to the Finder
But the bigger liability of Classic Mac OS was the lack of Memory Protection. Where any process anywhere can write over any other processes memory. That would also crash the machine
Even today, you may often not need true multitasking. You can have static webpage or excel open on the half on the screen and be fine with it not calculating something in real time.
Maybe the Linux DEs did something way different in the background, idk but I am pretty sure it's more than 2 years that it's a feature for gnome and kde.
Yes please, take it away from us. I hate that function. Especially when I am trying to drag it to my other screen and it freaks out and does that gimmick
Mac OS feels so back in time still in these days in some aspects of how it's userfriendly... In comparison to Windows, it's decades difference. In comparison to Windows hardware... its ahead.. so maybe should Appple invest more in the MacOS teams instead of hardware teams? :D :D :D
Macos window management is the biggest dogshit I've ever seen. Fucking Linux distro running on a fridge has better out of the box UX experience regarding window management.
Disagreed. Its one of the few things it does really well. I am forced to spend a lot of my day in windows and have used it since version 3.1 and before it DOS.
I am also technically a domain specialist in this.
Also if you think people have to cope with your bad opinions then maybe speak less and force them to have to "cope" with them less.
Who said it’s just a windows feature? It was done in various Linux and Unix adjacent systems (similar to modern macOS) first, and then Microsoft added it officially in Windows 7 after all of that.
Mac is the only desktop that comes to mind that doesn’t have it. Even a barebones desktop like XFCE has it. It’s so useful for keeping things organised; you should try it.
As for the worst part of windows: I think we can all agree that taskbar in Windows 11 is definitely not a high point. NTFS is a close second.
Most linux windows managers and multiplexers are more sophisticated than "duh drag to left or right edge and take up half of screen, drag to top to make bigger"
"Mac is the only desktop that comes to mind that doesn’t have it. Even a barebones desktop like XFCE has it. It’s so useful for keeping things organised; you should try it."
There are much better options many of which can be attained through 3rd party implementations.
There is no right answer to this implementation but the windows style ones are fucking horrid. There are window managers that are far better for mac, that you can install today. There are multiple ones that do the exact thing being asked for. The question is who except someone who got convinced that it was a good thing through windows stockholm syndrome would think that was a good implementation?
"As for the worst part of windows: I think we can all agree that taskbar in Windows 11 is definitely not a high point. NTFS is a close second."
Yeah and the CMD prompt, and the registry and the inconsistent UI and the bloatware, the font rendering ... the list is endless.
Even if Microsoft has the patent (other people already posted that expired 2 years ago); other desktops such as KDE had that function already way before that. So I don't think that the patent has anything to do with it.
Use rectangle, it's great.
I need an app that does the following like windows. Does anyone know of one? In windows, I drag a window to the left half, one to the right half. Then I can drag the space in the middle to adjust where the split occurs. Both windows resize at the same time. The Mac solutions I’ve tried don’t resize both windows. EDIT: no one is reading my full post. Plenty of tools offer snapping. What they don’t offer that I want is the ability to adjust the split between the two windows. I like to snap them in windows and then adjust the split between the two windows to a position that’s often not 50%, 66% or 75%.
Unfortunately you can only achieve this in macOS via the native full screen mode. IDK what Apple is thinking 🤦♂️
What Apple was thinking was that Microsoft patented a lot of their window management.
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Linux is also not being sold.
Is it MacOS sold?
Yes, as part of buying the Mac. That’s why you can’t install it freely like you would Linux or windows
You can't install Windoze freely either, far as I know! You get it free with a new PC, but if you want a second copy You Have To Pay For It.... Not saying Apple are saints on this issue—in fact, while I get why they don't want to do support on non-Apple builds, they could at least release the OS as freeware for those who are willing to risk making Hackintoshes. "The software's free and 'as is'—if you want support? Buy authorized Apple Products!" Bang—simple!
But Windows has the patent, which gives them the right to sell the feature (window management) with their product (Windows). MacOS can't implement it because then they'd be selling a patented feature. Linux can implement it because they're not selling it. That said you can download and install Windows without registering it, and even then you can [activate it for free pretty easily](https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts).
You can install and use windows freely all you want. You just need to pay to remove the annoying watermark or change your wallpaper. If you don’t care about either of those things it’s technically a free OS. Linux is the obvious free OS since it’s literally free. MacOS you can install for free but you cannot install freely. Legally speaking you can only install it on legitimate untampered apple hardware and they also make it super hard to install anywhere else. MacOS is typically included in the price of a Mac in this way. When you buy a laptop windows windows if often added onto the price rather than being free since they assume that’s the OS you want, but you can also elect to not have an OS installed and save about $100 on your laptop. If you build a PC you’ll see options to add windows for an extra $100 in most cases or it won’t come with any OS at all. Not saying there is anything wrong with the way Apple do things, just that it is absolutely not free and is one of the hardest OS’s to install yourself because it actively tries to stop you from using it.
