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Ugh, sounds like some of my coworkers and MacBooks. Then you discover that MacBooks are seriously crippled compared to the Linux machine you were using and you get told one of:
Throw in some serious RSI pain from that tire fire of a keyboard and yeah, I have no idea why I switched.
Edit: Work machine. No way I'd pay for Apple with my own money.
I'm stuck working on a MacBook too and it's horrendous. I plug it into a monitor and use a good keyboard, but it'll never be useful as a portable computer with that garbage keyboard
Using more than one monitor was the first "Why would you want to do that?" moment. Window management on Macs is awful but adding screens makes it way worse. Coming from i3 and sway, with rich hotkeys and fast, straightforward window manipulation, it felt like someone forgot to finish writing the OS. It seems most people use only the laptop screen or have a single external monitor as an auxiliary? They just genuinely didn't know why or how you use multiple monitors.
Tiling in macOS can be polyfilled with apps but there are tons of edge cases where it fails and the app's hotkeys don't flow well from the a handful of native keys, so it feels disjoint and bodged together. Also, if you "bump" a window, it'll stay dislodged because it's a poor mimicry of the real thing.
What are these edge cases you are talking about? I been using Rectangle for many years and have no issues with multi-monitor setup. My company with over 2000+ devs use this app without any issues.
Amethyst. Focusing on empty workspaces makes everything stop working. Certain window types (dialog popups, arguably that app shouldn't be using popups) are "invisible" to it. System preferences is untouchable (fair) and shows up under all other active windows.