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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+(OP)
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+k1
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+fm
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.