[tracker1]

The one thing I think is great in Windows is the whatever the active apps bar at the bottom is (taskbar?). Hover, get thumbnails, etc. On mac, I find it kind of painful to juggle a few windows of the same application. Can say the same in Linux as well, some apps don't even show up at all, even though they're running in a window/viewport.

I genuinely like and dislike most OS UIs I've tried. They all have things that irk me. While windows settings has gotten more consistent, it's also all the more painful when you had gotten used to the "old way" of doing things and where to look. If MS executives could just get TF out of their own way on some of the stupidity and force-feeding.

Mac, just feels a bit dated at this point, but the touchpad integration across all apps is great. Not to mention the macbook touchpads being second to none in terms of usability.

Linux, I can shift to almost exactly what I want. There are rough edges and spots you cannot reach via UI, but it mostly works without issue. Been using Budgie as my DE for over a year, fairly customized and like it a lot.

[bloopernova]

Not defending macOS here, but switching between windows and managing them is usually performed via Exposé, (ctrl-uparrow)

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Also, if you’re at the command-tab picker, the up arrow key will switch to windows of the currently selected app (and left/right arrows will change the currently selected app). The macOS command-tab switcher has a bunch of functionality built in.

[tracker1]

Thanks, That's a hotkey I wasn't aware of... I know I could use gestures (three finger swipe up), but usually using my mouse.

[em-bee]

discovery of hotkeys can be a challenge. despite having used gnome for years now i only recently learned that i can switch windows with alt-esc instead of alt-tab, which is much faster when you have multiple windows of the same app or want to switch back and forth between to windows. and i only found this while searching for an extension that would make switching windows easier.

[nequo]

Unity used to show the keyboard shortcuts when you held the Super key:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/JDDku.png

To my knowledge, modern GNOME does not have this which is sad. There's this webpage instead:

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-keyboar...

[em-bee]

the thing is that i would not even have thought of looking there. i was at "switching windows is a pain, how can i make it better" which is not "is there a hotkey to switch windows differently, because why would i even consider that there are multiple ways to switch windows, especially with gnome that kind of has a reputation of removing seemingly unneeded features.

[nequo]

It does have that reputation but I've found it very usable.

"Half-maximizing" windows with Super+Left and Super+Right is very handy when I need to see things side-by-side.

Moving windows from one screen to another by pressing Super and doing drag-and-drop, and moving windows across workspaces with Shift+Super+PgUp and Shift+Super+PgDown are also convenient.