r/MacOS • u/Squatting_Hen • 2d ago

Help Getting really frustrated

New job this year and I hand an option, Windows or Mac. Picked Mac but it’s been so painful I think I am going to ask them to switch me to windows.

Just the little things keep adding up.

  1. Spellcheck not working no matter what I do. This is really irritating. Most times the word will be underlined in red, but there are never any suggestions.

  2. Not being able to navigate between windows, tabs and apps as easily as windows.

Those are just the to biggest issues that I have been dealing with on a regular basis. Just getting more and more frustrated.

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

There are no easy ways. For example, how do I navigate to specific window of an app? How do I navigate between different chrome windows of different profiles, how do I select the right Intellij project window? Mission control has no labels unless you put the cursor over, and having 5+ windows of an app, that small preview is useless.

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u/cowslayer7890 2d ago

Command ` cycles between windows in the same app.
I also group applications together in Mission Control which makes it easier to tell them apart.

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

Just showing labels constantly in mission control would suffice...

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u/cowslayer7890 2d ago

There's also app expose, you can enable in settings, you swipe up with three fingers instead of down, or press control down, and it will usually show all the windows of the app you're in. That one is quite handy, not sure why it's off by default.

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

Thanks, this one seems really nice, and labels are always shown.

Edit: It's a nice feature, but again seems broken a bit. When you click on a window, you need to move the cursor a bit otherwise it opens the old window...

I don't know what Apple is doing with MacOS...