until the m1 MacBook Air, i never owned a Mac. now i own an m3 Max 16-inch macbook pro. because of this i switched to iphone and every other apple device. are there problems? yes. 100% i still have a pc for gaming
@@Kwint. I used to run multiple businesses and do photography but now I’m a security guard in an insane asylum while I go to uni for my comp sci degree I still own the businesses but they are a side hustle, at least for now Oh and as an Australian I only work 40 hours a week for it to be considered full time and have no reason to work more, I heard Americans sometimes work 50-90 hours a week, no way
Same story here. Got an M2 mac from work after being on windows my whole life. Still sceptical about some choices apple made but it is the best piece of hardware I ever used
Fun fact: The finder icon is not a smiley face. The right part is a human face and the left part is a computer screen. It doesn't look like that now but it was significant in the previous versions of the logo.
I felt what you felt now in 2021 when I got my M1 Air, literally the best laptop at that time. Sooo many use cases where it just did the job brilliantly. Is still in daily use today and yes, still quick, does not overheat, NO fan and still around 16-17 hrs battery life in light tasks or consuming media.
i'm sorry how does it not overheat? are you using it for 2d apps? maybe do some sort of non graphical work on it? how do you see it at the "best" laptop at that time when a yoga7 was over it on every spec including having proper not noisy cooling
By not using unnecessary computing power. Apples chips are efficient. And they are tightly controlled in software. the perks of being a company controlling everything.
@@MultiNakirfor a start , apple silicon laptops don’t drop down too one third the performance as soon as you unplug them , battery life on the MacBooks is great , speakers are great , they have nice screens , very little to complain about with the Mac , if I get a phone call at home while my phone is another room it comes through on the Mac and I can just take the call on the Mac seamlessly. And this is coming from a pc and android user since for over a decade. They are not perfect and nothing is , but they do have a lot of good points.
I LOVE the green button! Making an app fullscreen using the green button puts it into a new virtual desktop, and I can switch between virtual desktops with a three finger swipe to the left or right. I've been using MacBooks for 7 years, and the three finger swipe gesture feels as natural as walking, I don't have to think about it.
I see this issue around me all the time when people try MacOS. Windows windows style management (hehe) is so deep rooted in their head, everyone just refuses to try learning this.. it's not better or worse, but once you learn it, it is as efficent
@@sk8llYeah, but what do you do when you're not on a MacBook? The Mac Minis, Pro, Studio, and iMac still exist. The desktop experience really needs some improvement.
@@Spirrwell That segment I completely forgot, not going to lie... and it still feels like Apple would like users to use Trackpads even with those machines. I can probably imagine myself doing that, but I can see how that's a biiig stretch
I swapped to M1 a year before you. My work Windows laptop constantly reminds me of what I don't miss about Windows machines so I don't see myself missing it anytime soon.
It's the complete opposite nowadays but the memes will last forever, as long as you don't fall for the memes and install something like Arch or Gentoo, as long as you don't fall in the ricing rabbit hole and stick to the default experience of your distro, it will never get in your way and it'll "just work".
I do like Linux as an OS, but i cant run all my industry standard adobe and Affinity apps and the linux vector equivalent Inskape is shockingly 90's clunky in the UX. I'm glad it has Blender though... Just not enough support for an artist IMO.
@@JamesWilliam70 honestly yeah that’s completely understandable! Also you can’t beat the optimisation apple has done for media and content creation. Though from what I’ve seen, adobe seems to be moving more towards the cloud so soon you might be able to start doing some things in the web browser. Another option is to migrate alternatives like gimp/darkroom which might be similar? (Don’t hold me to that, I have very little experience with that kind of thing)
To use multitasking at the Windows level, you can install "rectangle", which is very convenient and there are hotkeys for moving windows and resizing them.
I am also a heavy Windows user and tried Mac a few months ago and I am amazed by the performance and silence of that device. I have right now a Mac Mini M2 with 8gb of unified memory and I am pushing this thing way to much and it is still usable, of course it has a little bit of a lag when pushed to far but it does not freeze. The only thing that I do not know I will ever get used to is the windows switching in Mac but the rest is ok for me. You are right, each OS is meant for something and one is better in some way and another is better in another way :)
this is incredible. You hit so many weird problem/quirks that annoy the hell out of me with mac os, like the scroll being backwards with mice. But you also hit on why I like macs at the same time. We must have the same thought process or something
@@djkid14567 Not a problem, just a preference. It's defaulted to work best with trackpad and the Magic Mouse, which makes sense. If you decide to use a 3rd party mouse, you just have to change the that setting.
used windows for like the first 10 years of my life and then i got a 2012 imac and ever since i have never looked back to windows other then tinkering with an inspiron 3650
idk why yall whine about the hinges of Windows laptops, i had a Lenovo Thinkpad 440s for about 5 years and not even a single problem and btw that laptop was made in 2013 sooooooooo it had a lot of hinge usage after the years and NOTHING on it broke, i only switched the 128GB SSD for a 1TB one. Now i have bought myself a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 Gaming and man is it good, only thing is that now i can play demanding games id like to have a bigger ssd (512gn one rn).
As a Linux user, I bought an old MacBook Pro just to try macOS, but I got sick of all those little inconveniences you pointed out, and more, so I decided to go back to Linux and buy a ThinkPad. I don't regret, at least now I know that macOS is just not for me. From my experience, Linux gets out of my way, but gives me the whole control, while on macOS, to make it fit me, I'd have to spend a lot of money on third-party apps, many of which are subscription-based.
@@eckee I did, and it wasn't a good experience because of an unreliable WiFi driver. Also, it was, well, an old MacBook, which means it was heavy, slow, and lasted only about an hour on battery.
Many Linux applications work on Mac, there are many free and open source applications to customize Mac OS. I use Windows and Linux on a Mac M1 laptop with awesome battery life. I still have a windows machine for when windows x86 is absolutely necessary and an old 09 iMac with Linux Debian for VMs, Linux disks and SD cards file system.
@@RolandoMarreroPR I'm glad it works for you, but I don't want to spend several days trying to find apps to customize macOS just the way I want it. Also I just prefer the layout and workflow of Gnome desktop, which I use on Linux. Aaand I don't really want to spend more then a thousand euros on a laptop, a 2019 ThinkPad for ~450€ works great for me, and I don't have any issues with drivers. Aaalso it has 2 USB type A ports, which modern MacBooks lack. And the keyboard is the best I've ever experienced, with long key travel and nice tactile bump.
The reason that installing and uninstalling the apps is like that because they are small container-like apps which keep all the files in the same place unlike in windows app where an app can install multiple files/configurations on multiple locations (appdata, registry etc etc.)
Unfortunately while that should be the case in reality mac apps also often spew random files into locations like ApplicafionSupport or other hidden locations.
Not just application support or preferences, try private/var/ and many, many other places macs hide files. Switched to Mac in 2005, I still miss my windows xp tower to this day 😭
I also switched. At first it was unusual, especially with window management, as the author of the video noted. I didn’t want to install unnecessary tweaks and programs, so I got used to it and accepted what the OS offers out of the box. To remove apps I use AppCleaner, because if you just drag and drop them into the trash, there will be a bunch of leftovers in the system folders.
