Simple Tasks in Windows 11 vs macOS Sonoma
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- In this video we’re going to take a look at how simple tasks differ between Windows 11 and macOS Sonoma.
As you'll be able to see in the video, the core UX philosophy behind most of what we're going to discuss is actually very similar.
However, given the practical differences between the two user interfaces and keyboard layouts, it’s only natural that the steps you need to take in order to get things done are going to be a bit different themselves.
So, in case you’re thinking about switching from one to the other, it’s worth taking a moment to see how things compare.
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Chapters:
0:00 Similarities & Differences
0:58 Opening a File Manager
2:07 Copy/Cut & Paste
2:47 Deleting Files & Folders
3:10 Navigating Through Windows
3:43 Snapping Windows
4:45 Fullscreen Screenshots
5:49 Selection Screenshots
6:53 Renaming a Single File
7:11 Batch Renaming
7:59 Copying Paths
8:26 Jumping To a Location
8:47 Force Task Ending
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References:
Instructions for Alt+Tab in macOS:
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these stuffs are really interesting when you have exams tomorrow.
lmao fr
Lmao I have to do a model for architecture and I’m watching this
Not me sitting here 💀
legit have a biology midterm tomorrow and it's 11 pm idk what i'm doing
Frrrr 😭🤌
Copy paste is one of the most basic things we do so I was surprised you didn't mention the clipboard history tool in Windows. You need to activate it in settings an than it holds the history of what you've copied (up to a limit with no way to change the number saved) and Windows key + V brings up a history what you'e copied and you can paste it again. They also have a sync option between devices through One Drive I believe but I don't use it.
I don't know about OneDrive, but I have installed Smartphone-Link and connected it with my smartphone, and the clipboard synchronization works quite nice.
@@jojojux Microsoft made this option available only wis "selected devices" that includes "One UI version 2.1 or above or select HONOR devices (1.22036.14.0 or later) or OPPO devices (1.23093.0 or later)".
OnePlus is going to offer this also. Others need to find other ways to do this with their phone.
Bro didnt even mention DRAG AND DROP. 😅
Whaaa? Thanks for the Win + V tips.
Windows clipboard is VERY useful. Its a Gods send.
I think my takeaway from this is that macOS is actually a lot less polished than one would expect
To be fair, you’d have to have a pretty high IQ to properly use and understand macOS.
How so?
Yeah. And you rarely will ever see a mac os user with a iq above 10.@@Adam-326
@@its0xFULit simply just is, for some reason. mainly: multitasking, window management, consistency, user friendliness, and doing everyday tasks
Other than native window snapping, which is patented by Microsoft btw, Mac OS is much better to navigate using trackpad gestures that windows just can’t compete with
8:31 You can jump to a location in windows with the Win+R command
7:00 You can also change the file name if you just click on the file/foldername/program name
3:19 there's also a win+tab command to move between apps and virtual desktops and also a 3 fingers gesture with the trackpad to move between apps and a four fingers gersture to move between virtual desktops.
It's also possible to paste the full patch on Windows Search then CTRL+V to paste it or just paste it on the Search bar in Start Menu. Similar to Spotlight. Though Run Command is more reliable due to simply strictly on opening file path, while Windows Search will sometimes thinks you are searching the web for some reason.
Bro casually watched the video from right to left.
you can just press the Windows key and then Ctrl+V
I never realised how inelegant macOS's keyboard shortcuts are.
what do you mean?
Holding command + option + shift + alt + windows + spacebar + 4 to screenshot a specific window seems intuitive enough! /s
@@Mkrabs he didn't mention that you can just press cmd-shift-5 and have access to all the screenshot options in one UI, similar to snipping tool in Windows. Also, it lets you record videos too
I learned some new Windows shortcuts too.
I use both macOS and Windows and I find a lot of Windows shortcuts awkward like alt+f4 to close a window while on macOS it's just cmd+q
@@amitkulkarni3922 and force quit is cmd-opt-esc instead of ctrl alt delete
Command tab is NOT the same as Alt tab. 3:10
Alt tab cycles through the recent windows. It is convenient for common window switching tasks.
Command tab only cycles through apps. It seems to work the same until you need to switch between 2 windows of the same app. Then you need to use command tilde which only cycles through windows of the current app. Mac keyboard navigation becomes maddeningly unintuitive when you need to switch between 3 windows of 2 apps.
To do the same in mac, you have to first select the app for example excel and then do Command + ` in which it will automatically shift you to the next sheet and suppose you want to go to the 10th excel sheet or file, you have to keep pressing the same command 10 times, in windows you get a preview of it and its easy. Ctrl+Tab is the OS X keyboard shortcut for switching between currently running programs.
