macOS

Let’s talk about the stop-light buttons—the red, yellow, and green buttons at the top left of each window. Nobody uses the green button;

Speak for yourself

we all want to keep the status bar in sight.

Turn it on in the settings (“Always show menu bar” or whatever it’s called). I have too.

Why not make the green button just maximize the window, like Windows does?

Why doesn’t Windows just add a top menu bar like macOS? Operating systems are allowed to do things differently from another and that’s a good thing.

Use yellow for hiding the app and red for closing the app (not just the window). Most users already use shortcuts (CMD+Q, CMD+H, CMD+M) anyway

The window controls are for controlling the window (surprise surprise!!!), not for the app. Use the dock icon/app menu or the shortcuts.

(whereas CMD+M should maximize, not minimize, the window!).

There is a shortcut now for the new Fill action, Ctrl+Fn+F. Or add one yourself for the Zoom action.

I cannot overstate how much I would despise any of these changes. I’m using macOS more and more because of how its UI works, and because there is no Linux distro/desktop that works like it.

Everyone would like to have a dedicated database for screenshots

What for? The screenshot tool is completely fine for me. Most of the time I copy them directly to wherever (a conversation for example), and if I want to keep them I move them to a folder on my network share. You can already set the default save location but it would be nice to be able to save them directly to the Photos app like it does on the iPhone, I suppose.

Agree on the bad mouse support and having to keep it from sleeping with Caffeine though. Builtin mouse handling and sleep behavior is godawful and they should fix that.