But have you ever considered that windows could not only be less annoying, but also justdo more?

Automatic Window Tiling

Laptops are kind of a nightmare when it comes to wrangling open windows.

There are tools to help.

Screenshot of window management on the Mac

Drop zones in Moom, similar to those coming to macOS Sequioa.Many Tricks

i3

One answer to this is window tiling, which is just what it sounds like.

Your windows are tiled so that they occupy the entire space of the screen, but with no overlapping.

If you drop the window onto this ghost, it snaps to the ghost’s size and location.

Linux’s i3 tiling desktop manager in action

Linux’s i3 is offers extreme tiling.i3

But there’s more.

These add way more options.

And if you use a more progressive operating system like Linux, the possibilities might blow your mind.

Moom preference screen.

Look at all those options. Just loook at them.Many Tricks

In Linux, there are entire desktop environments which are dedicated to tiling, and they really are automatic.

So should you dig into these tools?

But in the end, Apple’s automatic window tiling might be just another dead end.

“The UI in macOS is already finished.

This kind of stuff is just fiddling,” UI designerGraham Bowertold Lifewire via email.

“Overlapping windows is a feature of the Mac desktop, not a problem.

it’s possible for you to drag things between windows, while also having the windows large.

press the edge of one and it comes to the front.