For window management I mostly have each program full screened and use gestures to swap between desktops. You can swipe up with 3 fingers to rearrange them in any way you want by dragging them around. It works but it’s still frustrating
I used Windows from 1993 to 2022. I switched to Mac because of the exceelent performance of the M1 with music applications. I actually just bought the Macbook pro to be used as a portable device, expecting to buy a higher specs Mac for desktop use. However, the Macbook worked so well that I regretted I didn’t get one with more RAM and harddisk. So now I consider getting an M3 Macbook with higher specs as my one and only for both studio and potability.
@@blackmamba6938 I plan on maxing out 128GB since I work with 3D files plus been working with more 4K content. I may work with 8K in the future, so it helps to future proof my laptop, along with extra storage since video and project files gets pretty big.
One thing, with some years being exceptions, Mac laptops are built really well and software updates support up to 7-8 year old machines. My current personal laptop is 6 years old, hinges are still stiff, screen is bright and colors are true, trackpad clicks like new, runs without obvious lag, on latest software, is running 10 hours a day next to my workstation. Battery has gotten rough, but can still get 2 hours out of it. Overall the ROI is very good.
I recently replaced my 13 year old MacBook Pro, mostly because it's slow as shit these days and the battery decided to expand its horizons (and the case lol). It's otherwise still in pristine condition after very heavy use almost daily for much of its life. It was replaced with an M3 MacBook Pro. I also have a 27" iMac which I wish they'd make a true 1 to 1 replacement for, and a custom gaming PC. I think I'll just buy a mini and a nice 4K display (or spend silly money on the Studio Display lol) and replace the iMac with those as my new primary Mac desktop set up. I've never, ever owned any of my PC's nearly half as long as I have any of my Macs. They're just useful for longer in my experience. That's probably biased by my use of PC's as purely a gaming platform though so the performance deficiencies become more obvious more quickly.
8:44 Apple doesn't want MacOS to be windows like and Microsoft doesn't want windows to remind people of MacOS. These little differences will always exist to pull or push users either toward or way from an OS. MacOS is great and Apple makes a solid piece of hardware to go along with it, but Windows runs on a lot of hardware and can be actually affordable for people.
It's funny that these are pretty much my exact sentiments after using a Mac for my work and Windows for home for about three years now. I've always used a Windows desktop and I've had two Windows laptops (both of the gaming variety) and I finally got tired of lugging the heavy thing around, the weird battery mode performance and the noise, just like you said, and I switched to a Macbook Pro as my primary machine. Honestly, if you favor laptop formfactors, this is primarily a workstation and you don't have any software that is Windows proprietary, you're probably better off with a Mac. I love the experience, and I can only hope that one day Windows machines could become greater so we get even better design.
@@Suc-ChiiThere are developments in the space of running Windows games on Mac, such as Crossover and Whisky that utilise the Game Porting Toolkit codebase and combine it with Wine (a Windows compatibility layer and emulator) to run an ever-expanding number of games locally on Mac, as well as virtualisation from the likes of Parallels and VMware that have just recently implemented DirectX 11 hardware acceleration support, so that you can run most PC games (and also DirectX 12 non-Ultimate, since the base version is just DX11), and are working on DX12 Ultimate support. The M3 and up have new mesh-shading and ray-tracing accelerators in each core, so it can, in theory, finally play games like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing enabled. And there are ports from established developers such as Capcom, Kojima and Ubisoft, as well as the number of mobile games and ports of popular PC games that you can run on ARM Macs. If you don’t game on a PC on a regular basis, I’d advise you to get one of these MacBooks.
Oh and you can't find pirated stuff for MacOS At least (until the m series) you could install windows through boot camp and now you can kind of get it to run ok using parallels desktop or whatever it was called (a VM, less than ideal)
I don't believe a single word of that. I tried Linux and if you want to get anything done Windows. If you are old or mentally challenged Mac. If you want a laptop Mac at least for now.
For people watching, to uninstall a "full" program on mac is not as easy as this video shows / files will be left behind. Using an app like appcleaner will glob search for files related to the software publisher key string in your mac and delete those files too (on your confirmation). Lots of apps leave behind traces of themselves on mac.
Although you have "uninstall" option in Windows, it leaves lots of trash files, registry keys etc in your system. Using MacOS third party uninstaller actually removes the app. I didn't find good working alternatives on Windows
@@RzariRzari there are PLENTY of options for Windows, both paid and free. That said, the files Windows leaves behind are so that if you ever re-install the app, you can "most of the time" pick up where you left off. The files left behind are generally small in size and only serve to backup your settings.
8:02 If you right-click on the app icon in the doc, you'll see a list of your open documents for that app and then you can select the one you want, or open a new document. An alternative is from the top menu bar under "Window" for that app, there is an option where you can merge all the documents into one window with multiple tabs. You can also right click a tab on a multi-tabbed window and select an option to move that tab to a new window. In general, there are multiple ways of doing many things in the OS to achieve different things in different ways that many people are unaware of. The more you use it the more you'll discover them, and be pleasantly surprised. I see so many comments that say how bad the mac is a at doing different things because they think there is only one way of doing it on a mac. I agree, some things are done better on Windows, but there are also things that's done better on a mac. My personal and subjective preference is for macOS, but I agree with you, the best OS is what's best for the person using it for the tasks they have on hand at the time.
That is only if the developer of the app has implemented it, otherwise you will always get all the windows. To your second part - Obviously, people will discover more things as they use a product, that's how it is for everything, but the things Melon points out are accurately things that should be intuitive and natural and need no "Discovery". That's just pure bad design by Apple.
I think there is a heavy reliance of "Expose" or "Mission Control" in macOS. The use of compartmentalising workspaces with virtual desktops and using "Expose" to quickly switch between applications/windows. F3/Double tap mouse/four finger swipe up/Mission Control in dock is your friend. Old habits die hard for a lot of people and quickly run to the dock and use it like a windows taskbar. If you want a better visual way to switch around apps then "Expose"/"Mission Control" is the quickest way to do so.
@@Zeales Intuitiveness is subjective. Obviously some coming from Windows to macOS will find things unintuitive since they are used to a different way of accomplishing things. But that same argument can be applied to those coming from macOS to Windows, that Windows is unintuitive since they are used to a different way of doing things, and shouldn't need "Discovery" and is therefore just pure bad design by MS.
Apple phones usually have better cameras than other phones, which is nothing, because Apple phones cost so much more, you are technically buying a phone plus a stand-alone dedicated camera. Otherwise, Apple products are for superficial people with limited computer literacy who don't mind being trapped in Apple's IOS ecosystem where all the Apple devices work so seamlessly together without much tinkering. One can do video editing on any machine, Windows or IOS, but the trade off in lack of software isn't worth it to me. Back in the day there were lots of programs trying to make their way to Apple that would crash every few minutes. Limewire, MSN Messenger, different browsers, just to name a few things. Not to mention gaming... let's not even go there.
