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I don't miss it. I carefully dragged each window to align just right one time, and never had to redo it since. It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements I use (laptop, laptop + big monitor) so I only had to do the fiddly work once.

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And you've just never, ever, needed to rearrange or move your windows since?

Apple users are that vanilla ;)

For me personally it's not a requirement the snappy window.. Apple is a small walled garden. They don't have wide screens so most of the time one app on the screen is enough. I have an old 27' iMac and it wasn't enough screen space for me to put xcode, terminal and browser next to each other. So the most used mode was split screen mode with xcode and a simulator. But the "split full screen" mode is much better and professional than windows' snappy window feature.

What's the difference between the apple split full screen and the windows tiling?

Windows tiling still keeps you on the overall Desktop, while the split full screen is a separate Desktop altogether with no access to the other applications (without exiting fullscreen).

A few times, I guess.

I might do it more often if I had separate OS windows for code editing. But I use VSCode (and Emacs before that) with 2 or 3 side-by-side panels. I drag those panes wider and narrower frequently.

I tend to setup separate Spaces and put related apps/windows in the same Space. So I have a general/browsing Space, and development Space, a graphics-editing Space, etc. So I don't usually need to move my windows around. Unfortunately when reboot/login restores them, it puts them all in the first Space, so I have to move them, but since I reboot a handful of times a year, it's not a huge problem.

I've defined Cmd-1, Cmd-2, etc. shortcuts to switch spaces like on Linux desktops, which is a lot faster the 3-finger swiping macOS comes with.

> It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements

You're lucky. I didn't even realise this is supposed to happen. Every day I start by moving everything to the correct screen and correct location. It's never remembered and each time windows move to a completely random spot. Things are even worse if I work from a different location for a bit. (Some windows are pseudo-minimised and I have to click the icon a few times to show them again)

It's not even random/occasional. I put slack on the right third of the right display every day. It's never there after sleep or cable reconnection.

That's interesting. I do use Windows with 2 monitors

and I do change placements/sizes of windows constantly - accordingly to the task

I’ve been using Stage Manager on macOS for this. I have groups of apps, each one in a separate “stage” that I switch between to work on different things. Out of all the desktop paradigms I’ve tried, this one is working the best for me

I can constantly see the thumbnail groupings of apps that I can switch to along the left hand side of the screen. I’ve used other modes (like multiple desktops) but would often forget what spaces I had created, and ended up re-creating them without realising

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