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▲ devmor 6 hours ago

“Flawless” is absolutely the opposite of how I’d describe the third class keyboard navigation in MacOS.

It’s actually more intuitive to use a magic keyboard on the iPad than on the desktop OS.

▲sitharus 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What do you find missing from macOS keyboard navigation?

I've been using macs since the 90s so I'm quite used to it, so I'd love to know what I've been missing out on.

▲devmor 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I have a lot of complaints but I would say my three big gripes are:

- Window navigation within (rather than between) open programs. Mainly if one is on an external monitor, this is just a nightmare and I end up using expose and clicking the window instead.

- Window positioning (I installed 3rd party software called Rectangle for this last year so it’s kind of solved but if we’re talking about the vanilla experience this is a big one)

- Having to switch focus to the dock and navigate one by one through shortcuts to open them instead of the Super+Dock position shortcuts that Windows and KDE expose

▲sitharus 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting, those are problems I don't have, I guess due to my work and workflow.

Command-` works for window switching as I expect, probably simply due to being used to it so I know exactly how It works.

Window positioning is an interesting one. I can't stand windows being positioned through tools, I stack them like you would with papers and shuffle through so the edge overlap is really important. Probably showing my age there!

And I never use the dock. Spotlight gets me everything I'd need from there.

▲allthetime 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Window navigation is just ctrl+direction

▲nandomrumber 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Window navigation within open programs

Isn’t table cmd + ~

▲platevoltage 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

At least we have trackpads that are worth a crap.

▲devmor 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I do adore the macOS trackpads, they blow anything else I’ve used out of the water.

The keyboard (physically) is also just very pleasant to type on.

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