Why do Windows users tend to keep app windows maximized to full screen, while macOS users don't?

Question

User interface

More precisely, what exactly in the design of the macOS interface teaches the user to keep application windows not full screen, even if Windows had such a habit?
The question is based only on my own observations, so there is a risk that it does not make sense.

Answer 1

Because the desktop and full screen expansion work differently on makosi.
And navigation through the screens goes, and not switching between active windows like on Windows.
If you expand it to full screen on a macOS (using the green “maximize” window button), then you won’t be able to work with two windows, for example, the deployed software will always be on its screen without everything else. No windows can be placed on top of it, only if something else is stretched next to half the screen.
At the same time, there is a second mode - double-clicking anywhere on the window header, then the window will just unfold like in Windows. But I still could not master this option. navigation is more convenient when using multiple desktops. And it turns out that there seems to be a mode like in Windows, but it seems to be out of place here at all. Although sometimes it helps when you still need to use several related windows (for example, Chrome + Developer Tools in a separate window when developing a chrome extension is generally the only possible way to work).
So it just works differently. And in Windows it is sometimes more convenient than on a poppy, but on a poppy there are pluses.

Answer 2

I do not keep windows in any OS deployed since the time when CRTs went into oblivion and monitors with a large diagonal appeared.
I guess mac drivers don't do that, the push screen is big and you're tormented by turning your head all the time. Everything should be in front of your eyes.

Answer 3

I have a 3440 * 1440 monitor, I use each window for half the screen, it turns out like two.
On macos, let's start with the fact that by default the window does not unfold at all, but goes into full screen mode, but there, with alt, it seems like unfolding goes like in Windows to full screen. But when I worked on a poppy, I installed the shiftit utility, where it was possible, like in Windows, win + left to place half the screen on the left ...
It generally depends on the task, for example, it is more convenient to leave the same messenger with a small window ...

Answer 4

How comfortable it is to hold.
What's the point of keeping the window you're working in not fully maximized? This is inconvenient, it limits the workspace, except for the window with the necessary information, any garbage is displayed in the background.
Therefore, I opened the application - deployed it to full screen and work.
You only minimize if you need to see several windows at the same time, which is not often the case.
It is clear that the same messenger or player will not be deployed to the full - because you do not work in it.
I have no idea how it could work any other way.
Didn't work on mac.

Answer 5

It seems to me that the reason is that on a Mac, full-screen windows unfold very clumsily. Those who at least once expanded the window to full screen (not full screen mode), but simply "maximize" know that this happens at about 10fps and this animation shows with all its appearance that this is not necessary. Now it works more or less normally (but still freezes), but before it was generally terrible.

Answer 6

When I work on a macbook, I expand all the windows to the fullest. When with a connected monitor (it is large), then naturally the windows are not maximized to full screen so that several applications can be seen at the same time. But sometimes I deploy there, if there is a need.

Answer 7

Because they don't know how to do it ☺

Answer 8

I understand that this is a Toaster, but my God, what kind of garbage is published and people even respond ...

Answer 9

Because windows works differently on MacOS. If you press the green button, which at first glance is similar to the “full screen” button in Windows, then the window will not only open in full screen, but will create a new desktop and settle in it alone. In this case, all other windows will remain on the desktop, on which they were. This is far from always convenient and counter-intuitive for neophytes who have moved from Windows and Linux. That is why many (but actually not all) MacOS users use applications in windowed mode more often.