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As a .NET developer for 20+ years I’m down to my last Windows box - a gaming rig I pretend I have time to play on. Everything else is a Mac.

hu3 1y ago
mac window management is borderline unusable and I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it. Looking at Tahoe, seems things are getting worse.
- GeekyBear 1y ago
  Mac window management using gestures has been miles ahead of anything available in Windows for over a decade.
  - bigyabai 1y ago
    That's news to me. I've got a Magic Trackpad right in front of me and I'm still using it to tile windows into corners.
  - Atlas26 1y ago
    Hasn’t been true for years now as a 10+ year mac and windows user
- philistine 1y ago
  > I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it Are you installing those tools regularly? I have a couple of invisible helper apps but Time Machine backups and Mac-to-Mac Migration Assistant has made those apps transparent. They're always there. But you know what, I think I know where you are mentally. I was there 2 years after I first bought a Mac. I wanted a clean Mac. Nothing untoward, nothing that wasn't Apple. I got rid of that feeling and learned to love the Mac as a platform, to love the Mac because of its vibrant third-party developers. That's why I use a Mac even though Apple is often a bad steward of this wonderful bicycle for the mind.
- bashwizard 1y ago
  Raycast is all I need. AeroSpace if tiling windows is your thing.
- mschuster91 1y ago
  > mac window management is borderline unusable and I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it. There's exactly two you need to get macOS eye-on-eye with Windows: Hyperswitch for an alt-tab that actually works and SizeUp to get a "window arrangement like Windows with Win+arrow keys". Further migration pains can be eased with a Windows keyboard layout bringing special characters to where they belong in muscle memory (that however can and will bring pains with anything Adobe, their apps absolutely do not like non-Apple keyboard layouts and will refuse to load keyboard command presets) and Karabiner to map Ctrl+C/V to reduce hand strain.

hu3 1y ago

mac window management is borderline unusable and I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it. Looking at Tahoe, seems things are getting worse.

GeekyBear 1y ago
Mac window management using gestures has been miles ahead of anything available in Windows for over a decade.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  That's news to me. I've got a Magic Trackpad right in front of me and I'm still using it to tile windows into corners.
- Atlas26 1y ago
  Hasn’t been true for years now as a 10+ year mac and windows user
philistine 1y ago
> I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it Are you installing those tools regularly? I have a couple of invisible helper apps but Time Machine backups and Mac-to-Mac Migration Assistant has made those apps transparent. They're always there. But you know what, I think I know where you are mentally. I was there 2 years after I first bought a Mac. I wanted a clean Mac. Nothing untoward, nothing that wasn't Apple. I got rid of that feeling and learned to love the Mac as a platform, to love the Mac because of its vibrant third-party developers. That's why I use a Mac even though Apple is often a bad steward of this wonderful bicycle for the mind.
bashwizard 1y ago
Raycast is all I need. AeroSpace if tiling windows is your thing.
mschuster91 1y ago
> mac window management is borderline unusable and I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it. There's exactly two you need to get macOS eye-on-eye with Windows: Hyperswitch for an alt-tab that actually works and SizeUp to get a "window arrangement like Windows with Win+arrow keys". Further migration pains can be eased with a Windows keyboard layout bringing special characters to where they belong in muscle memory (that however can and will bring pains with anything Adobe, their apps absolutely do not like non-Apple keyboard layouts and will refuse to load keyboard command presets) and Karabiner to map Ctrl+C/V to reduce hand strain.