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I strongly recommend them for programming.
They save me so much time.
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I use shortcuts heavily, but Win+number is something I never get used to despite knowing them. They way they work when you have multiple X programs opened (say, editors, explorers..) is kinda weird and I ended up just using alt+tab, which is much easier to press anyway.
Microsoft's PowerToys has a shortcut guide that might help get you over that last hurdle towards using win+number effectively. Might want to give it a look.
start "" "\7plus-Taskbar-Numberer\64\7+ Taskbar Numberer.exe" -v2 -hidewnd
Can people hit their function keys without looking at the keyboard? Sure, hitting F5 to go to your terminal is less keystrokes than e.g. Cmd+tab+tab, but I can't hit anything in the function row without glancing down at my keyboard. And I put a lot of value in looking at my keyboard as little as possible
Would be nice to have a usb keypad and perhaps a little oled screen in each keycap to implement this… my function keys are pretty overloaded with stuff now.
A related comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34246255
You are using computers wrong.
Apple is the only one that lacks this. Windows and most linux WM have this for at least 20 years!
windows you just use WIN+[1,2,3,4...] to alternate between your quick launch apps.
Linux obviously you have a myriad of options. Including the top comment here now about using virtual desktops which is even better than application (but you can mix them too!)
And all that while still keeping your Fkeys functionality on each application!
The time I was forced to use a Mac for development was the time my productivity was lowest and frustration highest.
I'm fully convinced that Macs exist only because managers (and wanna be managers) make those decisions. Not to mention i've worked on employeer provided apple, dell, hp, lenovos... macs were the only ones i had to send to IT with failing keyboards, dead screens, etc.
Would be nice to have a usb keypad and perhaps a little oled screen in each keycap to implement this… my function keys are pretty overloaded with stuff now.
Though I’d rather have function keys back instead of the touchbar, as changing volume/brightness now requires looking at the keyboard as well as a certain precision/dexterity.
Edit: formatting.