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That'd drive me crazy. I switch between windows/apps far too frequently.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I run most in maximized. And do switching either by a alt tabbing or by using the custom hotkeys (with AutoHotkey) to start or activate (if already running) the programs mostly use. Like "Win + N" for Notepad++, "Win+G" for Chrome, "Win+C" for a command line shell etc. as soon as the hotkey combinations are muscle memory switching is a breeze.
I only ever have multipe windows side-by-side if I need/want to observe them at same time. Else they just look distracting.
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Any VM or remote desktop session and anything where I'm using Chromecast from desktop.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Everything. I alt-tab between windows.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Remarkable. That makes a fifth of people who've replied (so far) who "go large".
I was expecting it to be less.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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To be more precise I do have two full screens, with two windows. In my previous job I had one screen full with IDE and the other with docs/or a browser.
My present job is very different: on one screen I have my Windows stuff full of browser/pdf/total commander etc and the other is my Linux VM work env full screen. Although there my command prompt is split into four command prompts with the nifty Terminator shell. That could count as four windows... 
I could typically need four command prompts for
* Start server
* Start test client
* tail -f log
* find/grep around in source and config files
Some test scenarios involve as much as 4 different servers chatting to each other!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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On Windows, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Illustrator, SQL Management..
On MacBook, almost everything - it's really fluid to switch apps with a simple three-fingered flick left or right.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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All of them. I use alt-tab to switch windows.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Videos (sometimes), Cubase. I too prefer to click between windows rather than their taskbar icons, or hitting Alt-Tab or whatever.
I also hate having to minimize all the open windows just to find and click on a desktop shortcut icon to start a program, so I hide desktop icons and either start programs from the taskbar or its pop-up list of desktop items, or the Start menu.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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IDE is definitely maximized and I try to get rid of as many of the little windows inside it as possible, but then I'm old I started with BRIEF and had it set to 50 line mode. When I'm looking at code I don't need all that extra noise.
I've also in the past month moved from a Windows machine to a Mac. The development I'm currently working on is not Windows centric and the group of developers I'm now working with were mostly Silver Box people so I decided one more thing on my learning curve wouldn't be too much and I don't have to worry about the translation of how stuff gets done on Windows verses Mac.
That said, I hate the Mac version of alt-tab. If your current application is maximized and you Command-Tab to a different application the new application does not appear. Maybe this is a "I don't understand the Mac well enough yet" thing but it is a pain in the lower extremities.
And using a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: sing a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations
True. It's one of the reasons I prefer to see the background windows and click on them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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MarkTJohnson wrote: And using a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations.
Had the same sort of problems with my recent adventure with an Ubuntu VM under a Mac because the former mostly used the same shortcuts as my PC. Mostly I suffered the same reasons you did, lost time due to the Mac being a Mac was as least a learning experience. Setting up the dev environment again after the IT guy finally got me a loaner PC would've been pure waste.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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For LABView - and even then it's not enough!
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I tend to use everything exception Windows Explorer full screen, often because I have multiple copies of that open to different folders and drag files between. I also don't use console/powershell windows full screen. Oh, and calculator, because why would you.
Everything else, VS, Outlook, browsers, games, office apps etc. I use full screen with one on each of 2 or 3 monitors, and task switch between instances/apps via the keyboard.
That's probably just me though. I'm usually in the minority.
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Quote: Hello Windows Insider,
With the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update, we’d like to send a special thanks to developers like you.
Whether you posted to the Feedback Hub, or explored a feature or two on a Windows 10 Insider Preview build, your participation continues to help shape Windows for billions of people.
Of course, there’s always room for an even better version of Windows — and we’re already at work on our next major update. Be sure to check out the latest Insider Preview build for an early look at some of the great things that we’ll be co-creating with Windows Insiders.
[...]
Thanks, as always, for being a Windows Insider.
The Windows Insider Team
It is clear they didn't saw my comments, otherwise they would realize that Windows 10 is the second in line I used only in test phase and never intend to use it for real...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: we’re already at work on our next major update
God, No!
Please stop! Please!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Be prepared![^] 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So:
0. The ability to make shortcuts, like you can with every messaging app -- not needed; I want an OS and my own apps.
1. That bollocks they were talking about earlier, which is the modern day equivalent of flashing text.
2:Quote: It's unlikely that we'll see full Windows 10 running on phones in the fall however, so don't be holding your breath for that.
Because it's unlikely you'll even see a windows phone!
3:Quote: a feature that Insiders have been asking for ever since OneDrive placeholders got removed from Windows 10
"Insiders" meaning "marketing morons within ms itself".
4. The ability to connect speakers specifically for spyware a feature that no-one in their right mind uses.
5. More useless bloat promised for the future.
6. Tabs everywhere, which developers could already have used, if they wanted to (QED Xplorer2, Q-Dir, etc.)
... And no notification of which genuinely useful functionality they're either going to cut or break, this time around.
I can't wait.
... For Linux to become less command-line orientated.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mmmm ... Cortana enabled devices ... mmmm.
Obligatory XKCD: Listening[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I disabled that wonderful "feature" faster than you can say "siri".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Of course, there’s always room for an even better version of Windows — and we’re already at work on our next major update
Well initially that sentance raised hope, buuuuut confirmed they in fact have no intention of making windows better, instead their focus is 100% on further bloating it.
Time ms faced the foregone fact the pc is less and less becoming a consumer platform, even in business. Development is the only area the pc still seriously dominates, yet they are nackering developers for the sake of an unsavable shrinking consumer market share.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: Time ms faced the foregone fact the pc is less and less becoming a consumer platform, even in business
Hence windows 10IoT (which includes the old desktop OS).
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So useful, windows 10 in my toaster.
Either have to wait 10 minutes for the update before can cook the bread,
or if you're too fast pushing wait 10 minutes for it to pop up (not including use of the fire extinguisher at the 3 minute mark).
But seriously that's my point, they can do the windows 10 features on the devices,
but leave the damn pc alone (i.e. in 100% control by the owner) because it's the development platform for the devices' softwares. (and yes, 'softwares' is the correct word to use.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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And it needs a 32 GB disk to install on.....
And its called embedded? WTF is big enouigh to embed that in!
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Please... don't bash Microsoft so easily...
Of course you need a toaster with a built in SSD...
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