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Comment by Lramseyer | Hacker News Reader

How about the option to remove the dock entirely? Spotlight and Launchpad are preferable alternatives for opening apps, Mission Control works way better for switching between apps, and the list of running apps can be stuffed into the top menu with a pulldown list that can display diagnostic info and give a nice way to switch-to or force quit.

I hide the dock and keep it off to the side, as I find it more annoying than useful.

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Do most people actually use Launchpad? Your comment is the first time I’ve encountered anyone who uses it.

Whereas I cannot stand Spotlight, Launchpad, or Mission Control.

Any time I use a different machine, those are the first things that I completely and totally disable.

For me, the dock and the menu bar are much better solutions than any of the above, and they are in the category of "if it ain't broke, don't bloody flippin' fix it!!!"

I have to agree with you, with the exception of Spotlight. Spotlight for me is just simpler of an app launcher for my rarely used apps than Alfred (though I use Alfred for other features), though I do miss Quicksilver. But Launchpad is worthless for me, and I've never had a time when Mission Control hasn't just choked for a noticeable amount of time (I've even had 4 seconds of UI lockup just waiting for it to show up). Granted, I tend to keep a lot of apps open, but still, it's irritating whenever I accidentally trigger it or accidentally move a window to a different Space (this is on a still very capable mid-2014 Retina MBP with the highest specs available), and I much prefer using Keyboard Maestro to open/focus my most used apps (if the app is open, focus the foremost window, hit the combination again to bring all app windows forward; if it's closed, open it), and for window switching, Witch does the job faster and more logically than Mission Control. And I agree about the Dock and menu bar. Sadly the Dock is easy to hide for those who don't want it visible, but Mission Control and Spaces can't be disabled (AFIK, I'd love to be wrong).

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