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I'm a first time MacOS user thanks to issued equipment. Three months in and I hate it. Scroll acceleration is definitely in the top five list of reasons why.

The goofy keyboard shortcuts, the crummy window switching (switching between applications is different than switching between instances of an application), and wretched window management (inconsistent behavior around maximizing windows-typically bad-and no half or quarter screen snapping) are also on the list.

I'd be much happier with a Linux or Windows machine.



Funny because I can’t stand alt tab in Windows anymore. Alt tabbing through a bunch of windows just to go back to the other app I want to use. It used to be worse before tab systems collapsed all the window spam.

These days I like the distinction between tabbing through an app vs across apps. Only peeve is that alt tabbing to a minimized app should restore it.


I disable that wherever possible since I find it incredibly annoying. I just never have enough windows to want nested window switching.


Contexts.app (paid software) restores window/Linux alt1tab behavior.

Rectangle.app (OSS) does window snapping and does tiling-lite (which is what I want). I forget the name of the actually tiling WM.

Hammerspoon+custom script off github will get you drag move/resize functionality.


I’d recommend grabbing BetterSnapTool for window snapping. https://folivora.ai/bettersnaptool




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