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You have to remember if there is a window open in any of the desktops, because the dock does not even provide info on this.

It just tells you that it has a program in memory, like it can help my workflow.

Dock in macos is a useless process manager, not a taskbar.

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I like macOS's window management in general but this is a good point. The dot indicators on the dock tell you whether an application is running, which on macOS doesn't necessarily mean it has any windows open. Clicking a dock icon results in a different action based on whether the application does have open windows, which is not visually indicated.

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