I tried Stage Manager on my desktop in macOS 26. There’s not much to say about it, because it didn’t click for me. I just don’t work with that many big windows.
If there’s a truly huge window like an image editor, that tends to be the only thing I’m using “at one time,” and there’s no need to Stage Manage through them. When there is, Cmd+Tab has worked well.
When I’m working hard on my personal website, it tends to involve four windows arranged spatially: Podman Desktop, MacVim, and iTerm2 non-overlapping on one workspace, and Firefox (and its dev tools) on the next.
I was confused about the order of apps in the sidebar. I eventually realized they were “swapping” between the app being restored and the one being minimized when changing apps, but that didn’t really help in terms of efficiency. Using several apps in sequence means they keep moving around instead of having a consistent placement.
It might be more of a revelation on a laptop, where having half the screen size means having a quarter of the area for individual windows. Or maybe I’m just set in my ways after 30 years.
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