Also, why do I see my “closed” apps when i hold cmd + tab. Because when i tab onto a closed app, it doesnt show. I have to manually select the app in the Dock. Cmd tab should not show closed apps lol
Minimized* apps
tell me you didnt read the whole comment without telling me. Guy already said that@@NoelJrComia
Command tab is a piece of shit
There's something you might miss in the Full screenshot. If you press Win+PrtScr, it will also save a file in the screenshot folder. If you only want the screenshot be stored in the clipboard, press Ctrl+PrtScr
Full screen screenshot without have to store it on storage should just hit PrtScr. To save a windowed screen capture, add Win Key to Alt+Print Screen
@@kouki1973 In my settings, pressing PrtScr will open snipping tool, just like Win+Shift+S, and I just talking about full screen capture. Maybe your settings is different than mine
Sup fellow Hatsune miku fan
Window shift S
Thank you for this!
I get everything, but Shift+Cmd+4+Spacebar? That's the most impractical shortcut I've ever seen.
When the preview of the screenshot shows up in the bottom right corner, you can drag it anywhere like a file, or right click it and click "Save to clipboard". You don't need to use that shortcut at all.
Nah, actually he messed that up a bit, as you press the spacebar afterwards. Tbh works really well irl
that's because it is. he just decided to take screenshots in the most inefficient way for some reason. it's command option 3 for cropped screenshots, or 4 for full screen if i remember correctly. same number of keys as windows shift s
A simple misunderstanding. In screenshot mode, you can hit spacebar to quickly switch between rectangle tool and windows selection tool. There's no "shift+cmd+4+spacebar" shortcut.
@@amputatedhairstrandsit is the same number of keys, yes, but Win+Shift+S is way easier to hit (unless you are not using qwerty) than cmd+opt+4.
I'm not sure most people can even do it without doing some finger gymnastics
2:08 May I suggest that you can just use drag & drop if you have both windows open like that? Windows will decide wether the file is moved or copied depending on the context. Alternatively you can hold shift while performing the drag & drop action to force moving the file or hold ctrl to make it copy the file. Idk if this works on macOS, but it probably does
@@blakeyflake If it's not the same drive and you hold shift while drag and dropping, the file will be moved instead.
You can hold COMMAND while dragging a file to copy it, otherwise it always gets moved :)
@@blakeyflake Correct. When I was writing my comment I thought "Maybe Windows will suggest to copy a file if you only have read permissions" so I chose more general wording. However it seems to be entirely dependant on weither it is on the C:\ Drive or any other drive like you said. Alas, Windows does not take such complexities into account.
@@blakeyflake I should get used to doing it that way more. I can remember holding right click by accident on one of the icons on my desktop and it bringing up a context menu for it. Other than just move and copy it holds a few more options like "create a shortcut here" or funnily enough the 7zip menu, since I have that installed. Ironically this is now one of the nicest ways to unzip a folder to "extract to zipname\" on Windows 11 since it doesn't use the stupid new context menu, even using it in the same directory.
@@its0xFULSounds convenient
this kind of video is always fun to watch because invariably the macos version is missing huge details. like shift-command-5, which brings up a screenshot utility where all types are immediately available to the user. can even screen record and save to a specific location from there.
Still, macos has the window management among all.
CMD+Shift+5 ..? Have you tried using a mac
It's not like the Windows version isn't missing stuff.
I mean he also didn’t demonstrate windows completely accurately either
For screenshots on macOS, there’s also Shift-Cmd-5, which brings up a GUI bar with a few different options, and also includes options for screen recording.
lol.Did you use xbox game bar for p.c recording
@@granityseis104 umm what?
@@granityseis104 in Win 11, printScreen button brings up snipping tool, u can record screen, take screenshot, copy texts from screenshots, blur password and other sensitive info from screenshots in one click, and you can even record parts of screen.
If you want to rename multiple files you can put File Explorer into list view. Slow click twice on the file name and you can rename it. Don't hit ENTER, hit TAB and the focus will change to the next file in the list, where you can rename that one. Not automatic renaming, which is a fairly dangerous thing to do anyway.
Very nice video. I've really tried to learn MacOS and Linux over the last few years. Most UI things each OS does, just differently. I probably learned more about Windows after finding great features in MacOS only to find Windows did that already.
Oh wow! This will be very useful for anyone who wants to understand the other if they only use one! Thanks for making this!
Windows is way better at window management. I guess that's why it's called _Windows_
You don't need to use the vast majority of them
@@its0xFULyou do, in fact, need to use your windows to use your computer
They have also patented it, hence why apple struggles to adopt it into their own os
@@oh-noe it's not just about window snapping, it's about window management as a whole
@@aquaponieee more specifically?
On macOS you can press cmd+shift+5 and you get the same thing as snipping tool on windows, you can also record the screen or a portion of it, and you can change where the files are saved by default, (including to the clipboard).
Almost half the video was about taking screenshots, and made the mac look really bad by showing 4 or 5 key combos, when cmd+shift+5 does the same as win+shift+s (and more), but oh well...
I hate such videos when the author doesn’t actually find poweruser features and then blames the system to be bad and not productive.