Wdym Apple phones cost so much more ? This is a thing of a past, every flagship phone costs equal or more money than apple phones. Lets do a standard comparison of 2 most popular phone Brands of Each side, Apple Iphone 15 pro Max = 1199$, S24 Ultra = 1299$. Like I said Android phones are equal in price or more expensive than Iphones, this "Oh iPhones are expensive" is a relic of the past, because its been a decade if not more that both Apple and Android devices are equal in price, and tbh nowdays androids tend to be even more expensive. Second point u made about people being iliterate if they use their computers/laptops is just delusional, and points out that you have no relevant job in IT industry because if you did you would know exactly why Macbooks are so valuable for work. 1) Price, Yes macbooks are more affordable if you want a premium device with such specs, because equivalent premium device would be something like Dell XPS which usually costs more, or something like ROG Zephyrus Lineup which is WAY more expensive. No you cannot get 700$ windows laptop and call it a day, cuz you will get a shitty display and plastic build quality. 2) Efficiency, Macbook is actually a laptop that you can carry around which has ~15h+ of battery compared to any windows laptop which averages to around 4h besides new ARM ones and the reason why u are witnessing appearance of ARM CPUs in windows devices is because none of current windows laptop CPUs compare in efficiency to macbook, (New Ryzen CPU in AMD Zephyrus G16 2024 is promising though but it is 2k+) 3) Ease of use, Macbooks are very easy to get into and with few softwares feel no different than windows and actually feels way better to use, I used windows only since I was like 8 years old and thought that macbook is just trash and waste of money (wasn't aware of prices), but then this year I receieve a macbook from a company and oh boy is it a game changer, instantly picked it up and suddenly realized why windows is actually trash for work/content consumption. Conclusion is: If you don't do heavy 3D modeling or Heavy gaming (macbook can handle lightweight games) then Macbook is a no brainer choice cuz for such price you won't get a better experience out of any windows laptop, because such laptops are 1.6k or 2k euros + for a Razer Blade 15 or Zephyrus G16 2024 or M16 2023, or dell XPS which is equally priced to Macbooks but performs worse. Don't be a hater and get that device, it will transform your work and show you what a true laptop experience is.
@@Leogos281 You started wrong and ruined an entire wall of text. Sneakily trying to base the conversation on flagships, when every damn thing Apple makes is more expensive than everyone else's, straight up, no cap. I feel like Apple made your reply, it can't be worth the read and i'm not buying.
I went through the exact same process with the M1 macbook pro 16" for software development. Completely changed my view and I 100% prefer mac for everything besides gaming.
For software development? OS wise, you actually get the short stick everywhere, outside of development for Mac. No hyper-v, no wsl2/native linux, terrible window management, terrible looking fonts on
@@dubble ??? "No hyper-v, no WSL2/native Linux" WSL2 isn't native Linux, it's just Linux on a hypervisor "terrible window management" subjective "terrible looking fonts on
@@meta___ " terrible window management" subjective " Not subjective. Window management on MacOS is objectively horrible. You don't know how to work on a computer properly if you don't agree.
Can I like this video a million and one times. Absolutely love the animations and the creative spin in this video. I agree with the quirks on macOS, I just recently made a switch from windows myself. Great job with the video mate. you just got a new subscriber
This video was very well made. One thing I would like to state is, for window management, a really good app that is free is Rectangle. You won't find it on the app store but instead their website. One other thing, that little green button is the full screen button. Allows you to have multiple apps on different "screens/desktops" which you can swipe between using 3 or 4 fingers in a "claw" shape. This will be a horrible experience if you use a mouse.
@@dipanggilmas3189 That's not really intuitive when trying to multitask. It would reduce productivity drastically. At that point, you may as well use a trackpad. When I refer to mouse, I am not referring to the Apple mouse as that thing is just, no.
@@CalebMakes I think it depends on where you have your laptop. For me I often have my hand on the trackpad while using the mouse just for the gestures. I haven’t felt any slowdowns and I am an avid shortcut user.
@@oh-noe Each to their own I guess. If it works for you and you find it best, then that's how it is. I personally find macOS highly orientated around a trackpad. Without a trackpad, the OS just loses that gesture focused design and is hard to navigate. I've attempted mouse and trackpad but going between both of them to navigate I found to be slow and annoying. I'm interested in how you've done the switch between the two for navigation, sounds interested.
@@CalebMakes I’m not going between them, I’m using both at the same time. Mouse for clicking and moving trackpad for gestures. If I’m not navigating the os and I’m focusing on something, my other hand rests on the keyboard for easy shortcuts
@@UrbanPlanner-t6k used xps 13 for 5 years, moved to m1 macbook pro. never in 3 years i heard the fan even one time and its so cold to touch. xps always stay hot even in basic tasks sometimes and the fan turns on a lot. Best decision I made moving to macbook. i might get arm based windows 12 touch device but no to any kind of windows laptop.
@hajjdawood lol then watch some videos it beats MacBook pros processing power.... and os?? No thanks I prefer the flexibility of windows. It's not a big deal to have a smooth os when u can do nothing on it
@@UrbanPlanner-t6k macOS in most areas of the OS has far greater flexibility then Windows. Hell the whole OS is run on a UNIX core. Also "do nothing on it" lol it's the favorite OS of engineers all over the world. I am a software engineer and do all of my work on macOS.
Wow, you got 3 hours out of your Windows laptop? I only got 45 minutes with my Alienware M2 R15! I think I played Call of Duty once and drained it in about 15 minutes with that RTX 2080. In any case, you should now try getting an Apple iPhone. I mean... just try it along with your Mac, then you'll get the full experience! That is a big reason I switched from PC to Mac about a year ago. I had to use a MacBook while my PC was being repaired. It took Dell about 4 months. When I got it back, I didn't want to leave the Mac, so I bought one.
If you're not a fan of the Apple window management I can strongly suggest Stage Manager, its a little weird to get used to at first but when you're constantly in and out of applications its a massive game changer to how you work. Whilst I did need to configure my dock a little bit because the default settings are pretty bad in my opinion, with these config changes stage manager compliments it incredibly.
I use Magnet. It's miles better than stage manager. Why you wouldn't use the full screen real estate for the current task is beyond me. I also use command + tab to switch apps. Fast workflow with non of the fluff
this video was so good holy shit its such a breath of fresh air compared to the average tech reviewer bombing you with a fancy ass B Roll every 30 seconds
just like you I was always windows, but when I got my first macbook I could never go back a windows laptop. I still use windows for gaming every now and then but I could never look at it's screen without crying
Being a CS student and bonafide computer nerd, the software troubleshooting of Windows/Linux has (more of less) always been something more interesting than it was frustrating, and the amount of little added features people add for free use on github repos (lively, powertoys, themes and mods) are very nice things. It's also nice to know that there's 100 different segments marketed to with Windows laptops from gaming to light travel partners(steam deck/Acer Swift) that can rival/beat apple silicon in different ways. This kinda gets me off getting a mac (less the software and more the money and apple-ness, could honestly do a multi boot with win, Mac and Linux in one) due to the obvious limitations of getting no more than apple lets you. Sorry for the rambling, i get that this is an uncommon opinion from someone spending more time and effort on tech than your average person, but i feel it's good to at least have it out there.
honestly, the more I try to code with windows the more I get annoyed by it. My problem with Mac is that the system is so locked down. I currently use WSL2 for work because I cant get a Linux PC from my company. I'll switch to kubuntu at home most for of my stuff and just dual boot to Windows for gaming.
