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by xutopia 159 days ago
Cmd+~ switches windows of a given app in case you didn't know (not disagreeing with you but it is one shortcut I find super useful and it helps switch windows).
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My hate for this behavior grows with each passing year as more and more of the "apps" I use become browser windows.
This is why I regard ChromeOS with fear. Because it really does feel like everything is just converging on the browser as the OS, and a browser is not a goddamn OS.
The browser is effectively an OS - and it’s not very productive to cling to the notion that it isn’t one
It's not very productive to build an entire OS on top of and JIT compiled on top of my already mature and functional OS. It's a waste of my time.

And if it is an OS, it's also just not one where I can be very productive.

It is productive though because it’s a universal platform. The economics of it are unavoidable
I have a non-ANSI keyboard so tilde is in a super weird place for that (next to left shift). I swapped the shortcut to Option+Tab, makes much more intuitive sense.
I heavily use this one actually.
On Linux I miss it and create a hybrid super-tilde action that cycles through apps of the same kind as the focused app.
Me too, in fact watching my hands for a moment, it's the only way I switch applications now
For some reason it's currently broken for Firefox on Mac, at least on my end.
Works fine for me