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I'm using a Mac for software development at my current job. I prefer it over windows but I still hate it. Can't even alt tab through windows on that piece of garbage without extra software.
I just put each different program on a different virtual desktop and swipe through them.
Wow, that sounds awful. If you needed to use a touchpad their UX developers already failed.
You can do the separate desktops without using a touchpad, there are keyboard shortcuts to do that.
Still embarrassing that you need separate desktops to easily switch between active programs rather than just cycling through them on one desktop with alt+tab.
Not quite sure what the person is talking about really though. I am able to cmd+tab between applications, and cmd+~ between windows of an application.
So yes, you can't alt+tab, but you can have similar functionality.