7:06 this is because it IS similar. On MacOS applications (.app) _are_ folders! You can actually right click and navigate inside of them. Most Mac apps include all of their dependencies and resources and files, so deleting literally is as simple as deleting the app (eg folder). Yes there are some apps that have extra things they install, but most are self contained inside of the app folder thing.
Adobe stuff is the more obnoxious example of using an installer. Their files end up polluting your entire goddamn file system. You basically have to do a complete OS reinstall to make sure you get rid of that crap if you want to uninstall it all. They even have a separate uninstall cleaner utility on their website for once you've uninstalled it with the built in tool, which is kind of nuts when you think about it.
im soo glad you brought up the mouse scrolling problem lol I wish they had separated the mouse and trackpad settings so you can adjust hem individually. the reason however why the scrolling is backwards is because apple wants you to use the Magic Mouse which doesn't have a scroll wheel. other thing worth mentioning is if you accidentally fullscreen the app or webpage easiest way to go back out of fullscreen mode is to hit the escape key. all the reasons why you switched are the same as mine but one of the reasons why I wouldn't switch back is because of workstations on MacBooks. the fact that you can have 16 workstations open at once makes it usable without a monitor and truly makes the MacBook usable while away from a large screen.
I just got used to natural scrolling on my mouse but it trips me up every time I use a mouse anywhere else It's insane they never added a separation of the two
Mac is the way! Also, the green button is actually very useful for working in fullscreen apps. Finder is a bad example. It's more intended to be used with apps that require focus, such as Final Cut Pro and Safari.
Green button is perfect on the laptop mode, it really takes advantage off the excellent trackpad gestures but absolutely falls apart for me when using a mouse + keyboard and with an external monitor
@@Yeezus2K I know this is an older comment but you can do the same thing with that setup using something like "Mac Mouse Fix" to give your mouse gestures like a trackpad. Literally works with any mouse. Or Logi Options+ if it's a Logitech mouse.
My first MacBook is almost 3 years old now, and it still runs as fast and smooth as the first day I started using it. If it was a Windows computer I would have had to format it once or twice already to have that "new machine performance" again. macOS has it flaws of course but the longterm overall is experience has been way better for me since switching from Windows Mac.
@@ThePacmandevil Wrong. I've had multiple computers at a time for a while now, I've gone through multiple versions of Windows, MacOS and Linux distros alike, and even Windows computers that I use occasionally for checking email and accessing certain stuff end up slowing down just from the regular use and Windows updates even though they're literally just vanilla windows with ms office 365 installed.
@@yerielzamora You're probably fucking it up, then. I've been running the same windows box for a decade to run my friendgroup's MC server and the performance is identical to the day I got it
@@ThePacmandevil Nah you'vr just convinced yourself about it. I'm a software engineer and I know what I'm doing with the multiple computers I own and have owned. Windows is garbage that slows itself from its own updates.
yeah, i use both windows 11 and macos sonoma and what i hate the most from macos are you can’t maximize a window with just a single click, the green dots are useless, i can’t use alt+tab and see the preview of it and instead i need to install a third party app literally named alt+tab, and it doesn’t have clipboard like windows 11 with win+v shortcut. anyway what the most i love is a well integrated apple ecosystem like sidecar with ipad, how seamless to switch using airpods, and of course the airdrop that i can just send images from iphone to my document in macbook with 2 clicks
The things about apps not closing depends on the developers of the app, discord does this on windows too, you close the window, not the app. For me that isn’t a problem because I love shortcuts, even if the red cross closed the app properly I would still use them. Scrolling can be weird, but when you do it on your phone it feels natural, I became used to it in no time. I also didn’t like the thing where you can’t slide a window to the side and make it occupy half the screen, but I just have 3 Desktops, and it is so much better, the only thing that is worse is when you need to move a file from an app to another, but I can live with that. When I go back to windows I feel so constricted
Programs with that behavior on Windows generally have a checkbox for Minimize to Tray. It's far from the default behavior for most applications thought.
Mac OS has always made the distinction between closing and quitting. Even Office worked this way for the longest time even on Windows (because it began on the Mac). Adobe products are probably the most obvious ones that still work this way between both platforms. You can close all documents in Photoshop or InDesign or whatever but the app is still running until you quit.
I've been getting a MacBook from my company for about 2 months. Switching from Windows to macOS was a little less intuitive than expected. Too intuitive in some places, like uninstalling. As a software developer, I had to look up where certain keys like [ ] or { } were. Or I didn't really know what HomeBrew or pip were. And the scrolling thing got me too. But overall, it was just small things for what I got. It is a really nice experience after 10+ years of Windows.
File, Folder, Window, Program management and Gaming are all awful on MacOS everything else is fantastic. Use Windows, Mac and Linux everyday and have for years. You're right, for Mac, since 2020 things improved, dramatically.
Another thing to point out is that since the m1 macs the UEFI bios is inside the soldered SSD chips, so if anything happens to the SSD you are left with an unbootable device - whereas you could've booted from usb/SATA before. It is from what I've heard so far impossible (probably is possible but a lot of work) to recover the data from it and there's another huge hardware design flaw which permits high voltage from a shorted SSD to the CPU, bricking the entire system. These devices are anything but green, you cannot repair anything on them. So if you edit and render a lot, consider your SSD wear and it's average lifetime (there are figures on the internet, the lower the capacity, the lower amount of years of wear it can resist so you must be extra careful with 500GB and below SSDs). Backup your data, don't believe what Apple PR says, they've never addressed blatant issues and always tried to skip responsibility for their KNOWN design flaws.
Honestly that applies to most other brands they all have weaknesses. I have owned a lot of different laptops. They all have their own issues. Looking at you dell and Lenovo
Ahh, a fellow rossman fan In short, these issues are more bothersome on paper, and only if you care about these specifics. Macbooks these days are really solid. I’ve used windows since win95 and macs are just better computers. Win is okay when u gotta do certain workflows.
I purchased my Mac in 2021 and I am so glad I did. I grew up with Windows computers and it was all I knew but I've been an iPhone fan user since 2013 so it was quite natural for me to lean to get a Mac.
Linux and open source software in general actually improved a lot in recent years, so I think people will eventually switch to it. PS: For the love of God distributions don't matter, they are just OS assembly. Chose DE first!
I’ve been on Mac for about 4 years. The Unix environment is the biggest plus as I can manage programs with homebrew and use vim for quick file edits. There’s tons of other workflows that are possible in the terminal too but that’s what I use
I've been thinking about making the switch for years now. I settled on a Windows laptop because I was gaming a lot at the time (lockdown), but recently I stopped gaming as much, and for everything else it is just SO much more of a chore, and part of me wishes I'd just bitten the bullet
just got a macbook air myself after using windows since i was six. macos is a perfect mix of windows and ios for me. It has the ios level of polish and ease of use and the work potential of windows. really considering returning it and getting a pro version
I switched to Mac in 2006. After this many years the one thing that STILL drives me nuts is the finder. The file explorer in Windows is SO much better. Other than that, I am good - I do my HTML/CSS/JS/Php development on a mac with Apache, MySQL and Php and all of that works really nicely. What are you using to edit your videos? Premiere?
