OSX fundamentally doesn't support robust tiling window managers. they exist only as a pale shadow of the real thing.
Isn't that the same case as Windows, BeOS, Android, iOS, PalmOS, etc?... I was wondering why OSX was explicitly called out.
OSX has a larger userbase of Plan9 fans, I think, including a number who run plan9port on it (Rob Pike has said that he uses such a setup). So the bits that you can't get Plan9-ish might rankle someone. Windows isn't any better, but there aren't many people trying to make Windows feel anything like Plan9 in the first place, so nobody's too disappointed about it.
Moom is pretty handy, though.
You can run any linux window manager directly on os x... of course you're stuck running only *nix programs then
True, but Amethyst[0] comes pretty close for my personal taste.
Presumably it's a sort of sideways/backhanded almost-compliment to OS X: it works well enough comparatively that its plusses overwhelm its negatives for the commenter. But, they still wish it supported more flexibility; and the fact it doesn't (and yet its plusses nevertheless still compare favorably enough to its minuses that the commenter continues to use it) leads to a sort of feeling of dissatisfaction and resentment.
Yes, exactly. I mostly love OS X in that it gives me nearly everything I love about Linux with almost none of the hassle. The window management story is terrible though. Wmii really clicked for me, and OS X really pales in comparison on that front.
Presumably the fact that you're tied into using Apple's window manager. But that's really loose and I don't totally understand why it merited being mentioned either, haha.