[Slikey]

Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?

[adam_arthur]

Out of the box windows management for MacOS is much worse than Windows, so not sure I follow? Power Toys does make Windows 10x better though... and they really should make it the default once it's fully stable.

I used to prefer MacOS for development, but Windows has far surpassed it in recent years, between native linux experience in WSL and better QOL tooling via Power Toys. The removal of vertical taskbar has been pretty annoying though... pretty awful on a 49" monitor. All that's left now is to get some 5nm chips in Windows machines

[Zardoz84]

Simply try a native Linux install. You will find far better that "our way or the highway" behavior of Windows and OSX .

[ChuckNorris89]

Can you explain your claim?

For me, Windows 11 has one of the best window management experiences out of the box, far ahead of MacOS and in line Linux.

The ease of resizing, snapping and tiling windows out of the box is really well implemented in Windows 11 so I really don't get your claim.

[sascha_sl]

Features that take advantage of multiple desktops are nonexistent. I don't think a tool to assign applications to specific desktops exists even outside the built-in stuff. And setting 1-2 apps as full-screen desktop is something I really liked about macOS that's not available. Before Windows 11, desktops didn't even have unique wallpapers.

[dagw]

How do you figure? As someone who recently switched to Mac I found that the out of the box windows management on Windows was far superior to MacOS. I needed to install a whole bunch of third part tools to make MacOS usable.

[haswell]

I agree that window management is poor in vanilla macOS. But fixing this just involves choosing a single tool, e.g. Moom, Magnet, etc.

Out of curiosity, what other tools do you use?

I do find this a bit annoying, but on the other hand, it gives me some flexibility to choose the style of window management I prefer through choice of utility.

[alar44]

No, but there is probably some law of the universe that states if there is a thread about Windows, a neckbeard must say that some feature of Windows is the worst thing ever.

I've actually never heard anyone mention Windows windows manager because the only people in the world who care don't use Windows.

[mdavis6890]

I think Windows window management is better than Mac, and I use both (and Linux too) throughout every day.

[pizza]

I just want tmux splits at the operating system UI framework level that works across all operating systems without any hassle. Basically i3wm for Linux, Mac, and Windows, with the same keyboard shortcuts.

[Deltitt]

I would like to have multiple desktops like MacOS but windows has snaps which MacOS doesn't has.

While I like my awesome more on a laptop, every is can be configured one way or the other to feel similar across OSes.

[megaman821]

Windows does have multiple desktops. Win+Tab to add and move between them.

[InvaderFizz]

In case you are unaware, there are multiple snapping utilities for macOS.

I use BetterTouchTool, but there are many tools that accomplish the same thing as far as window snapping is concerned.

Here is an article that goes over many options: https://techwiser.com/snap-windows-on-macos

[readams]

Windows does have multiple desktops. It was new in win10 I believe.