Just to clarify a thing, there is seperate options for trackpad and the mouse for scrolling direction, so you can change it for the mouse and not for the trackpad and vice versa.
not working for me. if i change the direction for the trackpad, it changes for the mouse the same way. only with logi options it can overrule the mac setting so that my MX Masters scrolls standard and my trackpad naturally
that's not what he's complaining about. Changing the setting changes it for external mice with scroll wheels, and not in a good way. the fix is software like UnnaturalScrollWheels, which only reverses it for external mice with scroll wheels.
@@depression_isnt_real i do not want to hear the device but macOS - since all the macOS versions i have use will change trackpad and external REAL MOUSE WITH SCROLLSHEEL direction with the same toggle - name might be different if there is scroll wheel mouse connected but the toggle is linked
I bought a macbook pro m2 for university last year. it's great for most things and especially for battery life. But there is one thing I didn't know: I started a course on internet, networks and computer security this year and we use many programs to analyze the network, virtual machines, etc. Guys it's a real nightmare, most of the programs are only for x86 CPUs and to make things work, the few that work, it's hell. If I had known this before I probably wouldn't have bought it. Guys if you want to study computer security or anything to do with the internet DO NOT buy a mac!!!
just run a windows vm like parallels, get the student discount. I think its worth it since the pros elsewhere are overwhelmingly worth it with the m chips
@@bnug242 I did It man, spent 50 bucks , but It didnt worked because the Windows OS on parallels for Mac M2 Is Windows ARM , while I needed Windows x86, which Is not supported by any virtualizator on Mac with chip M2. I'm not stupid, I tried everything
Yeah I mean for the performance the m1 mac was hard to beat for its time. Granted they were great for certain workflows. As a power user who does a little bit of everything, I cant see myself ever buying a mac. I understand the market but not being able to run x86 applications is a no go. Ive always said that if I could have the power efficiency of a Mac but the versatility of Windows, you would have a perfect laptop. Not even to mention that gaming on a Mac is probably one of the worst experiences Ive ever witnessed. Even for programmers it is annoying to try and find tools and apps that work on Mac to help your workflow. They are much more reliable but are very limited depending on what you are developing.
I recommend the Mac apps and tips video from snazzy labs. Also macOS has quite a few hidden features or controls that require the use of terminals, and some functionalities are indeed customizable.
well for me, Ive been using windows for 20 years, since I was 8, and never a Mac as my personal device. And through this time have built and sold thousands of windows systems and still building them. Three months ago I took a break and started doing computer science at uni, and I decided to go for my first Mac laptop after what I've seen the apple silicone can do, so I went for the m2 MacBook pro. And oh man it is amazing, I don't think any of the windows laptops would match the performance and battery of this monster in my use case, have not tried it at the heavy work like 3D rendering and design (well gaming sucks). But yeah I might never return to windows laptops!
After a few years on windows I swapped back to Mac about the same time you did and I can definitely relate to a lot of what you talk about in this video, especially as I swap between having my Macbook docked and mobile daily. While I don't have such an issue with window snapping and I do actually use the green button, having to change my scroll direction every day certainly drives me a bit nuts. I also had to install software that got rid of MacOS's mouse acceleration as I much prefer having none after gaming on windows for years. Mac is generally much nicer to use but its unfortunate that there are a few quirks that Apple refuses to fix that forces one to go out of their way and download third party software.
all the mac downsides I 100% agree with. I have multiple different small programs to fix the user experience. Also love how I left the mac on my dresser for a week unplugged and opened it and it turned on instantly.
Great video and very good points! For the closing the window but the application is still running issue, I hit cmd + q and it'll close all windows and the application 😊 took me a while to figure out but has been a game changer ever since
You made the video that describes my exact same computing journey. I’m a lifelong windows user (20+ yrs). Every Windows laptop I’ve ever bought had to be chained to a power supply because the battery never lasted more than a few hours. Performance always sucked compared to a desktop too, no matter how expensive I configured the CPU and RAM. When I found out that Intel CPUs always throttle their power in laptops, I was so mad. All the money I wasted over the years on faster and faster cpus, not knowing that throttling was happening 🤬 I bought the 13” M1 MacBook Pro after watching the amazing reviews on UA-cam. I initially only bought it for mobile use. But it was so awesome that I use it 90% of the time and my desktop PC just sits there powered off. After I finish migrating the last few bits and pieces from my desktop to Mac, I’m going to disassemble my AMD Ryzen tower that I built in 2020 and sell all of the parts on eBay. I’m not going back because Apple Notes, Mail, Reminders etc all fit perfectly into my life, and Office365 works great too.
One tip to see all the open windows of an application is to press the control + down arrow. You can also control + click the icon in the dock and choose the 'show all windows' option.
Drag and drop in Mac is what I think the most convenient thing about Mac. U can drag from email to web browser, from finder to email, plus without having to worry about worms, constant antivirus update reminders and less troubleshooting needed (like blue screen, etc).
@@MultiNakir The only Mac virus I've ever personally seen in the last 16 years was an MS Word macro virus. So not even really a "Mac" virus, per se. Not saying the don't exist, but it's just not something Mac users really need to worry much about.
@@arround1 unfortunately I still have to keep a 12" powerbook and iMac G4 to run some of my favorite old VST instruments and iTunes visualizers that didn't transition over... damn I wish the QEMU/UTM team would hurry up in getting the PPC emulator up to speed
As an ex windows that also switched to mac a few years back user I strongly recommend to start using the green button at the top left! Full screen applications and switching between them via 3 finger swipe to me is part of why macos is so great for productivity. You can also show two windows side by side in one fullscreen frame. And regarding the window snapping: I don't even miss it anymore, because I rarely use more than two windows side by side.
Hey. For closing programs, just press cmd+Q. And closing instances (or browser-tabs) cmd+W. In contrast to windows MacOS has "basically" global shortcuts. While the windows culture created a wild-west of app design, MacOS is basically led by apples design guidelines. So every text-editing app you will ever see has cmd+b for bold, cmd+f is always find, cmd+ctrl+f is always fullscreen (if the window supports fullscreen) etc. Basically imagine the consistancy of "ctrl+c" on windows, but instead with everything on MacOS. It's ACTUALLY worth learning. It will improve productivity by a lot.
As for window management, it takes a while to get used to. I’d recommend to try stage manager, to put a lot of windows in full screen (you can three finger swipe between them) and to buy a magic trackpad instead of a mouse. It’s what the entire os is built around it seems like
yeah it drives me nuts when everyone always complains about window management but doesn't actually try to use it as intended. I got my MacBook Air in 2021 and the built-in window management works like a dream. Though, I'm very much a trackpad person. I think I've plugged in a mouse like 5 times over 2 years.
