It can’t do the literal entire thing an operating system is supposed to do: manage applications and their resulting windows, in a sensible way.

I want to know what application is running.

Sure it’s in the dock!

I want to find a specific application window.

Go fuck yourself right to hell.

Wait, the taskbar doesn’t show the running windows, like it does on every other OS? It’s at least discrete right?

It discretely takes up 1.5cm of the bottom of the screen at all times. It’s so discrete it doesn’t even need to use the corners.

Uh, alright, well that’s all the system space you need right?

Yeah of course just that bottom inch or so … And a top of screen system level menu bar to display what windows does in the bottom corners.

/sigh/ ok, fine, I just want to be able to full screen a window and still see what else is open.

Burn in hell and die.

I want to be able to easily switch left and right between open windows.

Go full screen or I will shoot you.

I want to move an open window into the other monitor.

You can’t because you’re full screen dumbass.

I want to let a window present a popup like they normally do.

You can’t because youre full screen dumbass. Why would you be full screen?

I want an application like Slack to be able to popup and remove notifications when is appropriate.

Choose to have every single notification persists on screen until you manually remove it, or miss all your notifications.

Can’t we trouble you for something in between, where we trust an application and let it manage them in a way that makes sense based on their context?

You can trouble me for something in between these cheeks, shit stain.

Like honestly, I fucking hate what an advertising and AI filled mess Windows is, but it can actually manage your windows and virtual desktops in a way that makes a modicum of sense.

It feels like a single Apple product manager decided that the way that they use their computer (a single application at a time, no windows to manage) is the only way anyone does, so who cares if we implement a nonsensical full screen paradigm, it makes one tiny niche edge case slightly simpler.

  • masterspaceOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    At work, let’s say I’m working on a simple application, just doing basic work on a clean slate:

    1. A browser open with reference material: my current Jira task, relevant documentation, Pull Request etc.
    2. VSCode with the front-end code files, with an integrated terminal running the front-end server
    3. VSCode with the back-end code files, with an integrated terminal running the back-end server
    4. A terminal window for running the project / dev server and debugging
    5. The GUI of whatever app I’m working on (usually a different browser tab)
    6. Slack
    7. Email
    8. Zoom

    Now let’s say I’m doing slightly more realistic work, where I’m trying to hunt down a bug across a larger app consisting of numerous microservices, user types, and front ends:

    1. A browser open with reference material: my current Jira task, relevant documentation, etc.
    2. VSCode running our overall platform repo with a terminal running docker compose
    3. Docker open for inspecting the logs and status of each service
    4. VS code window for each microservices that needs to be worked on and dug through (+3-6).
    5. A VS code window for the front-end code
    6. A SQL / Db debugging tool
    7. A browser window with the GUI for normal users.
    8. A different browser window with the GUI for admin users.
    9. Postman for debugging the backend.
    10. Slack
    11. Email
    12. Zoom
    • A bunch of other windows from other half competed / interrupted tasks.

    So realistically, often like 15+ at a baseline.