And there is absolutely no way, that I could find, to create or pin a shortcut to eg WinTerm, which would launch it as admin.

You are not far off. In my previous project we attempted to rewrite a desktop app and we started with a skeleton crew. Hiring for the frontend was tough, we got one very good xaml (wpf / winui etc) dev in the first year. Then, in the middle of the corona lockdowns, for 12 months we kept only getting mediocre candidates from across the world, with no relevant experience whatsoever. Then we found our second full time frontend dev, who only stayed 3 months and once he saw how clueless management is, bolted.

Funnily enough the aforementioned manager experts started asking what’s wrong and why we ‘fail to fill the positions’. We were stuck in the native desktop world product-wise, an unattractive and challenging tech stack with difficult problems to solve, with poor management and low budget. That’s what was up. Now I’m happily working on the backend / web / cloud side of things and I’m definitely not looking back or picking up another tech lead position for a project with non existent team to start with. /o\

Alight, thanks. Let’s see if I can explain this.

I couldn’t find native support for the following:

• snap windows left and right with keyboard shortcuts (Win Key + Arrows on Windows)
• set a default output device (eg speakers), but select apps (Spotify for example) should output through my USB DAC.
• I can tab between applications, but the only way to tab between all active Windows was with a third party app. It mostly works fine, but has a few quirks.

So maybe I missed it or we are talking about the same things. Can you point me at the right thing to look for? Since you seem to be aware how these work natively.

• snapping windows by keyboard shortcuts (Win Key + Arrows on Windows)
• I want to have one output device by default (eg speakers), but select apps (Spotify for example) should output through my USB DAC.
• I can tab between applications no problem, but when I looked up how to change between windows of the same app (eg text editors), I came up with nothing. How is the shortcut called?

Cheers

Can you point me at the right settings? I googled around and that’s what I found. Maybe I came up with old results which aren’t up to date?

MacOS is extremely barebones. Almost two years ago I got a MacBook to work on a customer project. Until then I’ve only been on Linux and Windows 10. And boy was I in for a surprise. I kind of got used to it, but let me give you a few examples.

You want to tab between windows and not apps? Better pay for an app. You want to snap your windows left or right? An app. You want to control which app outputs to which audio device? You guessed it - an app. Clipboard? App. Configure mouse acceleration? An app (linear mouse).

I mean, the OS is polished and looks great. And if all you do is swoosh windows left and right in Starbucks, that’s all you need. But for anyone else it’s just sad how little it supports out of the box.