Bring Back SPACES! (Mission Control Sucks, Anyone Suggest Better Solutions?)

[HappyDude20]

Hi everyone,

boy do I not like mission control and have-not liked it for many years. I believe SPACES was absolutely wonderful. I know Spaces probably isn't coming back. The reason Im starting this thread here now in 2021 is that my work now forces me to be on my MacBook Pro at least 10 hours a day. I hate having to switch from one full screen to another. I have a 2017 MBP and feels sluggish.

I'm using the swipe three fingers up, I believe the name for it is expose where it shows me all of my open windows and I feel that's a better solution, and I believe Steve Jobs introduced this way back when around 2006.

I'm just wondering if there is any better solution that Mission Control and Full Screen Apps. I can see M.C. and Full screen Apps being useful if I had a Mac mini with multiple external monitors but otherwise, here on a 13 inch MBP, I don't need to swipe 3 times just to get to Zoom and 3 more swipes just to go back to Safari, and another swipe just to get something from my desktop.

 

[MacCheetah3]

I honestly don't recall the differences between the current implementation of Spaces and the previous/original.

Granted, it still may not work great with your workflow but have you tried the other means of moving about Spaces/apps?

• Triple finger swipe left or right to move from one space to another.
• Command + Tab to jump to an application -- macOS will automatically move to the appropriate Space, if a window for that app is not in the current Space.
• Control + left or right arrow key to move from Space to Space.

I also have Hot Corners set for Mission Control, Launchpad, Desktop, and Today View/Notifications. I sometimes feel it more convenient to throw my mouse cursor at a corner and skip the keyboard.

Sluggish meaning laggy? I ask because my elderly err vintage Mac mini moves about apps and Spaces very quickly.

 

[mj_]

Three finger swipe left or right will swipe between your spaces/desktops/fullscreen applications. I always use that on my MacBook Air since it's so much faster than swiping up then moving the cursor to the top of the screen to select a desktop from the horizontal list of available spaces.

 

[Gregg2]

Adapt or stop using technology. It's going to keep changing.

 

[HappyDude20]

Adapt or stop using technology. It's going to keep changing.

The solution was to never upgrade from Snow Leopard. I would gladly keep Spaces of it meant not using iCloud.

 

[shenfrey]

is there even that much difference?

 

[Ritsuka]

The only difference is that Spaces had a 2d grid, Mission Control is 1d, but you can simply use cmd+number to switch directly to a space. No one is forcing you to use the full screen mode.

 

[Gregg2]

The solution was to never upgrade from Snow Leopard. I would gladly keep Spaces of it meant not using iCloud.

Not upgrading the OS is a short term solution. I'm still on Mojave now, and I stuck with Snow Leopard for as long as I could. Eventually, the internet breaks the browser, meaning that security is no longer robust. So when I hit a wall, like not wanting to buy newer versions of apps just yet, I wait until I'm at risk, and buy a new Mac. Then I move on to whatever currently works.