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One thing that surprises me (and may be the source for some of his frustrations) is how much for a power user he uses the mouse. This isn't a criticism, just an

One thing that surprises me (and may be the source for some of his frustrations) is how much for a power user he uses the mouse. This isn't a criticism, just an observation. He, fairly, criticises how long it takes for the filename to show up when he hovers over an icon on the task bar. However, I think the vast majority of people at his level would use Alt+Tab which immediately brings up not only larger icons for active applications to swap between, but the filename above.

Jaruzel 6y ago
If you have a lot of apps open, Alt-Tab no longer shows them all, you have to repeatedly keep bashing Tab to get the window to scroll down to the hidden ones - there's no scroll bar and mousewheel doesn't work. For this reason, I've completely stopped using Alt-tab on Windows 10. Win+Tab is the 'replacement' but is slower and riddled with bugs - one annoying one is that some times it doesn't show the preview of half the apps. Also, the order of the windows is always changing, so you waste time scanning for the app you just used. You can also type Win+<num> where <num> is 1-9 and that number icon activates from the taskbar. Which is great if you have 10 sticky icons down there, but if like me you don't 'stick' icons to the taskbar, it not as fast (muscle memory etc) or as useful as it could be. I totally agree with the first part of his video (the main Windows 10 rant). Each iteration of Windows makes it slower for the power user. When the Year of the Linux Desktop is finally upon us, I guess I'll eventually switch. ;)
- peterkos 6y ago
  Yeah. I've always wondered why MS puts the window previews there when the Timeline view and multi-desktop view shows the window contents. macOS imo does a much better job: Mission Control is for all graphical work. For power users, Alt+tab is apps only, no previews, and then once you're in an app, you can Cmd+` to cycle through each window. Or, set a gesture to 3-finger-swipe down and see all the windows that belong to a specific app.
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  In WindowMaker (another NextStep clone, the windowlist (default, F11 or middle-mouse click on desktop), shows all active windows, across all desktops.
dredmorbius 6y ago
What struck me is how, given a trackpoint (or trackball), all the mouse arguments fall away. Fingers are on the home keys, keyboard homeless or otheerwise. I'm not fully opposed to mice, and having each of trackpoint, trackpad, mouse, trackball, and tablet could be a plus.

Jaruzel 6y ago

If you have a lot of apps open, Alt-Tab no longer shows them all, you have to repeatedly keep bashing Tab to get the window to scroll down to the hidden ones - there's no scroll bar and mousewheel doesn't work. For this reason, I've completely stopped using Alt-tab on Windows 10. Win+Tab is the 'replacement' but is slower and riddled with bugs - one annoying one is that some times it doesn't show the preview of half the apps. Also, the order of the windows is always changing, so you waste time scanning for the app you just used. You can also type Win+<num> where <num> is 1-9 and that number icon activates from the taskbar. Which is great if you have 10 sticky icons down there, but if like me you don't 'stick' icons to the taskbar, it not as fast (muscle memory etc) or as useful as it could be. I totally agree with the first part of his video (the main Windows 10 rant). Each iteration of Windows makes it slower for the power user. When the Year of the Linux Desktop is finally upon us, I guess I'll eventually switch. ;)

peterkos 6y ago
Yeah. I've always wondered why MS puts the window previews there when the Timeline view and multi-desktop view shows the window contents. macOS imo does a much better job: Mission Control is for all graphical work. For power users, Alt+tab is apps only, no previews, and then once you're in an app, you can Cmd+` to cycle through each window. Or, set a gesture to 3-finger-swipe down and see all the windows that belong to a specific app.
dredmorbius 6y ago
In WindowMaker (another NextStep clone, the windowlist (default, F11 or middle-mouse click on desktop), shows all active windows, across all desktops.

dredmorbius 6y ago

What struck me is how, given a trackpoint (or trackball), all the mouse arguments fall away. Fingers are on the home keys, keyboard homeless or otheerwise. I'm not fully opposed to mice, and having each of trackpoint, trackpad, mouse, trackball, and tablet could be a plus.