@@patemathic Full screen windows are so stupid when you can tile them next to one another. Instead of constantly switching, just have them both at the same time on your screen bruh.
I found a workaround for the mouse scroll direction issue you referenced. There is a setting in the mouse software that changes the scroll direction without messing with the Apple trackpad direction. This won't apply to all mice, but mine had it as an option. I have the Logitech MX Master 3S, the mac specific model. It's a $100 mouse, but I think its worth it.
February 21 I needed a new laptop. Wanted to try something new and got the M1 air. To this day I’m still amazed how premium this feels, how snappy it runs, how long the battery lasts. My wife bought her windows laptop (a Lenovo something) around the same time and she’s getting issues here and there, MacBook still running like the first day. Within a year I switched my entire ecosystem to Apple and never regretted it. My windows pc is mostly off these days, when i actually play it’s on the steam deck.
Also M1 air for me as my first Mac. I switched for the performance but in hindsight, the build quality (speakers, trackpad, keyboard, microphone) etc were the much better upgrade. All while being ultra light weight. I never had a desk PC, always windows laptops but didn’t really move them around a lot because they were heavy and have bad battery. Now i work on the couch, in the train, living room… wherever i want. I don’t need chargers and mouse anymore and it’s super light and portable. Didn’t expect so much more quality of life from this…
I have tried to move to mac for my desktop (got a Mac Mini 1&GB RAM 1TB) but I can get used to MacOS. In addition to the issues you mentioned, the scaling for external monitors is much messier on MacOS than on Windows, also multitasking is definitely not as good. And I don't hate Windows, I am perfectly fine with it. The only reason was to avoid any fan noise. But what I did is moved my desktop to the other end of the room and run cables (bought something to hide them) so that I don't hear it any more (was not very noisy to beging with but I want total silence).
I unironically press the green button. I tend to use the fullscreen quite a lot, and I kinda like how it automatically puts the window in a new desktop; in Windows I could open more apps on the same page, but most of the time it would just minimize which basically is the same thing, but different. Also, the only reason I press it is because I'm too lazy to learn that one shortcut.
This is incredible, I've been through exactly the same journey! Didn't like Apple, got a Razer Blade 15", loved it at first, grew to be very displeased with it, sold my Windows PCs, and got an M1 MacBook Pro and I LOVE it. When you spend a third of your life on a computer, this is absolutely life-changing. Ah, the quietness, smoothness, and lack of burnt fingers are incredible. Great video!
I actually just did the exact same thing here at work, I have been on Windows my entire life. I imaged a 2019 Intel 16 inch i7 with 32GB of RAM. It feels really good, and the more I learn, the better it gets. My favorite part, is using a iPad for a separate screen! I keep either my Outlook or Teams open on a 12.9 inch iPad pro under my ultra wide monitor. It's actually really slick!
If Apple took the GPU a bit more seriously, I'd reconsider using a mac for 3D/simulation work. The OS definitely beats Windows, although I can't understand why they still haven't brought the Finder out of the Cold War era.
All the stuff you miss from Windows are the exact same things I miss too. Thankfully, I use rectangle (free) for window snapping , smooth scroll (paid) for fixing external mouse scrolling, and sensiblesidebuttons (free) to make the side buttons on my mouse work. It's annoying that I had to search online for third party applications that would work for me to fix these issues, but now that it's fixed it is mostly much smoother than windows. My final gripe would be that finder changes views too much. I would much rather stick to one view every time I use Finder but I haven't gotten it to work consistently for me yet. EDIT: Wanted to add that I do like how I can keep my MacBook on just by going into terminal and typing in caffeinate -d while in windows I had to search for a long and ugly powershell command.
@jamesramsey2400 It's not about Windows, its about x64 vs ARM chips. The Snapdragon Elite X laptops (also running Windows) give Apple's M chips a run for their money and even lasts more on battery I've seen
@@Random131_Yh IK, but the windows laptops with arm chips have compatibility issues at the moment as they rush to compete, I use windows but I have to admit apple pulled of the switch to arm chips much better also apples displays are pretty much all much better as well @Random131_
You can have the best hardware in the world in your PC, but it's still Windows. People use Macs for the software, the hardware is secondary. I use both. I use Windows literally just to play games, everything else is done on my Macs. I much prefer using my now ancient 27" iMac and practically brand new M3 MacBook Pro to my Windows desktop, but the Windows desktop runs circles around them in terms of hardware power, especially in the GPU department. But then the 4080 in my PC is literally bigger than the MacBook Pro so you'd kind of hope it would be more beefy. I hate Windows, it just allows me access to the other software I enjoy using. They're tools at the end of the day, I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford both for the different tasks I require of them, so I have the best tools for a particular job you could say. I know not everyone has that option.
@@xE92vD I don't use Linux and I won't use it for anything more than messing around with or some kind of dedicated server box because it doesn't run the software I use to make my living. And no, I'm not going to mess around to get it to work, I don't have the time or inclination, nor is it supported if something goes wrong. I'm past the point of spending hours troubleshooting things with my tech, that's a young persons game or someone with lots of time on their hands (great if you have it, not having a go at those who are or do). I just want my stuff to work and get out fo the way so I can use it for what I need to do with it. Linux will never be where Mac OS or Windows are because the same thing that makes it so powerful is what makes it so unappealing to the masses. We'd need to gather around a single distro for proper support for more commonly used tools, which would then make the point of Linux kind of redundant given the whole idea is you make it suit your needs and not the other way around. Most developers don't even see the point in supporting the Mac as it's another codebase they need to target and support on top of Windows, never mind the many thousand flavours of Linux.
@@famousmwofficial8046 I wonder why. Because Apple made it not possible to have compatibility with anything? That's not an argument. And also, 90% of all apps in macos can be found for windows as well, which can be run on Linux using WINE
@@xE92vD it's not apples fault stop being ignorant. Theres no money in commercial apps for the desktop on Ubuntu devs won't bother. Apple has exclusive software they won't release on Windows either but theres other devs too they won't support Ubuntu and derivatives and other Linux flavours are even worse off.
As a lifelong Windows user, the one thing that I can't seem to get my intuition to agree with is the single, unified title/menu bar for every application via Finder. I much prefer individual apps to have their own menu system assosicated with their individual application window rather than a single one that's constantly switching which program it controls. It makes it much more confusing to work with multiple applications and/or program windows at once.
are you seriously saying that the razer was too heavy, i had an m1 macbook air and it was the heaviest piece of shit i have ever carried. now i have a hp laptop and its so much lighter.
The full screen green button is great. The Magic Touchpad gestures are totally needed with Mac. Swiping with 3 fingers lets you swipe between full-screen apps quickly. Finder isn't a good example to use it with. Windows 11 tried copying this whole feature with creating "multiple desktops". While you can't snap windows and that would be a good feature to add, you can just double click on the top bar of a window to auto-size it to the height of the screen. So you set the width of the window you want then just double click the top bar to expand it up/down to the corners. MacOS is just so clean and easy to use. Any tiny quirks you mention here are fixable just like you would fixing things on Windows by adding third party software or changing around settings. Ultimately MacOS is just way more polished and now that there is Apple silicon working in tandem with the software and we now have the trifecta of software, hardware, and CPU/GPU all working together and optimized by Apple it's an insane performance beast that is going to exponentially get better at an alarming rate each year. The M3 series chips are mindboggling..... M3 Ultra/Max is already competing with the latest Intel 13th Gen top of the line CPUs, and the GPU is catching up the RTX 4000 series all with an INTEGRATED GPU.... no dedicated GPU!
