![]() From 2007-2015, the Vista-era control panel split things awkwardly between the “new style” Vista panels and old-style windows XP/2000/98 panels. From 2001-2007, there’s no contest that System Preferences is better organized than Windows XP’s control panel. Settings layout: this one is opinion I’ve always found Windows settings horribly organized. Otherwise, isn’t “apps are files, drag to install, cmd-delete or drag to trash to uninstall” objectively simpler than using a wizard to install, and digging around in a control panel to uninstall?įunction key row: you can swap the behavior of the fn row so that the keys send Fn1-Fn12 by default, and needs the fn key held down to send commands like “volume up”. Uninstall vs delete: apps installed from the Mac App Store can be uninstalled from launchpad. Start menu to see all apps: this is called “Launchpad”, and is in the Dock by default for new macOS users, but can be removed. This typically has better number-of-keypress to get the window you want compared to Windows alt-tab which requires iterating over all windows in the worst case. I usually end up frustrated at things that work on Windows but don't on MacOS, but rarely vice versa.ĭesktop peek: Part of “Mission Control”: spread thumb and 3 fingers, or press Fn+F11.Īlt tab: press cmd-tab to cycle applications, then cmd-` to cycle windows of that application. And I still use Windows for work, but use Mac in personal usage. Many of my friends are masters of switching windows with Expose, which I absolutely despise. ![]() That said, I've used Windows for almost 15 years now, and I think many of its choices are second nature to me. In some cases, an actual function key row ![]() The concept of uninstalling an application vs just deleting the application Better settings, especially when it comes to relevant settings being in one place File Explorer is much more full-featured than Finder A start menu for seeing all your applications A modern/fully-featured default web browser without a locked down extension ecosystem. ![]() Alt-tab, especially when it comes to apps with multiple windows, and windows in different states, such as minimized Quick hide-all-windows to copy something from your desktop to your clipboard, then bring everything back The window history thing, Timeline, is something that I have disabed, but honestly sounds like an even better version of Recent Files, which is something many people use and might like something more full featured. I think that Windows again has the superior implementation here.Īero shake was pretty terrible, no arguments here. that's exactly how I would expect virtual desktops to behave? If it only changed a single monitor, does that mean you'd have to go to each monitor to change to a different virtual desktop? Do you see virtual desktop configurations specific to each screen, or any screen? What happens if your screens are different resolutions. I don't currently use multiple monitors, but I do use virtual desktops, and. But anyways, that choice is made available to you. It lets me treat recent tabs the same way as I would treat recent applications, which many websites effectively are. Alt-tab to switch between browser tabs in Edge is new, a setting that you can turn off, and in some cases, it's actually very useful, since you can limit the number of tabs.
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