discrete-scroll VS Rectangle

DiscreteScroll - Very basic, just removes the acceleration, doesn’t smooth scrolling. No GUI, click and run and forget about it. add it to “Open at login” to never worry about enabling it.

Discrete-Scroll solved this issue for me. I did have to download XCode and build the project to make it native M1. But I had never used XCode before and it was still pretty easy, I just bumbled around until I found the "Build" button and then the button that let me install the app I just made. It works perfectly and fixes what is admittedly a minor issue.

DiscreteScroll This is the most bare-bones and just fixes the annoying acceleration-based scrolling-model in macOS and replaces it with a more windows-like velocity-based scrolling-model. Both MOS and Mac Mouse Fix also do this. This one is just super minimal and unobtrusive. You do need to run it every time you login, but its super minimal and lightweight. There’s no GUI, so you open it and it just does its thing in the background. You close it in Activity Monitor. I use this still because Mos and Mac Mouse Fix dont fix gaming in macOS. Minecraft doesn’t move selected spaces in the hot bar with each scroll-click with either. DiscreteScroll fixes this.

for the occasional game where you want each “click” from the scroll-wheel to be precise, there’s DiscreteScroll

You can try Discrete Scroll. I found it here.

Rectangle’s installation is incredibly straightforward. Its immediate out-of-the-box functionality was a pleasant surprise. For anyone seeking to reduce the friction of window management on their Mac, Rectangle is a solution I wholeheartedly recommend.

Tip: I use Rectangle app to set up keyboard shortcuts to resize windows (I only have three shortcuts there: left/right half of the screen and full screen).

But Raycast also has some functionality in that direction.

[1] - https://rectangleapp.com/

Two more little utilities that I cannot live without on Mac:

A tiling window manager like https://rectangleapp.com/

Muzzle, which automatically silences desktop notifs when you're screensharing https://muzzleapp.com/

I suggest using Rectangle instead of Magnet; it has the same features but is free. I don't know what other Windows features you want to have.

I’ve used this app forever. Adds in all the window snapping features.

third-party window management apps like Magnet and Rectangle

Rectangle Mac - Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas, similar to Windows.

I was a Spectacle user for years, but I recently switched to using Rectangle for window management. Rectangle has a few more options than Spectacle; I’m still getting used to it but I have no strong feelings either way.