Window management on MacOS works quite differently then it does in windows. Firstly about needing to quit the app, the reason (probably) isn't ram usage, I believe its an interaction design they purposefully chose, my explanation is that they just want you to actively think about quitting an app seperately from closing an window, while this method might seem unnecessary at first I think it becomes very helpful when trying to multitask and manage many windows and apps, especially in conjunction with mission control. And the thing it does when fullscreening an app is also explained by mission control, when you full screen an app it essentially moves into its own desktop, you can view all you desktop from mission control or move between them using a 4 finger swipe on the trackpad. And lastly the lack of preview when hovering over app icons on the dock is also fixed by mission control, just go to mission control and you will see all of your windows. I like this better than the little floating preview on windows's taskbar because that can be quite clunky, I only find it easy enough to use when there are very few windows open, ideally 2, maybe upto 3. Oh and rectangle gives you window snapping on mac for free.
> Firstly about needing to quit the app, the reason (probably) isnt ram usage, I believe its an interaction design they purposefully chose, my explanation is they just want you to actively think about quitting an app separately from closing an window, while this method might seem unnecessary I think it becomes very helpful when trying to multitask and manage many windows and apps, especially in conjunction with mission control. It's a completely different app model than the one from Windows/Linux, and as someone who got a MacBook a year ago as first Apple computer too I immediately really liked it and really wish there was a Linux desktop that did this. The important thing is that on macOS, an app can exist without a window because of the menu bar and because cmd+tab is per-app instead of per-window. If there are no windows, you can still focus the app using cmd+tab or clicking the app icon (though that usually creates a window if one doesn't exist) and use the menu bar or shortcuts (imo the coolest part!) to open a new document or whatever. This means that apps have a first-class way to stay open in the background. Mail.app does this really well for example, while it's open but all the windows are closed it still checks for new mail without needing some tray icon or background service, and you can just quit it to stop that. The whole desktop workflow immediately clicked with me and I much prefer it over the Windows one (or rather Plasma desktop which I'm still using on my main Linux computer, which is pretty much the same). I do have Rectangle installed but recently have barely used it, mainly to center windows, but window snapping is still the one big thing that's lacking regardless. The split fullscreen window thing is just really limited and annoying because I don't think there's any keyboard shortcuts for it (I'd be all over it if they made it be able to tile windows arbitrarily like a tiling window manager on Linux though!)
@@2xsaiko Exactly! This is the thing people dont get, the macos desktop interface/experience is just logical and makes sense and thus allows for highly intuitive workflows like the one you mentioned. After learning how macos desktop works I realized how clunky things are on windows, and now i really want to switch. I suddenly became aware of how frustrated and annoyed I was everytime i did any form of window management on windows (Ironic). Although, I dont think window sanpping is really usefull, i dont think windows are meant to be snapped like that as I never find them convinient that way, i much prefer freely floating windows. Id rather want windows snapping at the edge of the screen and not go over them. I think apple left out window snapping intentionally. Overall I think apple does wonders with their User experience and interaction design and I dont think anybody even comes close.
yep. for me, I was just complaining about the way windows handles app closing to my friend the other day. apps like discord and steam stay open in the background when you close their windows but can’t be told to close by using their taskbar icon. having to use the tray, especially when the behavior of different apps isn’t standardized feels incredibly clunky. (for example discord only shows up in the tray when it is focused, so closing it fully requires opening a window, going to the tray, then quitting from there instead of using the taskbar icon.) on macOS, the distinction between closing windows and closing apps is intuitive and easy to work with. as for multitasking, I’m so used to navigating between full screen apps using gestures that I rarely find myself using the desktop unless I’m using something like finder or terminal. something like firefox or spotify is pretty much always going to be in its own space. when I have spacial reasoning for switching between applications using gestures, it makes it really natural to get where I want to be. something like command tab is nice to have, but it isn’t immediately obvious how the applications will be ordered and so requires visual feedback before you know how many times to press it. when using the 3 finger swipe to get between spaces, I know how I ordered things and where I am right now, so I know what motions I’ll be performing before I even make my first input.
What most people don't realize is that on windows many apps will remain open despite disappearing from the taskbar. Chrome, Steam, Adobe apps all do this nonsense. MacOS at least tells you hey this still exists in memory/background. I used to be a huge windows fanboy and worked at Google providing Windows/IT support. They gave me a Mac temporarily, I fell in love and became an iOS engineer years later.
Prior to the Arm chips, the dells and razors etc were much closer to the mac in terms of performance, battery etc. But that M1 pro and the successors really changed the game. My work M1 pro 14" machines are insane and id never want to go back for a laptop. For dev work, even the M2 and 3 seem redundant, its going to be a long time before an upgrade will feel necesary, and i bet these hold great value. Im not a huge fan of MacOS still, but i've learned to cope. I hate the window management particularly.
Macs have always had better battery life even before they moved to Apple Silicon. Mac OS is just better that resource and power management than Windows is. I know this because I've run Windows natively in Boot Camp on multiple Intel Macs and see how on the exact same hardware one performs consistently better than the other. Even to the point where you actually notice the tiny Bluetooth lag of your keyboard and mouse when in Windows compared to Mac OS because Windows to this very day still has a shitty ass non-full stack implementation of the standard. This is why many wireless mice and keyboards still come with their own goddamn dongle which uses that manufacturers own specific take on the thing.
I bought a MacBook Air years ago, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to use and how seamlessly it integrated with my iPhone. Despite not Being able to customize some things to the degree I’d like and feeling like there was less flexibility, I still enjoyed the experience and I could see the appeal. I haven’t bought an apple product since, not even another iPhone until this week where I’ve just bought an iPad and I’m once again reminded of how smooth the experience is on Apple products. I’m older now and have less time to tinker and play around, so I want stuff to just work, so I’m debating about getting back in to apple devices again. But I’m sure I’ll find some not so common things that I can’t do or will have to pay a high fee or expensive subscription to fix if I do. Also not being able to play my steam library on my laptop would suck.
While there are issus out there, I'm running my Macbook 14 on only free software which took almost no time to download or set up, and it's running smooth as butter. Get the following to be able to customize your Mac like a Windows: Linearmouse - Make your third party mouse have natural scrolling, or remove mouse acceleration Rectangle - To snap your windows efficiently And that's essentially all annoyances that comes with Mac being a experienced Windows fanatic. Games will come with time now that Apple has added support for game devs to use, but there are no great ones out there at the moment except for a few (which still puts out my gaming thirst on the weekend if I have any, like No Mans Sky, Hearthstone, CSGO, and a few other)
Its interesting because macOS in many cases is actually far more customizable then windows but in other cases I feel apple stubbornly dragged their heels (the natural scrolling issue is one)
I guess this is the tradeoff for a safer and better OS. I'm sure they have their reasons to why they haven't updated this yet, unfortunately.@@hajjdawood
A tip on the green button. That is the full screen button. You can quickly swap between your full screen windows by holding the control button and the arrow keys: you can also do this by swiping right or left with 4 fingers (could be 3 tho) on the trackpad. You can also create virtual desktops. You can toggle through all of these the same way. It allows for many apps and desktops to be open at the same time allowing for a lot of flexibility. I love it, and use this feature on windows as well (they came to implement this feature in windows 10).
