The Mac Pro Lives

Re:The Mac Pro Lives by kerbalspacepro on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:14AM (#14033493)

... on Windows you drag a window to the right and make it 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 the screen. On a Mac dragging the window... drags the window.

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by Aaargh20318 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:23PM (#14034386)

I never understood the whole obsession with running applications fullscreen. The whole point of a multitasking OS is to run multiple apps at the same time. If you need to run your apps fullscreen you probably need a bigger monitor.

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by komali2 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:47PM (#14035975)

For the other perspective - it actually boggles my mind when I see coworkers with one desktop open with 3-4 windows kinda mushed all around, different sizes, etc. Like, you paid a lot of money for that good display, why are you not using it?! How can you stand having to scroll all over a window to see something, when you could just fullscreen it? Is it that they need to context switch quickly? Why not just use multiple desktops, with all fullscreen or at least fully-half-screened apps?

I never understood this type of workflow and when I was in school it was everywhere, it's like apple was pushing for people to have little windows strewn out over an otherwise gorgeous display.

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by marssaxman on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:51PM (#14037073)

I am using it, that's the whole point of having multiple windows open. Each window shows whatever is relevant about that context, and it takes up no more space than necessary so I can have as many sources of information visible as I want.

Also, it's nice for spacial awareness. I feel a little bit lost when a window takes over the entire screen and blanks everything else out.

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by komali2 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:36PM (#14037446)

Regarding spacial awareness, because I have the same window in a given "desktop" all the time, my spacial awareness is locational. If I'm in my IDE, I know it's 2 desktops to the right to get to my terminals. From there, 3 to the left to get to my company chat. Etc.

It's even better in ubuntu because desktop switching isn't just left/right, it's up down. So I can really think geographically. I guess that's just the kind of brain I have - for example, if I want to look for tickets for a movie I want to see, I search "movie theater" in google maps and click the theater in the location I want to go to, then navigate through ticket buying etc. shrug who knows man

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by Aaargh20318 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:46AM (#14040226)

When you want to write a letter by hand, do you clear your entire desk and get a desk-sized blank sheet of paper to write on ?

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by CamperBob2 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:36PM (#14053873)

How can you stand having to scroll all over a window to see something, when you could just fullscreen it?

Uh... because with three 30" monitors, it would be like sitting in the front row at an iMAX theater?

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:13PM (#14035002)

The common use-case is laptop vs. desktop. If you have a 34in. WQHD display, full-screening one app is going to be silly; if you're stuck with the built-in display on an MBP when you're at the cafe, it's much more practical.

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by kerbalspacepro on Thursday April 06, 2017 @02:53PM (#14053445)

My MBA always has an app in full screen mode. My TB display has windows on windows. It is the apps' fault, not mine.

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