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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by baxuz on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:36AM (#39601632)
Yes, and this is the reason why there is a shared menu bar and why many early macos apps had a number of floating windows, like Photoshop.

The desktop represents the active app, and a window is the active document in that app.

This doesn't make all that much sense with today's screen sizes and multiplatform apps.

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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by jwells89 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:00AM (#39605239)
It depends entirely on what you’re used to.

My earliest exposure to computers was a Mac (though Windows, Linux, and BeOS also came into the picture fairly early on) and I don’t find the Mac model the least bit problematic. On the contrary, I find the Win9X model overly simplistic and unmanageable past a small handful of windows.

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