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  • You don’t switch monitors, you switch windows.

    Well, theoretically yes. On a Mac, no.

    It’s like that so you can click anywhere in a window to focus it without activating something in the window by accident.

    Why would I want to do that? Why does double-clicking suddenly remove that need?

    You can close windows with the red window button

    No you can’t. It just minimizes them. Just like the yellow button.

    You can absolutely drag and drop to tile windows

    Like I said, sometimes you can, sometimes you can’t. Apple does not give any fucks about consistency or intuitive design.

    and there are also keyboard shortcuts for it

    1. Apple keyboard shortcuts are often 3 different keys for some stupid reason
    2. I shouldn’t need them. Dragging and dropping the window should tile them just like it has in Windows for as long as I’ve been alive.




  • On the other hand, I experience glitches on macOS regularly on the UI, especially on a multi-monitor setup (I use both Gnome and macOS with multiple monitors).

    Multi monitor and window tiling on Mac are so bad, they should be embarrassed.

    You have to click to switch monitors but if you do it twice it registers as a double click so you have to click…wait…then click again.

    Sometimes you can drag windows from one screen to the other and other times they just…disappear as you drag then across.

    You can’t close anything from the window buttons and the red and yellow buttons do the same thing. You have to go into the taskbar and right click to close them.

    Then they took the time in Sequoia to add window tiling but it’s just such an awful experience. You have to hover over the green dot and wait for the prompt to popup and choose from a drop-down menu. WHY CAN’T YOU JUST DRAG AND DROP!?
















  • I just looked into it again out of curiosity. It no longer requires a Google login (nor does it even require Google Play services, because I don’t have them. This will probably change once they go paid, which they’ve apparently rolled back since the iMessage debacle).

    It says it supports SMS/RCS, but it actually supports neither. All it does is connect to your Google messages web account. This is an absolute joke for an app that bills itself at the top of it’s home page as “all your chats in one app” and it doesn’t even support the most common chat method.

    As far as I can tell the app is still closed source.