How to get Windows style Alt+Tab window switching on MacOS

Neither command-Tab nor Cmd-` run linearly. They should both be ordered by most recently used. I don't even think there is a setting to control it. It should be working as you desire it to. I don't know why it wouldn't.

It might be app specific. ⌘Tab definitely keeps things ordered by most recently used. Which is great. But, ⌘` doesn't seem to. At least not when it comes to vscode. It just cycles through them.

I can't understand why anyone likes Full Screen. Do you all only work on a single document that has no reference to anything else?

I've always kept everything maximized. Fullscreen on the Mac is like even more full. Which is awesome. From there I Alt+Tab between everything.

So, I've been searching for a solution to this for quite a while. I've had this new Mac for a few months.

I've come across quite a number of apps that claim to offer similar things. There's even an open source one that's simply called AltTab. That one sounded perfect. Unfortunately, my company requires us to have SentinelOne installed for anti-virus, anti-malware, etc. And it's decided that AltTab is in violation citing something called persistence_deception.

That has me hesitant to go installing more apps before I bring the wrath of the IT department down upon myself. This is causing me to want to spend some more time trying to find a native solution.

I think I'm close to what I want with how ⌘Tab switches apps and ⌘~ (or is it ⌘`) switches windows within the same app.

The main problem with this is, the switching ⌘~ does, doesn't include any windows that are in fullscreen mode. It only switches between windows that are in normal? desktop? mode. I'm actually loving the fullscreen mode MacOS provides. Definitely better than maximize in Windows. So I'm using it a ton.

Then there's another problem. It's something I could probably live with, but it's definitely not ideal. ⌘~ only cycles through windows in a loop. I wish it also switched between them the way ⌘Tab does it. It maintains a stacking order. So, switching back and forth between my two most recent windows means I don't have to cycle through all of them.

Alot of helpful info here. Many thanks to everyone who shared.

So, i ended up going back and trying that AltTab again. That turned into a whole bunch of drama that I won't get into. In the end my IT department has whitelisted it. (not sure for how long... lol)

Only just getting started with it, but It seems to do what I want. It's Alt+Tab the way it's always worked on Windows and Linux. Now I have the best of both worlds! huzzah!