Sometimes it’s faster. If I’m already using the mouse to change windows, I’ll use the context menu. If my hands are on the keyboard, I use keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl or ⌘ + C or V). It just depends on what you’re doing.
If you have them side by side, and you have many of them tiled, I guess you could Alt-Tab through them, but I find it easier to click.
If I’m clicking between three windows and I have four open, do you really think it’s quicker to Alt-Tab? On the Mac I just hit F3 which is Mission Control which I wish Windows had (it’s basically a more elegant Alt-Tab; we have ⌘+Tab but that’s only icons, same thing but not as pretty).
Forgive my ignorance as a non-Mac user, but isn’t the screen that shows up when pressing WIN+Tab similar? It shows all your open windows and their content, plus (iirc) let’s you switch to/create additional desktops.
Sometimes it’s faster. If I’m already using the mouse to change windows, I’ll use the context menu. If my hands are on the keyboard, I use keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl or ⌘ + C or V). It just depends on what you’re doing.
Where else would your other hand be but the keyboard?
Petting the cat (genuine reason to use the context menu)
People use the mouse to switch windows?
I have alt+tab bound to a mouse button.
If you have them side by side, and you have many of them tiled, I guess you could Alt-Tab through them, but I find it easier to click.
If I’m clicking between three windows and I have four open, do you really think it’s quicker to Alt-Tab? On the Mac I just hit F3 which is Mission Control which I wish Windows had (it’s basically a more elegant Alt-Tab; we have ⌘+Tab but that’s only icons, same thing but not as pretty).
Forgive my ignorance as a non-Mac user, but isn’t the screen that shows up when pressing WIN+Tab similar? It shows all your open windows and their content, plus (iirc) let’s you switch to/create additional desktops.
Kind of… it’s actually my go-to on Windows 11, which I have to use at work.
Windows actually only recently supported multiple desktops, which Mac and Linux have had for a while.
FWIW, this used to work better when “cascade windows” was a standard thing.