It’s such a shame that MacOS is such crap in 2025 (and it’s about to get worse with Tahoe, I’m sure of it). I have been a MacOS power-user for decades, and no matter how hard I try I just can’t use MacOS the way I want:

• I want to use spaces/desktops
• I want to use stage manager and show application windows on that space on the side
• I want windows to be a specific size each time I open them, and centered
• I want to use mission control and app expose
• I want to use the default ⌘-tab/` functionality
• I want to have a wallpaper set
• I want one window to show at a time, not a pile of them
• I want to use windows over tabs—so I might have multiple windows of Chrome open with multiple tabs in each
• I’d like to to use spotlight

The thing is that MacOS just doesn’t lend itself to working the freaking way it was built!

• Spaces work, for the most part: but sometimes when switching windows with CMD+Tab it randomly switches to a different window then a different space
• Stage Manager works, for the most part: except that sometimes it gets confused which window you are selecting, and also chooses different windows and sometimes doesn’t even select the window you chose in mission control/app expose
• Mission Control works-ish: except that it constantly re-arranges the windows in a new puzzle piece for me to de-cypher each time I use it
• ⌘-tab doesn’t support switcthing windows of the same app, I have to use AltTab for that (which doesn’t work right with spaces)
• If I want a wallpaper set I simply don’t get to see it unless I try and use the features above that just don’t work, ever!
• Spotlight is probably the one thing that works, except that it’s too slow: I use it (and things like Raycast, etc) to just launch apps, but if you can’t pull that app up instantly: goodbye (I use Sol ATM—but it needs help too)

It’s super disappointing, not to mention time-consuming and frustrating. This week I tried to set it all up again the way I wanted to use it: and the same shit keeps happening. And so I have to figure out hacks to get it to remotely work the way I want it to, which means:

• I have to continue to use AltTab to ⌘-tab/` that is natural
• I have to stop using spaces/desktops all-together
• I don’t get to have a wallpaper set because my windows will pile up over time—I won’t even get to see it
• Windows will pile up—no HazeOver doesn’t work: I’ll have to use HazeOver (sometimes doesn’t trigger right) and Blurred (doesn’t work on Finder) together to ensure I get one window at a time with a black background
• I have to disable mission control and app expose, they’re useless if you don’t use spaces: too many windows!

…that’s just to mention what’s in my mind at the moment—there is a lot more not right with MacOS. I would love to use all these really great features, but they just don’t work! It’s just so wrong that a trillion dollar company can’t get these things right for power-users. Bunch of bozos over there. And, no, Linux isn’t the answer—I don’t think…yet. I think it’s obvious that their focus is on iPhone: MacOS takes the back-seat, as I think the iPhone is pretty great—not much going wrong there.