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I use Magnet which is sweet. https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/

Also Rectangle, which I moved to from Divvy: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

I use this too, but y’all are missing the point. I should not need third party tools like Rectangle and Mos to manage applications for an OS.

I’d much rather have this functionality built in than have a dozen new emojis every year.

Why not? I dislike the Windows snapping behaviour for halves. Most macOS casual users won't need it. These apps work great and allow a lot of customisability that an OS-level snap might not provide. I'm but sure having it built in would be all upshots.

I’ve got a work-issued MacBook Pro but it didn’t come with macOS Pro, must’ve been an honest mistake.

Ya sure, there’s no one app fits all situations. But the issue here is that there’s literally nothing versus something, so if Apple provides something that works with 80% of users that is far better than just trusting third parties to fix their OS.

This is like saying "no we don't need a calculator for iPad, the first thing I do is go to the app store and find my favorite 3rd party calculator. Apple doesn't need to make one. this is fine"

It's not that this is causing people to lose sleep. The issue is that it's an easy, tangible fix which would benefit a lot of power users. Also magnet costs money and window snapping in Win10/11 is free.

FWIW Rectangle is FOSS

https://rectangleapp.com

Agreed. Apple can implement this feature easily, and the fact that they have not done so reeks of poor business decisions. To the tune of... calculator for iPad...

+1 for Rectangle. It’s the first thing I install after homebrew on any new Mac. I came from Spectacle after EOL and was pleasantly surprised at the additional features (like window snapping) + support for Spectacle binds. If you want to try it out, it’s as easy as `brew install --cask rectangle`

Magnet does a much better job than the very limited options that MacOS has built in. It has menu/key commands for half-screen, quarter-screen, third-screen, and sixth-screen as well as maximizing without taking over the menu bar. It also has snap by dragging which can be used for all of these different fractions, although I almost always just use it for left/right half or full.

Hijacking to recommend Raycast https://www.raycast.com/ with Hyperkey https://hyperkey.app/

You can use Cap Locks as a "Hyper" key, equal to (cmd+opt+ctrl <+shift>) to launch or switch to spaces/apps with esc+{letter} so you can avoid the cmd+tab abomination.

Ooooo good tip, thanks! This might be a good replacement for Divvy [0], which I used until it EoL’d

[0] https://mizage.com/divvy/

Really miss Divvy (RIP). At the risk of causing a good thread on Apple's weird inability to lauch a really valuable OS feature devolve into a list of workarounds, Hammerspoon (a generic automation tool) plus this script (https://gist.github.com/artburkart/15b62f1a741eef0f74492860a...) offer a really good equivalent, with the added ability to change hotkeys, extend behaviour, modify behaviour, etc. since it's just a script. I was devastated for a brief while when Divvy (and then ShiftIt) stopped working, but haven't looked back for a while.

Magnet is sweet. Magnet and Little Snitch are the only Mac utility apps I've bought.

Essential software with no bloat or stupid business practices I've encountered yet.

I've used Magnet for years now. Always works well and is super simple.

Using it also and loving it

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