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2024. Dragging windows to the corners isnt how I would do it in windows or linux, I just use a super key and an arrow key and it moves it as needed along the tile. Having to drag a window around is terrible design.


Going all the way back to Windows 7 I preferred dragging to arrow keys, I legitimately don’t understand how that’s “terrible design” and not just a personal preference.

I would suspect a sizable portion of Windows users didn’t even realize that snapping with the arrow keys was possible, since keyboard shortcuts are (generally) harder to discover than mouse actions.


You can set whatever keyboard shortcut you want if you don’t want to drag the window.

Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts… > Windows > Quarters

Make them whatever you think they should be. No one is being forced to drag windows.




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