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> Launchpad is silly, but Mission Control pretty much changed how I used a computer. I'd been using Macs since 10.4, but I didn't get Macs until Lion. And 10.9

> Launchpad is silly, but Mission Control pretty much changed how I used a computer. I'd been using Macs since 10.4, but I didn't get Macs until Lion. And 10.9 made multi-monitor much much better by making Mission Control desktops per-monitor YMMV, but Mission Control completely broke the way Spaces worked as compared to prior Mac OS X releases -- which also happens to be the way I've worked since the 90s. I don't need full screen apps, or separate spaces per head, so from my perspective, that change was an enormous net loss. There are work-arounds, but they're imperfect: http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/ http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/ Factor in silly stuff like notification center, and all Apple seems to have done UX-wise for me is make it harder to actually get work done.

eropple 13y ago
You can turn off spaces-per-monitor, so I don't know what your complaint there is. I also don't really get what Mission Control's "your virtual desktops are in a line" rather than Spaces' "your virtual desktops are in a square" makes you lose. You can turn off the reordering (I do) and it becomes functionally the same thing.
- teacup50 13y ago
  > You can turn off the reordering (I do) and it becomes functionally the same thing. It's not. You lose spatial organization; I place related projects next to each other (top and to the right) to make it easy to switch between related working contexts, eg LaTeX editor for documentation of a project + IDE for the actual project code + source code for a related project to use as a reference, etc Ditching the grid also means decreasing the amount of room in which spaces can be laid out; The grid is a very efficient mechanism for switching between LOTS of spaces. I maintain a 4x4 grid of 16 spaces, and I never quit anything, or close a document -- RAM is cheap. I simply treat different areas of the grid as different contextual workspaces. If I come back to a project two weeks later, it's all still there.

eropple 13y ago

You can turn off spaces-per-monitor, so I don't know what your complaint there is. I also don't really get what Mission Control's "your virtual desktops are in a line" rather than Spaces' "your virtual desktops are in a square" makes you lose. You can turn off the reordering (I do) and it becomes functionally the same thing.

teacup50 13y ago
> You can turn off the reordering (I do) and it becomes functionally the same thing. It's not. You lose spatial organization; I place related projects next to each other (top and to the right) to make it easy to switch between related working contexts, eg LaTeX editor for documentation of a project + IDE for the actual project code + source code for a related project to use as a reference, etc Ditching the grid also means decreasing the amount of room in which spaces can be laid out; The grid is a very efficient mechanism for switching between LOTS of spaces. I maintain a 4x4 grid of 16 spaces, and I never quit anything, or close a document -- RAM is cheap. I simply treat different areas of the grid as different contextual workspaces. If I come back to a project two weeks later, it's all still there.