Switching to a Mac After Decades on Windows

I mean the Magic Mouse is more a trackpad than a mouse.
You can do gesture and almost everything the Magic Trackpad can do.
I think he was comparing to a "normal" mouse for people with normal hands.

@Sébastien I often see people say that the trackpad does a lot more than the Magic Mouse. But I didn’t always use a Magic Mouse. Most third-party mice have multiple buttons that can be programmed to do the same types of things, though it would be better if Apple supported this more at the system level.

Tangentially related to the command-tilde remark, is anyone else annoyed by the inconsistency between command-tab and command-tilde?

If you press command-tab repeatedly (releasing the command key each time), it will toggle between the two frontmost applications (only if you hold down the command key will it cycle all applications).

On the other hand, if you press command-tilde repeatedly (releasing the command key each time), it will cycle between all windows. But, if, after invoking command-tilde once, you click inside the newly raised window, then pressing command-tilde again will toggle to the previous window.

This frustrates me to no end. Surely others have noticed and reported this? The command-tab behavior strikes me as clearly correct, and command-tilde seems just bizarre.

As someone that actually needs at minimum seven buttons on my mouse (for reasons I won't go into now), I can say that macOS works *great* with a mouse. But you may need to install third party software to get the most out of it.

If all you have is a basic three button mouse, then the most you can do out of the box is assign the middle click to do something useful like opening Mission Control or something like that. I'm figuring you'd want to keep the right click working as normal. So of course you can do a lot more with a Magic Mouse or a trackpad out of the box.

But once you have a few more buttons which is pretty normal these days, and pair it with an app like BetterTouchTool, SteerMouse, or dare I even recommend my own mouse gestures app xGestures, then your mouse can do *a whole lot more* than a trackpad. And now you have the advantage of true precision. It's hard for the computer to misinterpret pressing a button compared to a touch gesture.

Granted Apple's gesture recognition on their trackpads is pretty much best in class, and in the rare instances I'm using my laptop's trackpad it works really damn well. But not 100% of the time. I'll still have situations where I'll try to swipe rightwards to go back a page in Safari, and it won't activate and instead try to scroll horizontally. Or I'll do a five finger expand gesture to try and show the desktop, and nothing will happen, or it'll trigger half way and then all the windows settle back to where they were before. It's rare, but it happens. This never, ever happens with my mouse!

macOS’s window management was one of the reasons I switched away from it. Between the full screen option blacking out the second display (I wanted both to share a workspace), the lack of opinions about how to combine all its window management options (use what works for you) and realising I had replaced large chunks with bespoke scripts (cascading windows, toggle layouts, changing lots of shortcuts to be more consistent, using a number of third party tooling), made me realise I’m better off using an OS that is more open to personalisation and also happens to be snappier. .

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@MeX Fixed, thanks.