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I didn't realise that was why the Mac has a 'Quit' option on almost all apps. Coming from decades of Windows use, I was flummoxed as to why closing an app wind

I didn't realise that was why the Mac has a 'Quit' option on almost all apps. Coming from decades of Windows use, I was flummoxed as to why closing an app window via the header button didn't automatically 'Quit' it like it does on Windows, but rather left the menu bar hanging around. I had no idea it was cruft left over from the single tasking days of the OS.

simula67 8y ago
Windows' treatment of Window management is the right approach IMO. A window is the proper abstraction for an activity, not an app. In MacOS the dock mushes all activity on the app on all spaces into one app icon, and then you have to hunt to figure out which window contains the activity that you are working on. I have abandoned using multiple windows for multiple activities on MacOS because it is too much work. I suspect most people use tree style tabs etc as band-aid for MacOS's terrible window management. Joel Spolsky talked about some of this here : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/11/figuring-out-what-they-expected/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/11/figuring-out-what-.... They seems to have fixed this issue without fixing the underlying issue, probably because MacOS users are probably now used to the other model. This is why I love Windows with multiple desktops or Xfce over MacOS