Impressions from a first-time Mac user

Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by verelo on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:03PM (#30994072)

As someone that came from a windows world for the first 10ish years of my career, i found this pretty frustrating too. I honestly still do. Sometimes it feels like I just cannot get to the window I want.

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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by lwkl on Monday April 11, 2022 @06:27PM (#30995913)

There is a separate shortcut to switch between windows of the currently selected application cmd + ` or ctrl + down arrow to show the windows.

So you alt + tab to select the application and switch to the right window. I personally think it's more reliable than Windows especially if I have a lot of Windows open (I used Windows for the last 10 years). On Windows I regularly switched to the wrong windows because of my fat fingers...

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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by verelo on Monday April 11, 2022 @09:45PM (#30997604)

So i actually use these shortcuts all the time! I think im more struggling with some edge case of my multi screen setup, im not sure. I just find myself having to do the full expand of all windows and then find the one i want to get things working again.

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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by darkteflon on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:50PM (#30995562)

You don’t have to live with it if you don’t like it; open source to the rescue: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

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