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I've been using Powertoys FancyZones as a slightly more custom version of the OOTB window snapping in Windows.
The monitor also has a PBP 'PictureByPicture' option that allows it to identify as 2 separate monitors to whatever it's connecting to. So could either connect it twice to the PC to or connect, say, a macbook to one side and PC to another. That moves the issue away from the OS to it being a purely hardware thing. but you can also then tell the OS the two monitors are side by side, so you can drag and drop things or display them spanning across the screens seamlessly.
I tried it at first as most of the time I have my work Linux VM via Citrix, and it was annoying when Citrix wasn't in fullscreen mode that windows key, alt-tab etc would be captured by the host OS rather than the VM.
But it also disabled things like HDR because the monitor couldn't HDR one side of the screen and not the other. And I found a registry setting to let Citrix capture windows key/alt-tab etc as long as it was the active window, so stopped using it. But it was quite cool to have the OS be unaware that it was connecting to the same monitor twice
So it's mostly good for me now. I'm sure there are more complete window managers available but between snapping and fancyzones (and I prefer to avoid extra programs if possible) then it covers most my use cases
/csb