Completely useless for the past 20 years. I have it always hidden with 0 loss of functionality.

It provides no info about what windows are open, it does random things when you click on an icon, it has an indicator that tells you that an app is in memory but may or may not have a window. And all these become even worse once you have multiple monitors / spaces.

Just copy whatever gnome/kde/windows are doing. All of these have figured it out. Only macOS needs an investment of like $50 per year in helper apps to deal with the poor app and window management.

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mrkpdl an hour ago | parent [-]

You are saying the the dock on Mac OS has been ‘completely useless for the past 20 years’? I mean I can think of at least three uses… And certainly more if I bothered to actually count?

	▲	jmkni an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		To be fair I assume a lot of HN users spend most of their time in the terminal anyway, so maybe not representative of your average user
	▲	airstrike 42 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Call it completely frivolous. I've had it hidden since the day I started using macOS and I cannot think of anything I use it for