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Not just on phones/tablets. If you have an application running in dark mode, and your Windows desktop is dark, you can't see the edge of the window to resize it. Also - with Windows 10 you don't grab the edge of the window, you grab the shadow. Which is not visible because shadows on dark desktops have no contrast.

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In another well-known OS, the pointer can be somewhere inside the corner, and you can press a meta key and click and drag the corner without being on it exactly.

I used to miss that functionality quite a bit when using Windows, but I think I use window snapping more now.

I loved that too! I use AltDrag[0] to get that functionality in Windows. It's a bit old and you may have to tweak it a bit to make it work with HiDPI, but it's now become a must-install when I set up a new machine.

[0] https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

AltDrag is amazing. Plus it's becoming a necessity because the window bar is now getting filled with elements too, so you can't rely on being able to use it to drag windows around by clicking and holding on any spot in the bar.

there's a new fork that is supposedly more up to date. (i dont use windows anymore though so i hasn't used it myself)

https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltDrag

Hip drop shadows and hip dark mode just don’t mix. Adding a dark mode after the fact is about as fun as writing tests for legacy code.

I would expect windows in dark mode to I guess have a subtle lighting behind them (as people sometimes do to objects in physical space).

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