Videos like this especially suck for people like me: longtime Windows users at the very end of their rope and finally ready to migrate to MacOS and/or Linux. I adored Windows 98, XP, and especially 7. But Windows 8, 10 and 11 have none of what made me love Windows 98/XP/7 outside of bare minimum basic navigation features. While it is daunting to know that the same exact shortcuts I’ve been using daily on Windows for 20+ years are different keyboard commands on Mac/Linux, they have provided me an experience that actually respects me as a user unlike Windows 10/11, which motivates me to have more patience in learning how to use them. Meanwhile, Windows 8, 10, and 11 have thrown away all the customization features I loved about Windows, and Windows 10 and 11 in particular are spyware OSes that have ripped away even the most basic privacy rights that all versions of Windows up until Windows 8 offered.
I still have 6 working PCs, but now my primary gaming PC is the only remaining Windows machine I own due to peak game compatibility. But even at such an early point in the Steam Deck game console’s life, thanks to its popularity skyrocketing the _Proton_ Windows-to-Linux compatibility layer’s development, I could feasibly pivot the gaming PC to Linux today and enjoy over 90% of my 125+ game library. The only roadblock is that I don’t yet know the Linux alternatives to the Radeon Software Center GUI’s features (such as global overrides for game settings like vsync/frame-limiters/antialiasing/anisotropic-filtering)
As for laptops, aside from 2 really old Macs, my 3 Windows laptops are on Linux, and the majority of my most recent “laptop” use has been on an iPad 6 with Bluetooth mouse & keyboard, now an iPad 10 with Magic Keyboard Folio until I eventually get my first ‘new’ MacBook.
Videos like this don’t fool someone as technically savvy as myself, but they’re borderline disingenuous as I feel like it would fool fellow burned-out Windows veterans who never had the curiosity to at least dabble with MacOS/Linux.
this video is just biased...
@@sturmx96Let's figure why he can't find this shortcuts... They are completely messed up and make no sense
@@Vinicius-xv2ih They make sense to me. At least I'd rather use multiple choices for screenshots on macOS than Windows Prtscn button.
4:30 For macOS window snapping you can hold down Option key to snap the window without making them full screen.
For taking screenshots in macOS it's much more intuitive to open Screenshot app (using Spotlight or Cmd-Shift-5) which includes controls for selection vs full screen, clipboard vs save to desktop vs etc, time delays, and other options. It's basically the macOS equivalent of clipping tool, except it can do videos too. The other shortcut keys are only if you want to do it quickly. Touch Bar also have very nice shortcut keys to handle taking screenshots.
In general I want to echo other comments that it seems like you primarily use Windows and therefore maybe didn't fully research the macOS side.
in a recent update, snipping tool can also do videos now too
Cmd+Opt+5 is still way harder to hit on the keyboard compared to Win+Shift+S
@@HMSNeptunbut you can do it
My favorite screenshot functionality of macOS is that a partially obscured window can be captured in its entirety, without capturing the window obscuring it.
@@HMSNeptun In both you have to use three keys, so what’s the difference?
9:21 to end a task in MacOs you could simply right click the app icon in dock while holding down the option key
i think he was kinda biased in this video a little bit
@@nicatmecidli5245 Not really. MacOS just has bad shortcuts
@@ccenturionnmci don’t think “bad” is a fair statement. I use both systems daily and they are just designed with different principles in mind and there’s a learning curve to both.
6:18 just right click the floating thumbnail and click "Save to clipboard". You don't need to use another shortcut for it to save to your clipboard. Right clicking the floating thumbnail also shows a lot more quick options that are really handy.
yes, this
how do you eve right click on mac? i used a mac few months ago and the whoel touch pad was a single button
@@nox_cadit it's the same like on windows laptops.
just press down with 2 fingers instead of 1 and the right-click options will be there. This also can be disabled in the Trackpad settings, it's named "Secondary click" and have various way to activate the right click. The default way set by Apple is to "Click with Two Fingers". Other options are "Click in Bottom right corner" and "Click in Bottom left corner" and "Off" to disable right-click.
So saying macOs doesn't have rights click is not true and cause misunderstandings
@@nox_cadit besides mac's trackpad isn't "a button". it's like a small multi touch screen with haptic motor built in to simulate the clicky feeling
@@mlemingcapoo doesn't change the fact that I couldn't "right click' with it...
In windows, you can click a file to select it, then click again to rename it. Usually my go to way to rename single files.
Certainly faster than hitting an f-key that may, or may not be on fn-lock, or looking through the context menu ^^
On MacOS you can click a file to select it and press the enter key to rename.
That method is the most unpredictable, unintuitive and slow thing that Windows has, pressing F2 is way faster and always works. The fact that you have to click the file and then wait one hole second before clicking it again to rename it is just annoying, sometimes I click faster and it registers as a double click and opens the file instead.
@@DestopLine you can change the time for a double click in the mouse settings.
