[unethical_ban]

That's a 6 year old screenshot. They've made incremental improvements since... but yes, I've grown to appreciate it. The most annoying part of unity7's interface is its alt-tab function: It toggles between apps, not windows, and that's annoying.

[xtracto]

That's the same behaviour as OSX. At first I also hated this behaviour, coming form the Linux/Window environment. But after using it in conjunction with ALT+` (to cycle through app's Windows) I actually find it better than the standard Windows behaviour.

[ComputerGuru]

Hey, what do you know. We just released this last month, but it didn't get any love from HN:

https://neosmart.net/blog/2017/easy-window-switcher/

[lathiat]

Yeah once you learnt to use alt-backtick to switch window apps this is a much better experience IMO. Doesn't work without that though.

[pyre]

My biggest issue with the macOS way is that there are edge causes when using Spaces. The biggest being "stand-alone" Chrome apps like Signal Desktop are still tied to Chrome, even though they get their own icon and a separate place on the Dock. CMD-Tab'ing to Signal Desktop might just send me to a Chrome window. Ugh.

[pcr0]

That's why Google has been phasing out Chrome apps for a while now.

[dingo_bat]

Google has been phasing out chrome apps on all platforms because alt tab is broken in osx?

[pawadu]

I am with unethical_ban on this. Most of the time I am switching between multiple instances of the same app and this drives me crazy.

Just because OSX does it (I don't think windows 10 does this) it doesn't mean it is a good idea.

[jvolkman]

So use alt+`, which allows you to switch between multiple windows from the same app without the clutter of other apps.

[sampo]

Alt+` (or whatever key is above tab, if you have non-US keyboard) toggles between windows of the same app. I don't know if there is key combination to toggle between all windows, though.

[jhasse]

On GNOME 3 you can toggle between Windows using Alt + Esc.