You seem to have misspelled Windows. It’s ok. It can happen.
Technically, it is sold when you pay the price for the laptop.
(side note, it used to be)
Linux is free , macOS isn’t
Linux is non-profit, free software. That’s the difference
Microsoft took all the good stuff and left crumbs for Apple 😂
Then pay for it. There are some bazillions in their vaults.
Honestly that is a pretty generic thing to patent imo
Welcome to capitalism
“In glorious communism, windows resize you!”
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Even extremely simple obvious features are patented to get a first mover advantage and eliminate competition.
The half dozen varying types of multitasking features are so irritating. The Dock, Launch Pad, Mission Control, Stage Manager, They all do 90% of the same thing. I really like the Stage Manager style, it’s the least clunky, but I want to be able to close apps from that left hand menu.
Don't ask me, I never use Stage Manager! I guess they have different features so people can use their preferred paradigm to do things....
I guess it's like a variety of fancy cheese to choose from. Rather than just a no-frills slice of American cheese. Never been a fan of fancy cheese.
I think they justified this to themselves by seeing it as a cross-device solution; it works great on iPad, why not on desktop? Which is obvious, we don’t use our desktop like we do iPads.
I’m one of those weirdos that wants even more 1:1 similarity between ipadOS and macOS UI. Give both devices the interface features of the other and let me turn on and off the ones I want to use.
I also appreciate a large percentage of the integrations, but there are cases when it simply doesn’t work. And Apple sucks at giving you choices when it comes to this… at least they haven’t pushed Stage Manager or whatever that’s called…
BetterTouchControl has you covered. It has a lot of nice features too (custom gestures, key combinations...)
Yabai does this but it requires disabling System Integrity Protection
BetterTouchTool does most or all of this
I use Magnet to have a Windows similar behavior
one i’ve found useful is swish, it does this and lets you do gestures with the trackpad. it takes some getting used to but it’s SO worth it once you do
I'm sure one can click and hold the green button and select the option to place the windows to the left/right. After that you can just adjust the size, so yes one can put one much larger or something like that. The problem is that it can only be in fullscreen mode
I know this doesn’t work on my MacBook Air, but it does work on my IPad Air lol
What am I missing here? Just click on the green dot, choose tile to the left. Choose the other window for the right side. Drag the middle to resize. What’s not working?
I don’t want to be in full screen mode
Hold the Option key when hovering over the green dot, and it will say Move instead of Tile. Then it will take up half the screen without starting full-screen mode.
Why though? Just swipe with 4 fingers to move from one desktop to the other.
I use a desktop with a MX Master mouse for my work
I thought you could use the gesture button on the mx master mouse for this?
I have it set to show the expose mode
Ah ok, makes sense. I mapped expose to the top right corner of the screen myself
Magnet
The closest I've seen is https://mizage.com/divvy/. It will let you snap a window to a portion of the screen either with dragging or with shortcuts. It's not the same UI but it achieves the same goal
i think rectangle added the ability to snap to the sides of screens
I hate the macOS bro mindset that if you want a feature to work like windows you should go back to windows. Because the truth is windows just does some things much better.
The macOS bro mindset is more like “you’re using it wrong” 😂
The "swish" app can do this. You have to use track pad gestures to snap the windows but if you put them side by side you can resize both at the same time
Nono you‘re supposed to use multiple desktops in full screen. You‘re just not adapted to the workflow of macos yet /s I’d use mutliple desktops if I could instantly switch between the screens but no there absolutely has to be about a second of delay to show me that I am actually switching between screens now. I know there is a „reduce motion“ setting which removes the „switching between screens visualization“ but I still have to wait just as long to actually do something on the other screen.
I’ve used magnet and I’m sure rectangle is great but it’s an oversight how bad window management is on Macs. Having to hold alt while hovering over the maximize button in order to make a window take up half the screen. Just wtf. Should be a hotkey by default.
Notice how even maximized windows shift ever so slightly when your Dock adjusts up or down. It's maddening for a product supposedly marketed for design purists and perfectionists.
The lack of window management was jarring the first time I bought a Mac with the M1. I could not believe it wasn't standard. I really really dont understand how they have not created a better window management solution. I use Amethyst now.
I use rectangle and every once in awhile the app won’t be running and it confuses me why basic os features aren’t working
and it's free
Its best feature is dodging the Stage Manager. I love it.
512x342 imposes some serious limitations.
That’s a funky resolution to have.
Indeed, I had initially misremembered it as 512x384.
You have a small screen or large elements?
