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> I really want to easily switch to the previous window, not the previous app. Command + backtick doesn't work either. It doesn't switch to the previous window. It switches to the previous window "in the same app" which is not actually the previous window as that could be from another app.

I really can't figure out what your issue is after reading this several times. If the last active window was a different app, you hit Cmd+Tab. If the last active window is from the same app, you hit Cmd+`

>>hbn+(OP)
I’m not sure why I should be thinking about whether my last active window was in the same or different app.

In windows it doesn’t matter whether I switched from a Chrome window to a Firefox window or from one Firefox window to another one.

The cognitive load is way less.

Also, CMD+’ is way more ergonomically inconvenient to hit.

>>addict+d1
I guess it's a matter of preference. I use both Mac and Windows and I prefer Mac's way of doing it. Sometimes I'll have 3 IntelliJ windows open + my terminal, along with a dozen other apps that are on other desktops/workspaces that I'm currently not using. So it's nice that I can bounce between the IntelliJ windows for editing my code with Cmd+`, then when I need to hop into the terminal I do Cmd+tab, do my stuff, then Cmd+tab and I'm back in the code. Maybe it's a learning curve but it feels very natural to me.

> Also, CMD+’ is way more ergonomically inconvenient to hit.

What fingers are you using for Cmd+tab if that's comfortable but not Cmd+`? It's exactly 1 key above tab.

>>hbn+x2
It’s not just 1 row above. It’s also a smaller key.

If you do treat it like you would CMD+Tab, the odds are you would hit CMD+1 fairly often.

>>addict+sn
I'm really not sure why you think that would happen. It's like you're saying the Q key is in an inconvenient place because it's too small so "odds are you would hit W fairly often"

It's on the side of the keyboard. If you're on tab, you just feel for one key up.