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The dumbest windows feature? When you accidentally touch the top of a window to top of screen, it maximizes. On Mac it's sort of the opposite: you can't relocat

The dumbest windows feature? When you accidentally touch the top of a window to top of screen, it maximizes. On Mac it's sort of the opposite: you can't relocate a window to another screen if it's maximizes. It "helps" you by force partitioning the screen.

philliphaydon 7y ago
Huh, how is that 'dumb'? Resize a window and drag it to the top will increase total height of screen. Drag a window to the top and it maximizes. Drag to left to dock to left side. (repeat for right side) Drag to top left to dock to top left corner. (repeat for all corners) Win+Arrow (Up) to full screen. Win+Arrow (Down) to un-full screen. Down again to minimum. Win+Shift+Arrow (left/right) to change screen. Win+Arrow (left/right) to move between docking left/right. On a mac you cannot even maximum a window properly, and works differently in different apps. Window management is terrible on a mac. The only window management it does right is the way it handles the virtual desktops. Cos that still sucks on Windows.
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 7y ago
  >On a mac you cannot even maximum a window properly Indeed, to actually maximize a window on macOS, you have to purchase a third party app (BetterSnapTool). I think it's hilarious.
  - filleduchaos 7y ago
    I'm not quite sure what you mean by this - my windows seem to maximize just fine
    - pluma 7y ago
      It's a fairly new thing. https://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/how-to-maximize-a-window-in-mac-like-you-do-in-windows/ https://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/how-to-maximize-a-windo... ("fairly new" in this case meaning over five years but still)
      - philliphaydon 7y ago
        It doesn’t work in every app. It doesn’t even work in a lot of apples own apps... you hold shift and click in 1 app, it works, try it in another app and it only resize vertically and not horizontally.
        filleduchaos 7y ago
        I suppose I've never really felt the need to "maximise" a window as opposed to putting it in fullscreen.
  - thecatspaw 7y ago
    or press alt and click the + symbol.
  - janlaureys 7y ago
    I use Hammerspoon which is a free tool that lets you run custom Lua scripts. Got a lot of keyboard shortcuts for moving windows around.
- elamje 7y ago
  Magnet on MacOS is totally worth the purchase. Gives the best window snapping I’ve found between Mac, Windows and Linux.
batiudrami 7y ago
This is a good feature and I use it every single day. But you can turn it off in Settings > Multitasking > Snap windows
hnick 7y ago
Sticky corners (with 2 monitors) annoy me more. Drag your mouse pointer to the top corner of the screen, trying to take it to the next monitor - nope, it gets stuck. It goes from annoying to very frustrating when I am trying to click at the top left of the window on my 2nd screen, but someone at MS decided the mouse will get stuck on the X and close my current window instead. I have very good mouse accuracy from years of computing (and video games), so I can click very accurately and this would always catch me off guard until I slowed down my own actions to double check where the pointer is.
- justinclift 7y ago
  In Win7 several of the mouse behaviours like this can be disabled in Control Panel -> Ease of Access Center -> Make the mouse easier to use. (Seems to be targeted for people with disabilities, but heck... if that's what it takes to disable this crap.) Win 10 will likely have something equivalent.
  - hnick 7y ago
    There is a setting, but it's not very fine grained and turning it off also turns off other useful settings. I can't remember which exactly, I just know I reverted fairly quickly since it was even more annoying.
    - justinclift 7y ago
      In Win7, the one I was thinking of is called "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen". That one seems to be pretty specific, and for me is very useful. KDE has a similar thing, which can also be disabled. Only thing I haven't figured out with KDE (yet) is how to disable automatically maximising a window after dragging it from the non-primary display to the primary one. That's pretty annoying too. :/

philliphaydon 7y ago

Huh, how is that 'dumb'? Resize a window and drag it to the top will increase total height of screen. Drag a window to the top and it maximizes. Drag to left to dock to left side. (repeat for right side) Drag to top left to dock to top left corner. (repeat for all corners) Win+Arrow (Up) to full screen. Win+Arrow (Down) to un-full screen. Down again to minimum. Win+Shift+Arrow (left/right) to change screen. Win+Arrow (left/right) to move between docking left/right. On a mac you cannot even maximum a window properly, and works differently in different apps. Window management is terrible on a mac. The only window management it does right is the way it handles the virtual desktops. Cos that still sucks on Windows.

xeeeeeeeeeeenu 7y ago
>On a mac you cannot even maximum a window properly Indeed, to actually maximize a window on macOS, you have to purchase a third party app (BetterSnapTool). I think it's hilarious.
- filleduchaos 7y ago
  I'm not quite sure what you mean by this - my windows seem to maximize just fine
  - pluma 7y ago
    It's a fairly new thing. https://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/how-to-maximize-a-window-in-mac-like-you-do-in-windows/ https://www.addictivetips.com/mac-os/how-to-maximize-a-windo... ("fairly new" in this case meaning over five years but still)
    - philliphaydon 7y ago
      It doesn’t work in every app. It doesn’t even work in a lot of apples own apps... you hold shift and click in 1 app, it works, try it in another app and it only resize vertically and not horizontally.
      - filleduchaos 7y ago
        I suppose I've never really felt the need to "maximise" a window as opposed to putting it in fullscreen.
- thecatspaw 7y ago
  or press alt and click the + symbol.
- janlaureys 7y ago
  I use Hammerspoon which is a free tool that lets you run custom Lua scripts. Got a lot of keyboard shortcuts for moving windows around.
elamje 7y ago
Magnet on MacOS is totally worth the purchase. Gives the best window snapping I’ve found between Mac, Windows and Linux.

batiudrami 7y ago

This is a good feature and I use it every single day. But you can turn it off in Settings > Multitasking > Snap windows

hnick 7y ago

Sticky corners (with 2 monitors) annoy me more. Drag your mouse pointer to the top corner of the screen, trying to take it to the next monitor - nope, it gets stuck. It goes from annoying to very frustrating when I am trying to click at the top left of the window on my 2nd screen, but someone at MS decided the mouse will get stuck on the X and close my current window instead. I have very good mouse accuracy from years of computing (and video games), so I can click very accurately and this would always catch me off guard until I slowed down my own actions to double check where the pointer is.

justinclift 7y ago
In Win7 several of the mouse behaviours like this can be disabled in Control Panel -> Ease of Access Center -> Make the mouse easier to use. (Seems to be targeted for people with disabilities, but heck... if that's what it takes to disable this crap.) Win 10 will likely have something equivalent.
- hnick 7y ago
  There is a setting, but it's not very fine grained and turning it off also turns off other useful settings. I can't remember which exactly, I just know I reverted fairly quickly since it was even more annoying.
  - justinclift 7y ago
    In Win7, the one I was thinking of is called "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen". That one seems to be pretty specific, and for me is very useful. KDE has a similar thing, which can also be disabled. Only thing I haven't figured out with KDE (yet) is how to disable automatically maximising a window after dragging it from the non-primary display to the primary one. That's pretty annoying too. :/