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Make your desired windows fullscreen, then swipe side to side on the trackpad (3 or 4 fingers) to switch between them almost instantly. One of the best features of MacOS, IMO.


If almost instantly means 700 milliseconds on a regular monitor and 950 milliseconds on a 21:9 monitor, sure, instantly.


Really nice, unless you have a big-ish screen. It is jarring to have the entire screen slide back and forth, and of course a bad use of screen real estate.


But it doesn't work so well if you prefer to use a conventional external mouse.

I was stuck using the shortcuts (ctrl + left or right arrow key), or clicking the Mission Control button I had to pin to the Dock.


Gnome does the same. Slow, jarring and pretty useless for mouse+keyboard or displays larger than laptop sized.

"Just swish your virtual desktops around" seems extremely convoluted when I just want to switch between different windows.




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