@@QuentinBoswank-rh4vq I know, but I don't think it's convenient to change that setting just for the renaming feature
I prefer F2 renaming, as the timing is super awkward
I'm a big fan bro. Quality vids, as always. Keep this up and maybe, you'll get to a mil by early 2024!
and yes, i replied to me own comment
This video is a bit lob sided when it comes to presenting all the ways you can do something in Windows/ MacOS. In the "Opening a File manager" Chapter you mention the ability to pen file explorer by clicking "this PC" however you don't mention that on MacOS you can do the same by clicking on "Macintosh HD" or any other Volume you have mounted to open it in Finder. If you don't have these on your Desktop go to your menubar Finder>Settings>General and there you can select which items to be displayed. For the "Copy/Cut & Paste" you can for both windows and MacOS use drag and drop and on macOS drag and drop will move a file when its from Drive A to Drive A and copy when its from Drive A to Drive B. in "Navigating Through Windows" you completely forget that "Stage Manager" exists (I don't like it and have it turned off but still) as well as "Mission Control" and "App Exposé" which can be used with gestures on a trackpad or by using the shortcuts on your keyboard (F(1-12) keys or Fn + F(1-12) depending on your settings). For "Snapping Windows" I really got nothing to say, except that Fullscreen windows can be switched through much more Easily, but MacOS is behind here. The "[...] Screenshots" also misses MacOS' Screenshot utility, which can be mapped to a keyboard shortcut, is available in the Touchbar (if your Mac Has it) and can be quickly opened from spotlight. Quick note on "Copying Paths" in MacOS you can have the Path Bar Display up at all times, however i forgot how that can be done (Might be a Terminal Command or through a tool like Onyx).
I've read a few comments and a lot where surprised that MacOS is "unpolished" and to that i can only say that every window I open is always in the modern MacOS look and i don't have to worry that i might be hit with a window that looks like it comes directly from XP.
But in general both OS are good (my Opinion). I use Windows 11 for Work and MacOS as my Daily Driver and it honestly comes down to Personal Preference (Im talking only about the OS not the Hardware so spare your Comments about PCs having more Performance, even when the new M-Series MacBooks are Great.)
I was looking for this comment because I totally agree. No offense to the creator but it’s very obvious that they rarely use MacOS. This video feels more like “comparing the Windows workflow on Windows vs MacOS.”
Not mentioning the macOS native screenshot tool must have been an oversight, because that’s how you screen record too. Comments are focused on the “inelegance” of the MacOS keyboard shortcuts instead of the simplicity of its screen capture interface compared to Windows. And completely failing to mention Mission Control or switching desktops on MacOS is wild because if one were actually a MacOS user then they would know that that’s how multitasking is usually accomplished on the OS. So many quality of life features were omitted from the MacOS portions- file preview, quick force quit, app expose, sharing files & airdrop… not to mention all of the things that spotlight helps with
Unfortunately I feel like most videos are always going to be like this. Most content creators only use one OS, spends maybe like a few hours trying to use another OS and then try to make a video on it. Even if they try to research, they just aren't going to know the alternative OS inside out like the main one you use.
For explaining the shortcut keys it's better to explain the concepts behind them anyway. In Windows, the Win key is primarily used for OS-related features, so Win-E (Explorer) / Win-D (Desktop) / Win-L (lock computer) / Win- / Win- all have specific meanings for interfacing with the OS shell, whereas Ctrl keys are the primary action modifier (except for Alt-F4 / Alt-Tab keys which is a relic) for the app. A lot of special actions are also mapped to Function keys.
For macOS, Cmd key is the main action key (both in app and for OS), whereas Option key provides alternative options, in both shortcut keys and menus. Function keys are not as used frequently for app functions (since on laptops they are usually for media keys). The menu system is also tightly integrated with shortcut keys with most (not all) shortcut keys mapped to a menu item so you can look it up: when you hit a shortcut key, the menu item will briefly flash (to hint where it is); and you can also search menu items in the Help menu's "Search" bar as big apps have lots of menu items.
Once you understand those basics it's a lot easier to understand the shortcut keys instead of feeling "arbitrary".
That has always been the case with these half baked comparison tests. Hell, just look at how many comments are there telling him about shortcuts that would be obvious to Mac users. I fucking hate Apple as much as the next guy but their Mac lineup has been amazing in recent years and that's a fact.
I liked the one from snazzy labs though because he uses both regularly.
I actually thought Mac would be more polished than Linux. That window snapping is just unacceptable.
