Hiding vs. minimizing

By glassheart, 15 May, 2021

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macOS and Mac Apps

What is the concept difference on the mac in Big Sur with hitting Command+H to hide a window, vs. hitting command+M to minimize? It seems like hitting Command+H to hide is putting things in the Command+Tab sequence and moving the app focus away from being in the foreground. Seems to me that this is doing exactly what minimizing with alt+Space then the letter n does on the Windows side of things. So, what's the difference? As a Voiceover user, is there any instant where I'd want to use Command+M to minimize instead of hiding?

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