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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by kevincox on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:10AM (#31000259)
I didn't resist. Although if that was an option I may have considered. And after a year of daily use are work it was still tripping me up.

It's possible for an interface to be widely used and still have sharp edges. I consider this one of macOS's. It doesn't need to change, it may well not be worth it. But at least some people will end up in the menu of the wrong application.

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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by frosted-flakes on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:15PM (#31004634)
It's easy to run into this situation if you regularly have two windows side-by-side, and switch back-and-forth between them so that the focus could be in either window at any given moment. If you only have windows maximized (as I suspect GP does) it's not something you'll ever run into.
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Re:Impressions from a first-time Mac user by SllX on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:19PM (#31008351)
Nah. Many windows, from many apps, but typically two or three at the front side by side. I’ll leave Full Screen videos open as a kind of running queue in Mission Control but that’s about the extent of it.

There’s no secret, I just don’t lose track of which window I’m focused on in software because that’s the one I’m immediately focused on.

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