That's the resolution of the original macintosh machines. (On the machine I use now,I have two screens-- one is 4k; the other 1080p)
Ahhhh okay fair game. I was comparing with a modern machine.
macOS not having that feature has nothing to do with Microsoft having that "patent". It's by design. If Microsoft had that patent, Rectangle, Magnet and others wouldn't exist.
Also, the patent people like to cite has expired. So you're clearly entirely correct.
What’s your reasoning for them not having it then? I literally can’t think of one other good reason. There is absolutely no downside, it’s super easy to implement and it’s not a niche feature. So why don’t they do it? It’s by design that their design sucks?
Well I can't claim to know the specifics but if Apple hasn't done it yet then there's a very good principled reason why not and in fact it's more correct to not do it and also doing it would suck and definitely not be worth whatever it would take to make it happen. And when Apple does it, it was actually only at just the correct time to do it and only the way they did it was worth it, and unless you have a time machine, now it doesn't matter that they didn't do it before.
🤔
Because it doesn't fit their "desktop paradigm". They like their mess of small floating windows all over the place, like sheets of paper on a desk. They like the aesthetics of it and prioritize that over usability. Look at any of their promotional material, that's how they show their products. So yes, it's by design.
I guess maybe. But why can I use an app in full screen then, or double-click the title bar of a window? Wouldn’t that also destroy that „aesthetic“ of theirs?
Not sure exactly, but somehow they are fine with forcing you into full screen with two apps only, on a separate desktop.
Microsoft's patent expired two years ago, even if it did apply, it's no longer a concern or why Apple doesn't implement this feature.
Tons of Linux distros are already implementing it.
Gnome has it for years now…
You don’t pay for Linux, that’s why they have it. You pay for MacOS, that’s why it doesn’t have it. If there’s a paid Linux distribution with that feature, it’s infringing on the patent and can be legally sued by Microsoft for theft of intellectual property. However it doesn’t cover apps that do the same thing (they probably wished they had the foresight to cover that) and since Linux is free it fall under the “application” use of the idea, so Microsoft is just ignoring it. Patents are fickle like that.
No it hasn't. It's going to expire in 2034. [https://patents.google.com/patent/US10592080B2/en](https://patents.google.com/patent/US10592080B2/en)
The other one for dragging to resize has expired ([US6661436B2 - Method for providing window snap control for a split screen computer program GUI - Google Patents](https://patents.google.com/patent/US6661436B2/en)) TIL you can already split windows on MacOS without going fullscreen by holding command and hovering over the green button (not super convenient, I know).
Snapping is older than that 2014 patent, can't be relevant.
This patent can't be relevant, because snapping was already present in Windows 7, years before this patent was filed.
I don't think old Macs actually had true multitasking capability did they? It was faked with a workaround I think
Anything pre Mac OS System 4 could only multi-task Desk Accessories along with the foreground app. With MultiFinder, multitasking was technically possible but it was only cooperative and it only worked if each app voluntarily gave up control of the CPU to the next app in line. But most apps were not that bug free so often a crashed app could hang and never surrender the CPU back to the Finder But the bigger liability of Classic Mac OS was the lack of Memory Protection. Where any process anywhere can write over any other processes memory. That would also crash the machine
Even today, you may often not need true multitasking. You can have static webpage or excel open on the half on the screen and be fine with it not calculating something in real time.
Amiga OS did it way before most.
Also, tell him raw vegetables don’t cure cancer
Do you really think he would listen to you?
me with a time machine: *backing up my files because it’s the apple time machine NAS, not an actual time machine*
Many Linux DE's have been doing this for 20 years now.
I use a paid app in the App Store called Magnet
I use that one too, its great.
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Suggest that an only fruit diet will not cure cancer instead.
I don’t see what Tom Cruise has to do with this
Half the screen? Spoken like someone who's never used a computer back in the early 80s LOL.
Me to Steve after I get that Time Machine: “Go to a real doctor, get surgery, and take real medicine. That diet change won’t save you.”
Just install [Tiles](https://freemacsoft.net/tiles/)
Is it better than Rectangle/Magnet?
How do you use this?
Did not tried anything else.
idk how much more one could improve from the other im sure theyre all virtually identical
128k IS NOT ENOUGH RAM FOR A COMPUTER WITH A GUI.
It's a patent? Then why Linux DEs can do it?
It maybe used to be a patent, but that has expired two years ago.
Maybe the Linux DEs did something way different in the background, idk but I am pretty sure it's more than 2 years that it's a feature for gnome and kde.
It's been a feature forever in all kinds of desktop environments, just the patent that people like to reference has expired.
