I find many folks who dislike Mac's window management paradigm are unaware that there is a keystroke for cycling through app windows: Cmd-~ (tilde).
This may help you, or others.
This may help you, or others.
I also miss ability to snap the window to the left or right of the screen with keyboard shortcut - windows key + arrow keys. Is there a mac equivalent that I am missing?
That said, when I did a lot of travel, and worked on my laptop without any external screens, I was a big fan of Divvy (https://mizage.com/divvy/).
Also, here's a list of some keyboard shortcuts that folks may enjoy:
since that's a bit hard to parse:
press and hold command press tab until the applicaiton you want is highlighted in the switcher popup press and hold option release command
For snapping to the side of the screen, you need to add the shortcut yourself, but macOS allows you to do this. You need to:
open system preferences open the keyboard preference pane open the shortcuts tab select the App shortcuts category press + make sure All Applications is selected in the Application dropdown (should be by default) enter the following in the Menu title (case sensitive): Tile Window to Left of Screen choose your shortcut (highlight the shortcut input field and press the shortcut) and then hit Add repeat for the right side of the screen
technically some apps do not support split screen, for those you may want to override the shortcut with the action "Move Window to Left of Screen", overriding the shortcut on an app-by-app basis is done by adding another shortcut specific to that app with the same shortcut but a different action.
OSX is _Application Centric_ while Windows is _Window Centric_. The fact that in OSX I first have to navigate to the App, then once in that app navigate to a specific window that may or may not be visible is frustrating. On windows you cycle between windows that are in a stacked order that has no relation to the application that owns them (they are first-class citizens for the OS). It's more focused on your workflow of documents and not applications. Also, in Windows, if I select a minimized window it will un-minimize the window automatically for me while OSX seems to thing making the focus on the application in that case is enough, even if all the windows for the application are hidden.
These seem like trivial differences, but they are fundamental changes in workflow that trip a lot of people up. Also, FWIW, many (most?) window managers on Linux follow the same window centric workflow.
Note: If I'm slightly off on any OSX related weirdness, feel free to correct me. I switched back to Windows once WSL was a working alternative and haven't really looked back. The only thing I really miss in the _AMAZING_ trackpads.