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Window management is even greater s*show. To the point that you need 3rd party apps to make it usable.

I actually gave up on having my windows maximized, or side by side, they are now just all overlapping, and its whatever. I try to keep a portion of every window visible on the screen so I can quickly click between them, it looks like a disorganized mess, but it is MY disorganized mess.

err... try "Spectacle"

Rectangle is another great tool in the same vein (and it's still actively being developed)

And even then it doesn't work very well. The problem is the app remains in control, unlike in say Xorg where the window manager has the final say. When I used a Mac I found many apps outright ignored the window manager.

It's absolutely awful. My 2500$ macbook's window processing is at least 10 times slower than my 250$ thinkpad with linux. It's insane that such simple things don't work on such an established and valuable brand.

My 2019 16" Macbook pro drops more animation frames then the aging $400 windows laptop I helped my grandmother use.

The fact that you can’t create a key binding for a window or even name it is ridiculous.

If the app lauching the window is placed as an icon in the task bar, you can pop its window app with Windows + (number of icon, counting from the start menu button). It doesn't work for some misbehaving apps which I guess didn't bother to do proper windows integration (Spyder IDE is one such example), but overall works great.

Wait, what? I never new you could do that! That's a super nice feature.

I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure you can't name windows in Gnome, KDE, and Windows either.

You can change the window title in X, though chances are the window manager will just change it back next time it's refreshed.

    xprop -f _NET_WM_NAME 8u -set _NET_WM_NAME "New Window Name"

I'm not sure why anyone would do this, and I'm also not sure what the GP comment means by "naming windows" anyway. KDE does allow assigning shortcuts to windows, but I've never used this either.

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