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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!?
You don't switch monitors, you switch windows. That is how it works for all windows. It's like that so you can click anywhere in a window to focus it without activating something in the window by accident.
You can close windows with the red window button, and the yellow button minimizes a window. Absolutely not the same thing. The whole application you can close via the dock, or the menu bar, or cmd+q. Two different things.
Some apps have a single main window though which will reopen when the dock icon is clicked (e.g. Mail), but that is still different to what the yellow minimize button does. The distinction is much more useful for document style apps like TextEdit which can have multiple windows (or none, if no file is open). There is also Hide which hides the entire application and all its windows until it's activated again.
You can absolutely drag and drop to tile windows, and there are also keyboard shortcuts for it. Check the Window -> Move & Resize menu for that.
Well, theoretically yes. On a Mac, no.
Why would I want to do that? Why does double-clicking suddenly remove that need?
No you can't. It just minimizes them. Just like the yellow button.
Like I said, sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. Apple does not give any fucks about consistency or intuitive design.
Yes, even on a Mac. Necessarily so since it strictly places windows on one monitor. You're always switching to a window on another monitor.
Can you give an example of what you're talking about?
So you can activate a window without first having to find a free space in the UI to click on (especially if it partially overlaps). It much increases the surface to click on to focus a window and therefore makes it faster since you can be more inaccurate in where you move the mouse.
What need?
It does not.
Can you give an example of a window that gets minimized by clicking the red button?
No, drag and drop tile actions always work, even if it doesn't entirely make sense (e.g. windows that can't be resized).
Can you give an example of a window that it does not work with?