Window snapping is patented by Microsoft, apple can’t put it in macOS even if they wanted to
There are apps like swish, that work great and even offer a better window snapping experience than the one found on windows, apple could have implemented something like it instead
So yeah, the fact window snapping akin to windows isn’t on macOS is excusable, since it’s patented, however, apple not trying to come up with a better way to do it, is inexcusable
Window snapping is just windows 11 feature and not a very important one
@@blakeyflakewell, the other most OS'es are open source/free to use. That might be the case
@@blakeyflake They're not open source though.. I don't know for sure though just a thought
@@liamsz Then How is Linux, Chrome OS and android able to do it?
thank you so much this saves too much time, I wish you could make more videos like this and I think focusing on one system every video would be more efficient for you and the viewer as well:)
On macOS you can hold option key and hover over the green dot to tile the window to the left/right screen without entering fullscreen!
😂
Good grief even Windows XP is better then that. On XP you only needed to press Window key and left or right arrow.
Window snapping was introduced on Windows 7, not XP.
@@marcusaureliusf I think you are right. So I'll correct myself and say: Good grief even Windows 7 is better than that. On windows 7 you only needed to press Window key and left or right arrow.
Why does it always seem to require more keys to do something in macOS. I prefer macs but this is ridiculous
On macOS, you can also force quit an app from the Dock by right clicking to open the menu, and old Option to see Force Quit.
In windows, you can do that from the task manager too
@@_tanzil_ Yeah, but that was in the video?
@@_tanzil_we know
Or right click the app icon in dock while holding down the option key
For the windows screenshot on mac. You dont need to press the cmd+shift+4+space as one command. You can press the initall command cmd+shift+4 ... And then space to change to selective
It’s really the most useful of option on either platform for documentation. Gives you nice capture of the window with drop shadow. Should also not that some of the options listed in the video for Windows are not native. Power toys is great but most people don’t run it and it can be buggy at times. Microsoft has been making improvements but the keep removing power user features like I uncombine, cascade/stack. Apple has some gaps there as well but CMD+tab / CMD+` fill the gap in different way
Kind of didn’t realize til now, can’t find an equivalent of MS paint for Mac OS, making silly little changes to photos really comes in handy for quick tutorials
literally just use preview
Four keys shortcuts should be illegal. 🤢
I wish you also did a comparison between KDE Plasma and Windows 11.
KDE Plasma is feature-rich. So much you could do on Plasma.
@@smishyt The question is: what would count as "clean KDE" to test agains Windows 11? I think KDE on Fedora or KDE on KDE Neon ;-)
You did not mention Command+Shift-5 for MacOS which is way more powerful than 3 and 4 with window capture (no spacebar needed) and screen recording functionalities. Also, a more intuitive way to copy the screenshot is to simply right click on the popup and selecting copy.
I use CMD+Shift+5 countless times every day working as a software tester. It’s an ideal way to show off all the steps I take while navigating an app or web page. Seriously, it’s amazing.
For navigating windows on Mac, we kinda ignored the optional ‘new’ way that windows work - stage manager. It changes the behavior of minimized apps
I'd rather use yabai as a tiling window manager
@@roccociccone597okay, but this video is about comparing how the OS’s do this
7:09 easiest way is to click the name and we can rename
on MacOS, you can right click the image preview that appears after screenshotting to get extra options, like saving to the clipboard or deleting the image (which is very handy!)
I just know this. Thanks!
Thanks for the tips! I’m new to macOS and this came me very handy
4:35 If you press option key when you point to maximize button, you have the option to position the window on left or right without split screen layout.
3:21 You can also use windows+number key. The numbers correspond to the order of apps in the taskbar, so win+1 in this example would open file explorer, win+2 would open chrome, etc. Also, if the program is not already open, this will open it.
Since the mid-1990’s I’ve used Windows at work but a Mac at home. Honestly I’ve always preferred the Mac, but I copy paths in Windows all the time at work and never knew you could do it on the Mac until now. Thanks for that!
So, my conclusion is that macos has less steps, but that those same steps are more convoluted and/or hidden (ex. Holding option for cut/paste even if you do it through context menus, which exist to avoid keyboard shortcuts).
7:25 within Microsft Powertoys there is a better batch renaming program.
If you hold option while bringing up the tilting option at 4:34, you can make the windows just snap left or right, this is more similar to how it is on windows. Still recommend using something like Better Touch Tool, super worth for working, and you can make it a trackpad shortcut :).
on Windows, you can double-click slowly to rename file
double-click "slowly". idk why i find this funny
Yes this is my most common way of doing this. One click to select, one click to rename. Just slow enough to not trigger a double click open/execute action.
For selection Screenshots u can just press The PrtSC Button and do it u don't need to press anything else On windows
True!
The amount of stuff I just found out about windows I was missing out for over a decade is crazy.
9:30 in macOS you can also use activity monitor to end tasks, basically like the Windows task manager
but stupider
Probably already been mentioned, but you can force quit an app by right click the app in the taskbar and press option. You'll see a context menu item called "Force Quit". If you don't press the option key, then the option will be quit,
If Microsoft and Apple were to watch this video, they both could improve so much. Honestly Companies and Businesses don't understand the importance of user feedback
You can also force quit an app (ie end its process) by holding OPTION and right clicking on the app's icon in the dock
You can also open force quit from the Apple menu. But clicking on the dock icons is actually much easier for me. This must be a default feature in Windows taskbar, instead of going through the settings to enable that. Why is it even classified as a dev option anyway?
