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I believed the same thing until I try a tiling manager on Linux (i3). And today, Mac and Windows annoying. I have the feeling to lose my time each time I perform a simple task.

I also dream of a mobile OS as smooth and fast as i3. Android is anti-productive for me, and, as strange as this may sound, the mobile OS ergonomically closest to my i3 experience is Windows Phone.

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It isn't even just tiling managers. As a user of a "traditional" floating window manager I find the Mac window manager painfully inadequate. There are some programs that will help but they don't make it nearly as pleasant to use as KDE, GNOME or any other DE I have tried on linux.

I made myself a set of shortcuts using Hammerspoon so that I could push windows to each of the 4 screen corners as 1/4 width, push to left half or right half of screen, or make full screen. This is really enough of the tiling WM experience (I had come from Xmonad) for the majority of situations.

Check out spectacle[0] for the same functionality. It can run in the background, so gives you a set of customizable shortcuts to move winds (e.g. half screen right, left, top, bottom among many others) while being purely invisible.

0: https://www.spectacleapp.com

I guess I don't use OSX the same way, but in Windows I really miss Alt-Win to move and resize windows that I use in Linux quite a bit. I tried plugins for Windows, but they just don't work reliably.

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