ps- if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, I'd love to hear them!

I don't remember changing this setting, but it's always possible I did years ago. I have never been a big user of Spaces and somehow missed out knowing Split View was ever a thing, but it's actually pretty neat.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948

as long as someone does the job correctly

While I think that Apple should have just copied Microsoft's approach (i.e. what Cinch does) the wealth of options for window management means that everybody can find something that they like.

I use BetterSnapTool instead, which seems to have a better collection of settings and solves my (admittedly minor) gripe with Spectacle.

I know I'm being selfish here but it would be nice if Apple covered this sort of stuff instead of concentrating on emoji and Siri. Both of which I have no real use for.

Not sure about your window size problems with external monitors, I find that OS X handles this amazingly well

It has probably been my favorite utility for Mac

[1] https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-management

But I do love the amazing level of configuration and scripting that Hammerspoon allows you to do.

Also you can drag left/right to snap to one half of a screen.

Anyway I tried to replicate this behavior on Mac with spectacle. It's meh. If you fuck up and fullscreen something and then try to half screen it, it seems to break horribly.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moom/id419330170?mt=12

http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ http://www.coderage-software.com/index.html

It can do everything but make lunch.

https://github.com/jigish/slate

Admittedly it's annoying that this feature is hidden and requires dragging with the mouse, but it is possible.

Actually the Finder has interactive breadcrumb style paths that's not hidden at all (just not on by default):

View -> Show Path Bar

It also has a "path dropdown" with all the directories up to the current path, shown if you command-click on the current folder's icon+name on the top-center of the Finder.

I've never found macOS's window management to be that bad, but to be fair I've been using Moom for a decade or so, and lately have been using the "split full screen app" trick a lot. (Someone else mentioned the long press on the green "full screen" dot for that, but you can also do it just by making an app full screen, going to Mission Control--which I do with a four-finger swipe--and dragging a second app on top of the full screen one.) That's not as useful for 27" monitors--in most cases I prefer to actually have untiled windows I can rearrange and resize with the pointer--but it's terrific for laptop screens.

Not sure what "isn't interactive" means, but the OS X "path bar" let's you do the exact same thing (as you describe for the command-click on the folder icon): by clicking on any folder along the path you can navigate to it.

Note that it takes a double-click for that though. Perhaps you were only single-clicking?

What is so horrible about it ? I have the exact same reaction every time I have to use Microsoft Windows. Window management is one of the strongpoints of MacOS.

> A network drive hangs? Good luck with Finder..., the whole system halts.

I've never encountered this problem on both AFP and SMB shares.

I am typing this on a Macbook Pro so I am not some Windows fan. OS X has fallen way behind in its desktop incarnation. The only reason I use OS X is due to its Unix shell for development. I don't think anyone can honestly say that as a GUI OS X is better than recent Windows.

I've never lost focus with fullscreen/2 monitors. So?

Can you give an example of this? I regularly switch between macos, windows and ubuntu and I have a hard time coming up with much positive to say about macos window management (unless a third-party tool is used).

I never understood this type of workflow and when I was in school it was everywhere, it's like apple was pushing for people to have little windows strewn out over an otherwise gorgeous display.

Also, it's nice for spacial awareness. I feel a little bit lost when a window takes over the entire screen and blanks everything else out.

It's even better in ubuntu because desktop switching isn't just left/right, it's up down. So I can really think geographically. I guess that's just the kind of brain I have - for example, if I want to look for tickets for a movie I want to see, I search "movie theater" in google maps and click the theater in the location I want to go to, then navigate through ticket buying etc. shrug who knows man

Uh... because with three 30" monitors, it would be like sitting in the front row at an iMAX theater?

While I'm at it, I'll also plug https://manytricks.com/witch which I find invaluable for switching between windows and just got an update.