A very nice Video! In school I'm forced to use a Windows Laptop, but at home I use a Mac Studio for Video Cutting. This Video was very helpful to me, because it's kinda hard for me, to remember all shortcuts, to ensure a perfect workflow.
for quiting/ending a task/window on mac, you can also use the activity monitor to quit or force quit, you can also right click the icon in the dock to quit it
There should be control/option delete for the opening of activity monitor on Mac or as a secure attention key.
What I hate about Mac is that you need to press Command + Shift + . every time you want to see hidden main system directories
I think Finder should remember that setting for you?
@@BrotherCheng It does, if we're talking about folders like ~/Library.
Seems like the option key really is the power key to unlock additional "options".
2:25 You can also use the shift key and drag in Windows to move a folder or document
4:30 You can hold ⌥ when hovering the maximize button to move the window without entering fullscreen, and you can set a keyboard shortcut for tiling/moving a window to the left or right of the display.
Mac still relies on buttons and key commands for window management? Ouch. Checkout gesture window snapping on windows. Just drag the window to the left or right of the screen and release. Then click the program you want to fill the other half. Then you can adjust them both at the same time with the middle bar. It’s so intuitive and fast at the same time. Any other way just seems archaic and old.
@@E4S65 Keyboard shortcuts for arranging windows are not set by default in macOS.
Gestures don't allow you to use the pointer for anything else when performing the gesture.
At 8:10 to copy the path you can also use Ctrl+shift+C.
Note, this will copy the path in quotation marks
Edit: doesn't alt+F4 count as a force quit?
Edit 2: Forget what I said about alt+F4
Nah it simply closes the window (like the x button) but doesnt kill the task
alt+F4 is not force quit. It sends a signal to the application that it should quit NOW, but in the end the quitting behavior is still something that the application does. Applications can also choose to ignore alt+F4
holy crap I didn't know you could add "end task" the taskbar in Windows 11! thanks!
I love mac, its just irritating when you have to work on multiple excel files because in mac command tab works only for app switching but in windows by alt tab you can see multiple workbooks and can choose the desired one. To do the same in mac, you have to first select the app for example excel and then do Command + ` in which it will automatically shift you to the next sheet and suppose you want to go to the 10th excel sheet or file, you have to keep pressing the same command 10 times, in windows you get a preview of it and its easy. Ctrl+Tab is the OS X keyboard shortcut for switching between currently running programs.
To switch between open windows of the same program Ctrl+` is the appropriate keystroke.
Though I've installed windows 11 through Parallels for free with some clever way but I'm not able to install office in that. I've tried doing the same thing hell lot of times but still I receive different errors. If anyone of you have installed office on windows 11 running through parallels in M1 Mac, please reply to this comment and guide me to do it.
if you have 2 sheets, fullscreen both make sure their virtual desktops are next to one another and use shortcuts to jump between. I often also have a third desktop where I have things like browsers pdf n stuff for research. Using virtual desktops means you don't lose the layout of your third desktop just because you wanted to see your spreadsheet.
Try ctrl+down which might be better than cmd+` in your use case. It opens an overview UI for all windows of the current app which you can also navigate with the keyboard.
For window tiling, while you can drag a window to a side, you can also use the Win + up/down/left/right keys to move the window to that position. This works for Windows as well as in Linux desktops environments such as Cinnamon, XFCE, and KDE (may work in other DE, but I almost never use anything other than what I listed).
This video is SOOOO HELPFULL!
COMMAND + SHIFT + G
4:37 you can also hold control while hover the maximize button to "move a window to a side of the screen" instead of tiling it
you can also drag & drop your screenshot to any app when it appears as a pop up
4:40 there is this app called Rectangle for macOS, which allows you to drag the programms to the side or corner like it is possible with windows.
A few years ago, I bought an M1 Mac Mini and ever since, thats my main PC.
The one thing I missed the most was the window snapping feature.
Apple does not have anything like that natively.
Instead I bought the app called Magnet, which has more functions than the native MS windows snapping features.
And yes it cost me money ….
How have they not implemented this nativity yet?
You certainly are paying for apps on windows to fix window management. Oof
Ooh I was not aware of the new end task feature from the taskbar
Whenever Windows Snapping is brought up I'm inclined to bring up the "tabification" of macOS's entire user experience and to me seems like a more useful tool overall. Want to compare different trips? Make a new tab. Want to consolidate all your word processing docs to make them easier to manage? Make a new tab. Want to move files between multiple locations without any fancy keyboard shortcuts or needless backtracking? Make a new tab.
You mean tabs as in a web browser? Windows has it in quite a few apps as well.
But you're saying you can compare stuff, so do you mean you can have multiple tabs displayed next to each other in the same window? As in, each tab fills half of the window?
