Huh, Mac is the one platform I avoid virtual desktops because the experience is so clunky with no keyboard commands to move items between spaces or jump to spaces, and the weirdness with fullscreen windows being their own space but then returning to a previous space when fullscreen is exited.
Re:The erosion of the Mac experience
by cassianoleal on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:01AM
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> no keyboard commands to move items between spaces
Not natively but Rectangle.app is a FOSS app that has them.
> jump to spaces
Control+(left arrow|right arrow) does it for me. It doesn't hop across destops but it gets me where I want quickly without moving my hand off the keyboard.
> fullscreen windows being their own space but then returning to a previous space when fullscreen is exited
I'm not sure what you'd consider superior to this. If I have a window on Desktop 2 and make it fullscreen, I usually want it to go back to Desktop 2 when I exit it.
>Control+(left arrow|right arrow) does it for me. It doesn't hop across destops but it gets me where I want quickly without moving my hand off the keyboard.
You can create desktop-specific shortcuts in Keyboard → Shortcuts → Mission Control → Switch to Desktop N
I never Alt+Tab on macOS because I am used to using Exposé and the Windows equivalent frustrates me to no end with its extremely slow animation, same things with virtual desktops which feel very clunky on Windows but works fine on macOS.