What is the crowd's opinion of BetterDesktopTool?

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someone made that tool since it was a commonly requested feature. Apple didn't make the app - It's not like APPLE is charging you for the feature. And they're asking for $2 for their hard work. Is that so wrong?

That's like saying "LOL Microsoft is totally ripping you off for This tool which replicates spaces and exposé in Windows" when it's from a third party that's asking for a little money.

It's hilariously ignorant to say that. Is it microsoft that's ripping you off for the app I linked?

Switching to 1504x1000 resolution @100% scaling really speeds things up - even the cursor feels more responsive. As an alternative I am testing out http://www.betterdesktoptool.com/ and it doesn't seem as laggy as the built in windows app switcher.

I've been using AquaSnap for a year or so. At first I just wanted the corner snapping for Win7 and didn't think I'd get much use from the other features. I was happy to hear Win10 would be getting corner snapping and figured I'd be able to do without a 3rd party utility once I made the jump.

But, holy crap, having to use a machine without the magnet and tiling features of this utility drives me insane nowadays. The fact that it can handle tiling of child windows within multi-doc applications -- such as older versions of Excel -- is an extra boon over Win10's native snapping.

I actually also really like the stretch and transparency-on-move features too, though those are less critical. I don't use the keyboard/mouse shortcuts or the window shake feature, but the others are staples of my window management at work and home now.

Win10's corner snapping is nice but really isn't a patch on this software.

Edit: Since we're throwing recommendations out there, I also use BetterDesktopTool -- originally conceived as a kind of 3rd party port of OSX's Expose features. Win10's Task View goes some way toward replacing that but, as with AquaSnap, BTT offers a few more customization options than the native Windows feature allows.

I use a Mac at work and run Excel in a Win7 VM via Parallels (because Excel for Mac is a disaster), so I actually get this functionality by proxy anyway -- the OSX shift-scrolling translates straight into the VM.

Beyond that I find OSX a royal pain for productivity compared to Windows. Really the only things I'd port over to Windows are:

• global horizontal scrolling
• Alt+` in-program window switching
• a smooth Mission Control/Expose (which I duplicate with BetterDesktopTool, just not quite as smooth)
• background window scrolling (which Win10 now has, and can be duplicated in prior versions using AlwaysMouseWheel or WizMouse )

The rest of the OS I generally find more of a hindrance than a help. Perhaps if I was a programmer I'd find more comfort in the *nix base, but currently that doesn't really benefit me much. Other than Finder I actually spend far more time daily in the Win7 VM programs than I do in native OSX programs...

I was thinking of something similar to Expose on the Mac. I just tried better desktop tool, but it's not as quick and smooth as the Windows task view and it doesn't work for every app.

It does work for Chrome, but not VLC Player or IrfanView.