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ffsm8yesterday at 8:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

As a 38" ultrawide owner myself, I use vscode or intellij maximized most of the day, depending on the codebase I'm

Browsers only ever get maximized to the left/right half screen for me too

Which is something macos should really improve on though, the ux is pretty bad compared to Windows and Linux there


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jmspringyesterday at 9:28 PM

I split a vs code window and a browser or a browser and terminal window on my 13" mb air. Usually need additional context on the same screen.

plandistoday at 1:14 AM

MacOS has a built in 4x4 window tiling which works for this purpose for me. I don’t find ever wanting more than 4 windows open on an ultrawide. Definitely not as powerful as something like xmonad but useful for the majority of my use cases.

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