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Re:I said no and Apple said yes by someguyiguess on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:40AM (#49800287)
They have one built in now and have had third party ones for over a decade. I used SizeUp to tile windows in Mac OS in 2013. Now the OS has it built in but I find Rectangle to be superior. And it’s free and much better than any window manager I’ve tried in any Linux Distro.
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Re:I said no and Apple said yes by BoxwoodSeed on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:45AM (#49801214)
SizeUp isn't a tiling window manager as far as a youtube video showcasing it goes and neither is Rectangle. It's more like an alternative to the Windows aero snap thing.

A tiling window manager is a different concept.

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Re:I said no and Apple said yes by vscode-plz-stop on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:43PM (#49809312)
Is this ragebait? In case it isn't...

I'm sorry but objectively macOS window management is wholly subpar compared to the options on Linux.

Rectangle is a literal hack on top that hopefully works when you need it. Rectangle is great, but Rectangle, Yabai and whatnot can only hope that the undocumented private APIs that macOS _allows_ them to use today don't mysteriously break tomorrow.

Meanwhile a Linux window manager actually does its full job unencumbered because it's a _real_ first class window manager and not a hack.

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