It baffles me seeing tech people often seem to leave the dock along the bottom of their screen, wasting valuable screen space, especially if they're on a laptop. No auto-hide or anything.

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hydhyd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

First thing I do on a new Mac is move the dock to the left hand side and auto-hide if it's a laptop. With typical screen aspect ratios, you lose so much usable space with the dock along the bottom.

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socalgal2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

different strokes for different folks. Auto-hiding = super frustrating everytime it pops up when I didn't want it where as with it always there there's zero frustration. Zero frustration wins over some wasted space for me.

	▲	Sathi an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, many years ago, I used to move the dock to the left and auto-hide it to recover the screen space. But it resulted in the dock popping up (sliding right) at unexpected times and I ended up clicking the dock items unintentionally. So, after about a year or so, I defaulted to moving the dock to the left but stopped auto-hiding it.

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pantulis an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

What baffles me is people having the stock macOS apps in the Dock without taking the time to at least remove what they don't use. I think this goes to show that for most people they don't even notice the Dock is there.

	▲	jonwinstanley 29 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes drives me mad. Maybe they don’t realise you can change what’s there?
	▲	cpursley 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Vast majority of computer users (including phones) don’t customize anything beyond the out of the box set up. In fact, I’d that’s even true for my sass customers, only particular percentage of them use any of the customizable settings. Which is why UX is so hard, we have to do our best to make sensible default choices. As technologists, it’s very easy to forget this while on the thick of it.