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Aha. Well, I've never used multiple spaces/desktops, so never had those problems. Q. What do you do on Linux instead of having to remember "whether you're swit

Aha. Well, I've never used multiple spaces/desktops, so never had those problems. Q. What do you do on Linux instead of having to remember "whether you're switching to a different application (cmd-tab), or a different window of the same application (cmd-` ???)" ? I don't know the way you're used to doing it, so it's impossible for me to assess your claims. > On top of this, fullscreened windows go to some ephemeral desktop/space I'd never CMD-TABed a fullscreened window before - not sure why you would want to do that, and I very rarely use fullscreen - so I never came across that! Tried doing it now - yeah, I had no idea where my fullscreen CMD-TABed firefox went or how to get it back (although New Tab worked)... So I googled it: under System Preferences->Keyboard->Mission Control->Shortcuts there are 3 shortcuts for move space right, left and go to desktop 1, which I activated, so if that ever happens I will hopefully remember what to do. Thanks, I learnt something :-) https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Spaces-on-Mac-OS-X https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Spaces-on-Mac-OS-X

raffraffraff 4y ago
On Linux you don't switch between the windows of a specific app OR between apps (which ignores the individual Windows of each app). Instead, its approach is to treat all windows as complete distinct. "Alt+Tab" can cycle between windows on the current display, and ignore windows on any other display. Task bars (eg XFCE) can do the same: show a list of windows that are on its display. You can group windows from the same app too, if you've got lots of windows open.
- yesenadam 4y ago
  Ah thanks! So you would kind of have to use desktops/spaces then. That does just seem a different system rather than obviously better or worse. Also, my long-time mac-using SO tells me she used to use spaces but found them counterproductive, so turned them off altogether, so maybe that's a good idea for people who run into problems with them when moving to macs.

raffraffraff 4y ago

On Linux you don't switch between the windows of a specific app OR between apps (which ignores the individual Windows of each app). Instead, its approach is to treat all windows as complete distinct. "Alt+Tab" can cycle between windows on the current display, and ignore windows on any other display. Task bars (eg XFCE) can do the same: show a list of windows that are on its display. You can group windows from the same app too, if you've got lots of windows open.

yesenadam 4y ago
Ah thanks! So you would kind of have to use desktops/spaces then. That does just seem a different system rather than obviously better or worse. Also, my long-time mac-using SO tells me she used to use spaces but found them counterproductive, so turned them off altogether, so maybe that's a good idea for people who run into problems with them when moving to macs.