| > 1. on mac os you can press cmd+backtick to cycle through the windows of the current app I'm fully aware, it is just so utterly inefficient for my workflows and my head. With alt-tab it is back-to-the-last-thing I worked on, I don't even think. On Mac it is: was-the-last-thing-I-worked-on-another-app-or-another-document-it-was-another-etc This can happen hundreds of times in a day, costs up to a few seconds at a time and more importantly it is insanely annoying when you know how snooth it can be. And to rub it in: Gnome 3 has something similar to Mac but you can disable it if you are a keyboard person like me. KDE is like Windows but can be configured however you like it. > 2. except for some exceptions keyboard shortcuts are pretty unified across all apps on mac os and can even be configured in a single global place Good thing they fixed that since 2012. > 3. from my biased point of view of being a software developer myself: If I see a file chooser modal component that locks all interaction then I see a wrong choice in a UI component that does not fit the usecase. But if I see a rendering glitch of a component in a promotional video, it looks to me as if the whole state space of the component or even of the GUI stack is ill defined. From my perspective: if a file chooser can block all other windows and I know people keep talking about the separation between apps and windows on that particular OS I conclude that they messed up that particular one. When I see rendering glitches on an open source project (I rarely see them, but thats maybe just me) I conclude that they haven't had time to fix it yet and probably the graphics drivers they have to build on aren't as polished as those on other OSes. But back to my conclusion: I'm happy all OSes and DEs exist. Some people honestly prefer every one of them for different reasons. I'm just so tired of people pretending KDE is kind of subpar because it doesn't excel in all areas at once. |