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Nah. It's great. You can view hidden files in the file manager without memorizing a keyboard shortcut or terminal command. Most Window managers don't rely on track pad gestures and so the mouse feels like a first class citizen. Window management in the big DEs is better than macOS. MacOS is a frustrating mess to me.

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To each their own, I guess; in case anyone else is wondering:

"keyboard shortcut": Command-Shift-period

"terminal command": defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles yes

The vast majority of users (the U in UX) do not ever need to see a dotfile. In fact, you'd not want them anywhere near one.

So piss off the users that do? For a while there wasn't even the keyboard shortcut. Throw up a scary warning if you need to but I feel like it's a basic system function that should be included. Some how Windows manages to allow users to toggle hidden files through the GUI and I haven't heard of too many disasters because of it.

I would argue it's actually worse with the keyboard shortcut on OS X because it's completely possible for someone to trigger Cmd+Shift+. accidentally whereas in other OSs it's a clear toggled option in the GUI.

No because 99% of users will never need to look at a dotfile.

99% of users don't need remote SSH login on their Mac yet that has a GUI toggle...

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