screen real estate

It’s crazy to me that in the Bay Area, everyone will pack housing so close together that the aerial view looks more like a box of sardines than a group of cities. Still I see engineers using macs with their docks maximized taking up 20% of the bottom of the screen. What’s the dock even good for? What does it add? How does it improve your workflow? Maybe it’s the vim user in me but taking your hands off of the keyboard is sinful and should be avoided as much as possible. With spotlight or it’s better, more bloated counterpart alfred, you can launch everything you want in second. Command + space; followed by the first 2 letters of whatever you are looking for. If you want to rotate through your current windows, just use Command + Tab. There’s no point giving away 20% of your screen for a dock. Currently I have the dock disables, and the menu bar as a pop-up. This ends up being a little annoying with mousing to different tabs while web-browsing; where the menu bar will show up out of nowhere but as far as I can tell, there’s no way to disable the menu bar in macos like there is for the dock. Secondly I searched for the browser which saved the most screen real estate. After all, every pixel matters! Bookmark bars are bad for the same reason, just have the new tab page point to a custom bookmark page. Chrome is the best in regards to screen real estate if it weren’t for firefox in compact mode. Safari was the worst out of the 3. I didn’t consider any other browser for obvious reasons.