Snapping seems more flexible though, since you can arrange not only tabs in a single window (of the same app, if that is even what you mean) but windows of different apps on the screen.
MacOS' way of handling window snapping is enough of a pain for me to never want to own one myself.
There are many third party tools that replicate Windows Snap
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Agree, i love my MacBook but window management in MacOS is just a pain
A big reason for that is the patent that Microsoft holds on window tiling implementation.
Agreeable. It does work, but it is extremely limited.
4:06 You can also drag the window to the top of the screen (the dark grey bar that apperes) and than you have more options than the quick sellect menu
you can do force task ending in macos differently and it would be a lot more efficient: right click on the app u wanna force quit in the dock, and while holding option just press “Force Quit”
I prefer windows also I can run Linux distro inside WSL2 and when you combine everything with Microsoft PowerToys you become productivity Champ 😅
for taking a screenshot of a window, you can also just hit cmd+shift+4 and then hit space bar, which is quite satisfying imo (you don’t have to hit all 4 at once)
That thumbnail actually looks so sick！
NormalOS vs NormieOS
that thumbnail was dope. video too
6:36 Control+Shift+Command+4+Spacebar is a joke of a shortcut. That's more a longcut
You could just use shift+cmd+5 which offers a more gui-centric approach similar to windows+shift+s
@@amitkulkarni3922 ok, that makes more sense
That's because the video does not try to explain how the shortcuts work (or maybe the author isn't aware). First, it's better to just use Cmd-shift-5 as the other comment said instead of trying to memorize the specific shortcuts. But other than that the shortcuts aren't that difficult to understand if you understand the rationale:
Shift-Command is the basic "screenshot shortcut".
3 versus 4 is "full screen" vs "custom selection".
Control is "clipboard" instead of "save to desktop".
Spacebar is an additional key you press *after* Ctrl+Shift+Cmd+4 to modify the selection from crossbar to window. I guess in Windows it *is* easier with Alt-Printscreen so it's true that if you want to take a screenshot of the current window in Windows it's indeed faster, but the macOS shortcuts do follow a consistent logic.
@@BrotherCheng that's true. It's just messy. A shortcut shouldn't be longer than 3 keys in my opinion, even if it then has to become an arbitrary set of keys. I personally look up shortcuts when I need them, and remember them as muscle memory. I know the shortcuts I need, and the ones I do, aren't longer than 3 keys
@@BrotherCheng I definitely see the appeal of logical shortcuts like that, bit that's just not how I use shortcuts
when you took a screenshot on mac with any shortcut you can then right click on the photo which pops ups in the down left corner and choose between several options for what you want to do with it
7:03 also you can double click on its name but with short pause
I cant wait to press Control+Shift+Command+4+Spacebar to take a screenshot
MacOS - Control+Shift+Command+4+Spacebar
Windows - alt+prntscrn
nice.
I used win 11 on my work laptop and the feature to rezize and put applications in some pre defined grid alternatives is pretty handy. But I like windows 10 more because of obvious reasons
What are the obvious reasons?
This will be a great video for people who need to shift from Windows to macOS or vice versa.
Interesting comparison. Regarding the window snapping portion, it would be good to explore the support for multiple desktops. I organize my app windows into separate desktops on separate screens based on the type of task I would like to accomplish (messaging, email, music, browser, terminals, code editors, etc...).
There are a couple of useful macos third party apps to solve some problems.
CommandX: Cut and paste items using command + x
Alttab: get the navigation style of the alt tab on windows
Retrangle: Easily move windows to one side to split it in half or third.
Still, this kind of thing should have come together with the OS
@@ben53933some of them should’ve, MacOS has a solution to Cut and Paste that is just as easy to do but is a little less intuitive
I don't if if mac supports it but on windows you can also drag and drop to the destination folder
My preference has always been Windows, but I find myself using macOS more and more, mostly because I am sick of seeing fucking ads in my start menu.
I honestly have never seen an ad in Windows, but I imagine it's because I've been using TweakUI for years. I highly recommend it - it allows you to easily enable/disable/change TONS of settings with a simple click of a button.
What ads?
sounds like some malware/adware to me.. i've never seen ads in windows
I just Flow Launcher and almost never have to use start menu search anymore
@@amitkulkarni3922the fend calc and fab calc plugins for flow launcher are so nice😊.
I've seen a few of these types of videos and I'm wondering, on Windows does anyone else rename files by clicking on the file then clicking on the filename text? I've seen this mentioned very few times by people.
I click on the rename button in explorer
I do it that way. But I must say it feels a bit clunky
Just press F2 to rename
It was hard to sit still during this video, as I've used some Mac OS or another since 1984. I didn't really try Windows until Windows 95. But of course, I learned a couple of things from this video!
The overall idea that made me uncomfortable, however, is how much I used drag and drop in the Mac environment.
