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Mission Control and Notifications have made a pretty big difference in my workflow, but yes, I'd agree that the changes are getting smaller over the years.

ghshephard 11y ago
It's interesting - I use a lot of features of OS X that I think most people don't touch often (I'm probably one of the only people on HN who frequently launches apps from Launchpad with the four-finger squeeze, for instance) - but notifications bar and mission control are two that I've never found any use for. (I'm an Cmd+Tabber) Indeed, Notifications has an annoying habit of locking up an otherewise solid 10.8.5 so I can't command+tab between apps. It always returns after 45-90 seconds, and I can kill it by bringing up spotlight and launching activity monitor - but that's the only impact that the notification tray has made on me. (Though, notifications themselves, akin to what Growl used to do, are kind of handy - except for the annoying one telling me I have to update my computer that I can't stop from coming back - particularly harsh when you are doing a presentation on a projector)
- hollerith 11y ago
  I'm with you. I gave Mission Control.app a serious try, but have no use for it. >the annoying one telling me I have to update my computer that I can't stop from coming back That one caused me to disable OS X notifications altogether. If Apple wants to silently upgrade the OS without notifying me, I would be OK with that (though I'd appreciate an email) but interrupting me without giving me any way less drastic than rebooting to turn off the stream of interruptions is just not OK with me. (Yes, I realize that I'm more intolerant of interruptions than most people.)
- themoonbus 11y ago
  I have 4 spaces (or whatever they are called now) to which I assign various applications, each of which can have several windows open, so that's my use case. I command-tab as well, but I find it useful to have an overview of everything going on, and jump straight to a window (without command-tabbing, then command-tilde'ing depending on the application)

ghshephard 11y ago

It's interesting - I use a lot of features of OS X that I think most people don't touch often (I'm probably one of the only people on HN who frequently launches apps from Launchpad with the four-finger squeeze, for instance) - but notifications bar and mission control are two that I've never found any use for. (I'm an Cmd+Tabber) Indeed, Notifications has an annoying habit of locking up an otherewise solid 10.8.5 so I can't command+tab between apps. It always returns after 45-90 seconds, and I can kill it by bringing up spotlight and launching activity monitor - but that's the only impact that the notification tray has made on me. (Though, notifications themselves, akin to what Growl used to do, are kind of handy - except for the annoying one telling me I have to update my computer that I can't stop from coming back - particularly harsh when you are doing a presentation on a projector)

hollerith 11y ago
I'm with you. I gave Mission Control.app a serious try, but have no use for it. >the annoying one telling me I have to update my computer that I can't stop from coming back That one caused me to disable OS X notifications altogether. If Apple wants to silently upgrade the OS without notifying me, I would be OK with that (though I'd appreciate an email) but interrupting me without giving me any way less drastic than rebooting to turn off the stream of interruptions is just not OK with me. (Yes, I realize that I'm more intolerant of interruptions than most people.)
themoonbus 11y ago
I have 4 spaces (or whatever they are called now) to which I assign various applications, each of which can have several windows open, so that's my use case. I command-tab as well, but I find it useful to have an overview of everything going on, and jump straight to a window (without command-tabbing, then command-tilde'ing depending on the application)