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> Also, I've never quite understood what macOS people have against snapping the edges My go to example to explain this is the “The many windows of John Siracu
by ralfd 7y ago
> Also, I've never quite understood what macOS people have against snapping the edges
My go to example to explain this is the “The many windows of
John Siracusa” podcast from ATP a few years ago.
The relevant discussion starts at 1:33:00
https://atp.fm/episodes/96 https://atp.fm/episodes/96
Siracusa, who grew up as a (classic) Mac user, explains his tiling and overlapping habits to Arment and Liss, who grew up as Microsoft Windows users and later switched, and they gasp in utter horror, shock and awe.
For example Siracusa says he currently has a dozen terminal windows open, and also a couple browser windows, normal for him, in BBEdit he regularly hits 20-40; they ask him if he doesn’t know about tabs and he replies “Oh, I love tabs! Of course every Window has many tabs!”. How would he manage/organize hundreds of tabs in multiple applications with a snapping tiling manager? He can’t. It is fun from there. Like, he jokes after a work day (week) his desktop also has “sedimentary layers”.
- sea-shore 7y agoNow I want to see an annotated print screen of his desktop. Spatially organizing the desktop reminds me of Eagle Mode, which kind of works but it gets weird first zooming into the filesystem to then zoom into the menus to find a command to run/open the file. After that it almost sounds like he touches on how the acme editor lays out "windows" in columns for his kill-app that "no one wants", amazing