Some drag and drop features were more robust back in the "Classic Mac" days. I haven't tried dragging and dropping text selections in a long time. Not dragging with the mouse to select text. You used to be able to click on already-selected text and start dragging, and that would pick up a copy of the text and move it around until you dropped it on something. You could drag files to printer icons to send them to a printer, or save someone's email address as an icon on the desktop and drag stuff to it to send mail. You can still put lots of these together with scripts, but it used to be baked into the environment.
After decades, I'm still far more effective in the Mac environment. Ironically, I do most of my work in the Terminal command shell, or a text editor. I still have a hard time with Windows. Today, the task is "migrate to a new SSD". Mac comes with a number of ways to do this, from a graphical Migration Wizard to brute force file copy in a terminal. Windows has far more powerful tools to handle this in their various Device Management services for corporate IT Departments. But no longer anything simple to help a stand-alone home user.
That window screenshot in MacOS is insane 😂 And the fact that it doesn't save to the clipboard by default is crazy...
You only need to click the little pop-up preview on the right bottom window, cmd+C.
The preview is actually more convenient than windows, because you can just drag and drop that preview like it is right by your hands. On the other hands, the windows would just save the screenshot to a deep path or won't save it at all. I personally like MacOS, it's more tidy.
@@wadehill2097 no it isn't. You already have your picture on clipboard so you don't have the need to drag it anywhere? You can click on it if you want to edit it. Screenshots are just worse on macos, windows is easier by far. Just the fact that the macOS screen doesn't even freeze when taking a screenshot is annoying already.
Dragging and dropping is better. Clipboard doesn’t always work, website uploading for example. Also you can save to clipboard, it’s just one more key to press.
@@BeeboHamido website uploading works with ctrl v on windowd as well as dragging and dropping. The problem with macOS is that the screenshot dissapears within a couple seconds so you gotta rush to the application you want to share it on.
@@BeeboHamido The fact that this is true is even crazier. I don't know about you but as a productivity oriented person, having to do that would take a huge hit to my workflow. Edit: doesn't always work?? That sounds horrible 😭
9:33 to force close an app on mac you can also right click the dock icon, hold option and the quit option will transform into force quit
And people say all apple products are better because they are intuitive ☠️
far from intuitive!... i am a life time windows user and recently purchased an M2 Macbook and there is nothing intuitive about it at all... the settings app is horrendously organized if you want to change settings, most of the good ones are buried inside the 'accessibility' menu for some reason
@@SintaxBSD Exactly, that is what I mean
5:44 you can edit the settings to automatically screenshot to clipboard by pressing cmd+shift+5
3:38 you can also press the apple keyboard's F3 shortcut, which opens Mission control, showing all your windows. you don't even have to click the mouse. just move over to the windows and press the key again.
Going to file path, can also be done from the search too or Win + Pasteing path + Enter.
This seems to be a Windows user finding their way to similar functionality on a Mac. The emphasis is on keyboard shortcuts but Mac also uses a lot of gestures such as swipe up with 3 fingers to switch desktops (which were not mentioned btw). Actually my favourite features on the Mac include hiding all but the current window with one click, and rearranging windows below the current focus window without bringing them to the foreground. Oh, Finder tabs, too.
To be fair he missed a lot for both OSes
Windows also has multi-touch gestures (4 finger lateral swipes to switch desktops, for instance) and file explorer tabs.
In macOS when the screenshot appears in the bottom right of the screen you can also click and drag it into whatever you're working on or messages.
On the subject of changing tasks on Windows, i usually have my most used apps pinned on the taskbar, and I can cycle through them very quickly using win+number (order of pinned app) as well as both launching and minimizing them, I don't know if mac has this feature or not but during my time with mac, I haven't done that. Also, I feel like there is a lot of other Windows shortcuts you didn't mention, such as ctrl/alt/shift + drag file for creating a copy, move file and create file/folder shortcut
Thanks for the tip about F2 to rename files. I use both systems, and renaming files on Win has been a torture
Great video!
Would be amazing to have a similar video for iOS vs Android (on Google Pixel).
I think iOS often requires more touches/interactions to share across apps, copy/paste, forward/delete multiple messages on whatsapp and so many other thiings
> copy/paste
iOS actually lets you pinch to copy, a feature that doesn't exist on the Pixel yet.
pasting with Gboard is way better tho
iOS is far more limiting, no interface multitasking, no drag and drop, horrific notification system, terrible interoperability with other brands. Other crazy things like leaving apps to go into the settings app to make a change, ie say for camera. Overall just less coherent, which is odd given the level of. Of control and restrictions. Maybe in 5 year's they'll get there with some features and abilities 🤷♂️ optimistic perhaps
In Mac OS you can also control click on an app and hold option to force quit an application
They should add that batch file naming or something similar from Mac OS to windows that is so much better why tf haven’t they done that
You forgot to add very simple task, maximize window for both win and mac
Great video :)