cirunz
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The grip is not the grip. The shadow is the grip è_é
Just a random developer hatepost
Jun 11, 2025 11:02 AM
cirunz
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The grip is not the grip. The shadow is the grip è_é
Just a random developer hatepost
trinxter
Yeah, well, I hate Windows.
cirunz
Since the StatusStrip component with the grip generated confusion, this is the some window in my visual studio on a standard windows 11:
ruint
windows key and up, or up twice, or left, or right, or down :)
TheUnnamedPoet
Rounded edges on the windows, thick white border at the bottom.. This is a mac. Apple has never done anything to make their customers lives easier, and they never will.
SomeDetroitGuy
That's not a Mac. Maybe Linux? The mouse cursor is wrong and on a Mac, when the cursor changes, the functionality changes, too. You never have the resize cursor not able to resize a window.
TheUnnamedPoet
Could be linux. I'm not a big fan and tend to avoid it, so it's possible. I'm accustomed to seeing those rounded edges on mac windows. It's definitely not the standard microsoft windows style. Microsoft uses sharp 90 degree edges.
cirunz
Uh it is on my standard Windows 11 tho. the rounding is the usual, the grip is from a statusbar from visual studio base palette
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
It used to be though. The area of the corner, that is, not the grip-graphic itself. The grip-graphic is just something the devs added to make it more visible that this was the grip-area. Then they (Microsoft?) just made the grip-area smaller for some (to me) unknown reason.
TheUnnamedPoet
This example is from an apple OS. Windows uses sharp corners, macs use soft rounded corners. Nothing Apple has done for their customers in the last twenty years has been for the benefit of said customers.
SomeDetroitGuy
This is not an Apple OS. You've said this twice and it was wrong twice.
TheUnnamedPoet
It's not a windows machine unless the interface has been modified. And yeah, that looks EXACTLY like the windows on the mac OS for the machine I have in storage. So you can handle this in a polite way like the other person, or you can come across like a raging douchebag. Your choice, really.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Microsoft uses rounded corners though. But I believe it could be from a Mac. They just look rather similar. Here is a screenshot from my current Windows 11 pc.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
That said, I just spent 7 minutes searching through MacOS screenshots and found none that look anything like your post - but it only took me a few seconds to find a Windows 11 screenshot that looks almost exactly like yours. Not identical, so I can't say for sure, but it is enough for me to doubt if it really is MacOS.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Another Windows 11 screenshot I just grabbed from my virtual machine.
cirunz
It is in fact from Windows 11. I used the standard status bar component on a .net forms application. Before, the grip was exactly superimposed to the grip area.
TheUnnamedPoet
Hmm, you might be right. To be perfectly honest, I avoid windows 11 like the plague (slightly older hardware, runs better on windows 10) and from what I've seen / heard of the interface for it they have tried to make it more mac-like and "user friendly." But I don't have enough use with it to be 100% sure what the windows 11 windows look like.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Meh it's okay. You get used to it fast. Only takes a few minutes to change the UI to be more Windows 10 like, that makes it more pleasant for me to use daily. I mostly use it because it is a requirement for work, but generally I like to keep my devices updated.
TheUnnamedPoet
Agreed. I'm usually perfectly fine to allow things to update, but a lot of my hardware is from a couple generations back. It can RUN on windows 11, but it's far more stable running it on 10, especially for all the gaming I do (and the mods that come with said games.)
017renegade
There is no such grip in Windows...
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
There is though, in some resizable windows. Not 100% identical in my Windows 11 virtual machine, but it is pretty damned close.
017renegade
Not a single window I opened has this...
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Doesn't mean they aren't there. Try searching for indexing options in the control panel. That window has them.
TheUnnamedPoet
Someone made a suggestion of it being a Linux build, and that's possible. I'm not familiar enough with Linux to be know what the general OS design is.
cirunz
It's my standard windows 11, but that grip is on the status bar component on visual studio. The gif is of a windows forms app of mine. On previous windows versions the grip was exactly where you need to click
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Linux is too broad a term for there to be a general design as such.
But it is very possible that some desktop environments look like that, it's a very intuitive design element that's widely used across different types of operating systems.