That's why people always use fullscreen in mac. Because window just don't really work well. The only time I ever use window is dragging file from finder to vscode. Because mac is dumb enough that don't allow drag happen between different desktop. (Or I would just drag file from finder to vscode on different screen)
Who are these people? I absolutely hate fullscreen in macOS and literally only use it for fullscreen videos and the like. What part of the window doesn't work well?
The alignment, it don't even support snapping, place two windows side by side properly is just like impossible, and the + on window go fullscreen unless you hold opt.
You can't just swipe to switch between window. You can only swipe between desktop.
I'd wonder which part in mac's window manager actually works well (compares to other desktop manager)?
Swiping up with 4 fingers will display all windows for you to select the one you want. Then CMD+TAB or CMD+` if you want to cycle.
Like macOS by default might not be exactly fitting for everyone, but surely it works well enough for 99.999% of the population.
And coming from Linux users who love customizability... I mean there are multiple ways to make it work exactly as you want. I have snapping, and multiple gestures to position and resize exactly to my liking, through BetterTouchTool. And I am a very light user.
with fullscreen, you just swipe left and right without even touch the keyboard, moving the cursor or look at screen to pick window you want as long as you remembered the order.
The window experience is really scuffed on mac compares to the fullscreen/desktop workflow (and apple even decides to swap maximize with go fullscreen because they expect you to use it so you need hold opt if you want to maximize.)
I highly doubt where the 99.999% comes given apple itself don't really recommend it.
For full screen to work as you you’d have to have all of your applications full screen, more or less. I just don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone who used it as their main way of working.
Not sure I follow what you mean by Apple not recommending it. Recommending what?
> place two windows side by side properly is just like impossible
macOS has supported automatic snapping while dragging windows for years now. Just drag it slowly when you're approaching the edge of the other window and the window you're dragging will snap to it
I like window snapping when I'm using linux and I like opening apps in full screen on a mac, just like I do when I'm using a phone or a tablet. On windows the application window is the application instance, on MacOS the application instance is still running even though you closed the window. I think this is what throws people off when they switch from Windows to Mac. They're used to doing things a certain way and when it doesn't work that way they complain that it's "broken."
It's like me saying Windows is broken because I have to install an app to use SSH, or because I can't just go to internet explorer and type vnc://.
