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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by delaminator on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:19AM (#47003046)
Not in a GUI though. Sun Windows was overlapping, GEM was overlapping and almost everything else since then.

I'm on a 5120x2160 monitor and tiling is super perfect.

Can't recommend it enough.

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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by pjmlp on Friday February 13, 2026 @09:31AM (#47003164)
There were others out there, e.g. Oberon, Lilith,...
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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by delaminator on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:42AM (#47003964)
That's where I learned the power of tiling. Years of using the Acme text editor.

When you also learn drop down menus are not needed either.

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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by zamalek on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:54AM (#47004841)
Yup, but "normies" do need menus or at least some way to do things that has some degree of visual affordance (e.g. a persistent cmd/ctrl+p, which I think Office has/had).
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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues by delaminator on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:15PM (#47007242)
not everyone can drive a Ferrari
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