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"Manual window management is awful. Windows 8 ditched windows in favor of fullscreen apps." Wrong. Manual windows management is just what a professional needs.

"Manual window management is awful. Windows 8 ditched windows in favor of fullscreen apps." Wrong. Manual windows management is just what a professional needs. The window manager will never know what is the best position and size for your programming editor/environment. It will never know where is the best position and size for your preferred debug window. And how to place and size your browser windows for API documentation. Sure, a typical computer user needs only a full-screen browser window. But when you're really trying to get work done, Microsoft's "new" concepts are just wrong.

aw3c2 13y ago
Manual window management on Windows can be awful. With decent window managers one can hold keys (alt in my case) and then drag or resize windows easily by dragging the mouse. They snap. And you can have more key combos for things like snap to left/right, maximise, minimise, always in front, etc. Ever since getting used to this (in XFCE), using windows in Windows feels incredibly annoying and infuriating.
- 72deluxe 13y ago
  Windows 7 onwards has keyboard shortcuts - WinKey + cursors moves the windows to snap to half of the screen (top, bottom, left, right) and learn the Alt-Space-then X to maximise and Alt-Space then R to restore. If you happy using the mouse, Windows snap to the edges of the screen. There is also a utility you can get for shortcuts very similar to the Mac OSX ShiftIt tool but I can't remember the name of it!
  - abraxasz 13y ago
    There are many of them. I use Spectacle. You can move windows to the right / left / top / bottom, maximize it, send it to another monitor, etc..
  - skriticos2 13y ago
    I like the Ubuntu version where Alt-Space-X does maximize and restore (depending on current state). One shortcut less to learn.
    - ygra 13y ago
      Well, that'd be Win+↑ for maximize and Win+↓ for restore/minimize on Windows (contrary to what your parent writes, there is no built-in shortcut of making a window take up the top half of a screen).
- jzzskijj 13y ago
  Yes, you're right. It can be awful in Windows. But on the other hand, when I place my windows to their correct locations (on Fluxbox or Win7), it might take weeks or months before I have to relocate them again.

aw3c2 13y ago

Manual window management on Windows can be awful. With decent window managers one can hold keys (alt in my case) and then drag or resize windows easily by dragging the mouse. They snap. And you can have more key combos for things like snap to left/right, maximise, minimise, always in front, etc. Ever since getting used to this (in XFCE), using windows in Windows feels incredibly annoying and infuriating.

72deluxe 13y ago
Windows 7 onwards has keyboard shortcuts - WinKey + cursors moves the windows to snap to half of the screen (top, bottom, left, right) and learn the Alt-Space-then X to maximise and Alt-Space then R to restore. If you happy using the mouse, Windows snap to the edges of the screen. There is also a utility you can get for shortcuts very similar to the Mac OSX ShiftIt tool but I can't remember the name of it!
- abraxasz 13y ago
  There are many of them. I use Spectacle. You can move windows to the right / left / top / bottom, maximize it, send it to another monitor, etc..
- skriticos2 13y ago
  I like the Ubuntu version where Alt-Space-X does maximize and restore (depending on current state). One shortcut less to learn.
  - ygra 13y ago
    Well, that'd be Win+↑ for maximize and Win+↓ for restore/minimize on Windows (contrary to what your parent writes, there is no built-in shortcut of making a window take up the top half of a screen).
jzzskijj 13y ago
Yes, you're right. It can be awful in Windows. But on the other hand, when I place my windows to their correct locations (on Fluxbox or Win7), it might take weeks or months before I have to relocate them again.