Anonymous
10/26/2025, 2:59:58 AM
No.107009108
>>107007888
you do realize that macs had multi-monitor support a long time before windows, right? Not surprising because it fits its design philosophy rather well.
The whole point of having a GUI is to do as many things as possible using a mouse. Drag and drop is immediately intuitive, and can be consistently used to do just about everything on a mac. Having large screen real-estate with many floating windows is how you properly leverage this feature. Using every window maximized (or feeling compelled to minimize inactive ones) is a CLI user's idea of a GUI, they are still thinking of windows as a virtual terminals rather than dynamic documents.
You want information about open documents? Just leave them there, un-minimized, like you would leave different pieces of paper on a real desk. Don't worry about neatness. Try dragging and dropping more often, even if your windows-conditioned brain is telling you that it wouldn't work.
All of this was figured out it in 1984 and a lot of productive work was done using this exact same paradigm. The fact that the user experience has changed so little despite 4 decades and 3 CPU architecture transitions is the sort of consistency unheard of software, and is still beloved by its users for a reason.
you do realize that macs had multi-monitor support a long time before windows, right? Not surprising because it fits its design philosophy rather well.
The whole point of having a GUI is to do as many things as possible using a mouse. Drag and drop is immediately intuitive, and can be consistently used to do just about everything on a mac. Having large screen real-estate with many floating windows is how you properly leverage this feature. Using every window maximized (or feeling compelled to minimize inactive ones) is a CLI user's idea of a GUI, they are still thinking of windows as a virtual terminals rather than dynamic documents.
You want information about open documents? Just leave them there, un-minimized, like you would leave different pieces of paper on a real desk. Don't worry about neatness. Try dragging and dropping more often, even if your windows-conditioned brain is telling you that it wouldn't work.
All of this was figured out it in 1984 and a lot of productive work was done using this exact same paradigm. The fact that the user experience has changed so little despite 4 decades and 3 CPU architecture transitions is the sort of consistency unheard of software, and is still beloved by its users for a reason.