I thought at the time this was a good thing, but the myriad ways they conflict have changed my mind. Some podcaster, probably Siracusa, said that the Mac is overburdened with ways to manage windows. I expect the novelty will wear off soon and I will just switch back to my old ways. For me to use Stage Manager means a complete rethink of where stuff is. You may have your dock on the bottom and not use files on the Desktop (really?). It may be the way you use your Mac does not conflict like I had. Which kinda removes the need for the Stage thumbnails turning the feature into simple window groups… which you can achieve already with Spaces. Picking one of the windows opens that Stage. You can, however, use the Mission Control gesture like before and see all of the windows open on all of the Stages on the current Space.This makes interacting with window contents on the edge of the display a little hazardous (as has always been the case with auto-hiding the Dock). If your current Stage has a window that covers the same edge of the screen as the Thumbnails, they are not visible until you move the mouse pointer near the edge, then they pop out, but in a different style - 2D instead of 3D. There are no gestures or keyboard shortcuts to switch Stages you have to look for the (fairly small) thumbnail of the Stage you want and click on it.There are easy gestures and keyboard shortcuts to switch Spaces, so you don’t really need to be able to see the off-screen Spaces they’re super quick to shuffle through if you don’t remember where things are.If you like to auto-hide your dock on the left or right, getting to your files will involve fighting with either the Dock or Stage Manager. If you have your Dock on the left, Stage Manager thumbnails appear on the right.Unfortunately, having linked Spaces is, I think, the only way to banish the menu bar from non-primary displays. Arguably, Stage Manager diminishes (or even removes) the need for Spaces. To turn on Stage Manager you cannot have your Spaces linked on multiple screens.I’ve had about half an hour of playing with Stage Manager and come to the conclusion that it is functionally identical to Spaces but with added restrictions/conflicts. After finally getting enough information on my critical software’s compatibility (what is it with bigger vendors just not saying?) I took the plunge today and upgraded to Ventura.

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