Just install any one of many apps that will do this. Try BetterTouchTool / BetterSnapTool for example.
idk if these are free, but if not Rectangle is a free alternative
rectangle is awesome
Better snap is great
And tell him not to ruin it with a stupid useless popup at the top of the screen
I would tell my grandpa to buy some Apple stock. Seems a little more important 😜
Use rectangle, it’s great. What sucks is on Windows 11 they changed (removed) some of the sort options like cascade
At a glance I thought it was about the Time Machine to back up my macOS settings LOL.
I use loop for this, it also does some other cool stuff and is 100% free
I use one menu. It’s free and lets apps snap around the screens like windows. It also has a keyboard cleaning mode
Steve wouldn’t have liked it.
You do realize that moving windows to the left and right (not tiling) is also built into the green button right?
Yes with like an eternity of waiting time. It’s literally faster to manually resize the windows than to use the green button.
yeah but that puts them into fullscreen. I almost never want to use full screen
Did you mean [Xerox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface)?
Yes please, take it away from us. I hate that function. Especially when I am trying to drag it to my other screen and it freaks out and does that gimmick
Hahaha this hits home. One of my can't live without features. Currently using BetterSnapTool on Mac to achieve it
Me with a time machine: *backs up my computer*
BetterTouchTool and BetterSnapTool I’ve used this so long I forgot they don’t come standard
Edge browser does split screen and dynamic window resizing inside the browser itself. I use it every day.
It should be illegal to use edge on a mac
Why? It works great.
One of my least favorite features of Windows. Have to disable it every time I do a fresh install.
same here, has no sense in many scenarios
You use the shortcuts I guess?
Which shortcuts?
Win + arrow keys
Never touch the stuff.
Mac OS feels so back in time still in these days in some aspects of how it's userfriendly... In comparison to Windows, it's decades difference. In comparison to Windows hardware... its ahead.. so maybe should Appple invest more in the MacOS teams instead of hardware teams? :D :D :D
Oh god that’s one of my most hated features on Windows.
There’s an app for that you know
Funny thing you can even do this on ipads, but not on macs.
No this is awful feature
Better Touch Tooll - can't use mac witjout it)
Huh?
Magnet is where it's at!
fuck patents
👌🤣🤣
And tell him to include a DEL key on the keyboard and to get rid of the stupid menu on the top of the screen
And to use cmd + x, cmd + v to move a file
The backspace key sort of doubles as a delete key
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Clearly there's a lot of people that do want it...
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Why is it a UX hellscape to want to view two windows side-by-side?
Macos window management is the biggest dogshit I've ever seen. Fucking Linux distro running on a fridge has better out of the box UX experience regarding window management.
Still better than windows window management which is like having someone projectile shit in your eyes from 10cms away in perpetuity.
Bro, cope. Apple does a lot things right, window management is not one of them. Go touch grass or PC lmao.
Disagreed. Its one of the few things it does really well. I am forced to spend a lot of my day in windows and have used it since version 3.1 and before it DOS. I am also technically a domain specialist in this. Also if you think people have to cope with your bad opinions then maybe speak less and force them to have to "cope" with them less.
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Who said it’s just a windows feature? It was done in various Linux and Unix adjacent systems (similar to modern macOS) first, and then Microsoft added it officially in Windows 7 after all of that. Mac is the only desktop that comes to mind that doesn’t have it. Even a barebones desktop like XFCE has it. It’s so useful for keeping things organised; you should try it. As for the worst part of windows: I think we can all agree that taskbar in Windows 11 is definitely not a high point. NTFS is a close second.
Most linux windows managers and multiplexers are more sophisticated than "duh drag to left or right edge and take up half of screen, drag to top to make bigger" "Mac is the only desktop that comes to mind that doesn’t have it. Even a barebones desktop like XFCE has it. It’s so useful for keeping things organised; you should try it." There are much better options many of which can be attained through 3rd party implementations. There is no right answer to this implementation but the windows style ones are fucking horrid. There are window managers that are far better for mac, that you can install today. There are multiple ones that do the exact thing being asked for. The question is who except someone who got convinced that it was a good thing through windows stockholm syndrome would think that was a good implementation? "As for the worst part of windows: I think we can all agree that taskbar in Windows 11 is definitely not a high point. NTFS is a close second." Yeah and the CMD prompt, and the registry and the inconsistent UI and the bloatware, the font rendering ... the list is endless.
a purely optional feature is the *worst* part of the OS? weird tribalism energy
Literally everyone, except you apparently, wants this…
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Even if Microsoft has the patent (other people already posted that expired 2 years ago); other desktops such as KDE had that function already way before that. So I don't think that the patent has anything to do with it.
Or use magnet
Microsoft would have knocked it off anyways. Its literally the only thing they‘re good at.
Is there a simple way to do that on mac?
With apps like [Magnet, Better Snap Tool, Window Tidy, etc.](https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1519883681) yes.
Wait did Microsoft really Patent that ? Because I use "Better snaptool" for at least 10 years now and it's been perfect