[fiddlerwoaroof]

I generally prefer the content-based zoom functionality. This is a case of people not used to the Mac conventions disliking that Macs don't work like Windows.

And, as I've pointed out, both behaviors are possible on macOS out of the box.

[thiht]

> I generally prefer the content-based zoom functionality

Why? This makes absolutely no sense. It's the same thing as macOS' windows not closing when you close them. It's stupid. They should copy Windows on what makes sense.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Because I use a 55" TV a lot, and it's useful to make Preview or whatever just big enough that I can see an entire page without being too big to fit in the "comfortable reading" part of the screen. (I also like the App/Window/Document model of macOS)

[deergomoo]

> This makes absolutely no sense

I don’t understand the fascination with maximising windows, especially web browsers. What the hell is the point of filling my screen with the window when, for the vast majority of websites, half or more of it is gonna be empty margin?

[thiht]

Centering. If it's not fullscreen, it's hard to center the windows properly, and I hate looking at a floating window.

[nitrogen]

Kiosks/dashboards where the display is what matters, not the navigation.

[einherjae]

Why does it make sense that an application must have windows to keep running?

[lazide]

Not doing that results in closing everything you can see easily in the GUI but it’s still burning RAM and being obnoxious where you can’t easily see it. If I wanted that to happen, I’d tell it to do that.

[anoncake]

It's more intuitive for non-technical users, in my experience.

[anoncake]

Is there even a pattern behind what gets downvoted here?

[wruza]

Maximizing sites that take 1024 px out of 1920 or even 2560 px doesn’t really make any sense.

macOS' windows not closing when you close them

Windows’ apps closing when you close their windows is no less absurd. The same for forcing you to either save or discard documents on quit/reboot.

[amyjess]

I don't want to have any non-maximized windows on my screen. I despise overlapping windows, and I want every single application I run to be full-screen, just like on a phone.

[wruza]

If that’s your preference, just do it. My comment wasn’t not about you or me, it was about what you get if you choose macos, how it works, and the reasoning behind that. This “I want how I want” sounds like a christian complaint in a mosque.

[reaperducer]

I want every single application I run to be full-screen, just like on a phone.

So run them in full-screen mode. No one is stopping you.

I hardly ever run into a program on macOS that doesn't support full-screen. View → Enter Full Screen, or Control+Option+F.

[tambourine_man]

Use another OS then, macOS is not for you.

[thiht]

> Windows’ apps closing when you close their windows is no less absurd

???

[fiddlerwoaroof]

With macOS’s setup, I can command-tab to any open app (e.g. preview), hit the up arrow and then use the arrow keys to quickly open a recent document. Without the app model macOS uses, this is a lot less convenient, and I miss it every time I use my KDE Plasma Desktop.

[anoncake]

If you use the cascading Application Menu widget, Win -- Arrow Down -- Arrow Right gets you to the recent files menu.

[user-the-name]

Why, if I want to close one document and open another, should it matter which order I do this in?