The 10 Coolest Things About macOS Ventura

pcmag.com:

If you’re reading this story, you probably know the annual ritual: Apple announces a new macOS version at WWDC, releases it as a public beta a few weeks later, updates the beta a few times, and finally offers it as a download for every compatible Mac sometime in the early fall. macOS Ventura is the name of Apple’s new operating system for the Mac, the successor to the current Monterey version. Ventura looks to be a welcome update, but not a transformational one like 2020’s Big Sur, the first version with support for Apple Silicon, and the first with the elegant user interface that Apple has continued to use with minimal changes in Monterey and now Ventura.

While Ventura likely won’t change your life, it will probably make it easier and more productive. If you have an Apple Developer account (which costs $99 per year), you can download a beta version now. If you’re a curious user and want to test the public beta when it arrives, you owe it to yourself to be cautious. Instead of installing it as an upgrade to your existing Monterey system, use the Disk Utility to create a new volume for it on your disk, and install it there.

We’ll have a full writeup when the public beta gets released. Apple won’t say when that will happen, but the company has already demonstrated enough new features and improvements to let us choose ten of the best right now.

The coolest-looking feature in Ventura is one that helps you focus on your work by moving the current app to the middle of the screen while moving all your other open windows to a stack of miniature images lined up on the left. In effect, they’re at stage left waiting in the wings until you click on one, at which point it takes center stage while the previous center-stage app moves