It's a productivity game-changer. With a laptop, to get any real work done you always have to be conscious about charging. So you're always in that "I'll do it when I get back to the office / home mode" For me I run various apps in Docker, VS Code, Outlook, MS Office all day long without plugging in. :) It's way worth the weird quirks & and Stage Manager has helped a lot..
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@@masfaizwoilahrekmac is good tho
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Good morning!
until the m1 MacBook Air, i never owned a Mac. now i own an m3 Max 16-inch macbook pro. because of this i switched to iphone and every other apple device. are there problems? yes. 100%
i still have a pc for gaming
What do you do for a living
@@Kwint. I used to run multiple businesses and do photography but now I’m a security guard in an insane asylum while I go to uni for my comp sci degree
I still own the businesses but they are a side hustle, at least for now
Oh and as an Australian I only work 40 hours a week for it to be considered full time and have no reason to work more, I heard Americans sometimes work 50-90 hours a week, no way
@@himynameisryan Thats awesome man! what an insane collective :p
Same story here. Got an M2 mac from work after being on windows my whole life. Still sceptical about some choices apple made but it is the best piece of hardware I ever used
Fun fact: The finder icon is not a smiley face. The right part is a human face and the left part is a computer screen. It doesn't look like that now but it was significant in the previous versions of the logo.
Sooooo… is this Schwarzenegger's Terminator?
HOLY SHIT I SEE IT NOW
@@xomnionProgrammingAndChessI don’t
um no its literally one face with the purpose to be an illusion, why would a screen have a random line and dot? what?
@@Xackory it just shows half of the smile the other half is covered by the human
I felt what you felt now in 2021 when I got my M1 Air, literally the best laptop at that time. Sooo many use cases where it just did the job brilliantly. Is still in daily use today and yes, still quick, does not overheat, NO fan and still around 16-17 hrs battery life in light tasks or consuming media.
i'm sorry how does it not overheat? are you using it for 2d apps? maybe do some sort of non graphical work on it? how do you see it at the "best" laptop at that time when a yoga7 was over it on every spec including having proper not noisy cooling
By not using unnecessary computing power. Apples chips are efficient. And they are tightly controlled in software. the perks of being a company controlling everything.
@@MultiNakir The M1 chip is just insanely efficient. It doesn't even need to throttle when unplugged. Also the metal case is a good conductor of heat.
@@MultiNakirfor a start , apple silicon laptops don’t drop down too one third the performance as soon as you unplug them , battery life on the MacBooks is great , speakers are great , they have nice screens , very little to complain about with the Mac , if I get a phone call at home while my phone is another room it comes through on the Mac and I can just take the call on the Mac seamlessly.
And this is coming from a pc and android user since for over a decade.
They are not perfect and nothing is , but they do have a lot of good points.
@@mikldude9376 you can't really say the screens are great. they definitely are "great" on the pro models but certainly not on the m2 air and m1 air
I LOVE the green button!
Making an app fullscreen using the green button puts it into a new virtual desktop, and I can switch between virtual desktops with a three finger swipe to the left or right. I've been using MacBooks for 7 years, and the three finger swipe gesture feels as natural as walking, I don't have to think about it.
Looking for this comment lol
I see this issue around me all the time when people try MacOS. Windows windows style management (hehe) is so deep rooted in their head, everyone just refuses to try learning this.. it's not better or worse, but once you learn it, it is as efficent
@@sk8llYeah, but what do you do when you're not on a MacBook? The Mac Minis, Pro, Studio, and iMac still exist. The desktop experience really needs some improvement.
@@Spirrwell That segment I completely forgot, not going to lie... and it still feels like Apple would like users to use Trackpads even with those machines. I can probably imagine myself doing that, but I can see how that's a biiig stretch
@@Spirrwell You swipe on your magic mouse. Its exactly the same as on the trackpad.
I swapped to M1 a year before you. My work Windows laptop constantly reminds me of what I don't miss about Windows machines so I don't see myself missing it anytime soon.
As a Linux user with too much time on my hands, I feel called out 😂
As another Linux user, I now have more time on my hands because of Linux. No more random Windows nonsense to deal with.
It's the complete opposite nowadays but the memes will last forever, as long as you don't fall for the memes and install something like Arch or Gentoo, as long as you don't fall in the ricing rabbit hole and stick to the default experience of your distro, it will never get in your way and it'll "just work".
I do like Linux as an OS, but i cant run all my industry standard adobe and Affinity apps and the linux vector equivalent Inskape is shockingly 90's clunky in the UX. I'm glad it has Blender though... Just not enough support for an artist IMO.
@@JamesWilliam70 honestly yeah that’s completely understandable! Also you can’t beat the optimisation apple has done for media and content creation.
Though from what I’ve seen, adobe seems to be moving more towards the cloud so soon you might be able to start doing some things in the web browser. Another option is to migrate alternatives like gimp/darkroom which might be similar? (Don’t hold me to that, I have very little experience with that kind of thing)
Im just gonna jump in here & agree with this lol
To use multitasking at the Windows level, you can install "rectangle", which is very convenient and there are hotkeys for moving windows and resizing them.
yeah, its great and it barely affects anything else, just gives you the cool window snapping feature
Yeah I actually insralled it like a few days ago lol. Now my mac feels like better version of windows
oh yeah i love this
I use Magnet, which sounds like the same thing.
@@Jdb63Except Rectangle is free. 😉
I am also a heavy Windows user and tried Mac a few months ago and I am amazed by the performance and silence of that device. I have right now a Mac Mini M2 with 8gb of unified memory and I am pushing this thing way to much and it is still usable, of course it has a little bit of a lag when pushed to far but it does not freeze. The only thing that I do not know I will ever get used to is the windows switching in Mac but the rest is ok for me. You are right, each OS is meant for something and one is better in some way and another is better in another way :)
I’m editing 6K raw videos on the same machine. Pushing this thing wayyy to hard lol
8gb is fucking crazy how do you live like that
Storage and ram upgrades on Mac is crazy
this is incredible. You hit so many weird problem/quirks that annoy the hell out of me with mac os, like the scroll being backwards with mice. But you also hit on why I like macs at the same time. We must have the same thought process or something
Settings > Mouse > Natural Scrolling. its about 8 seconds to fix
Corrects scrolling for your mouse but messes up scrolling for your trackpad. It is not a fix for the problem outlined. @@coldacre
@@djkid14567 Not a problem, just a preference. It's defaulted to work best with trackpad and the Magic Mouse, which makes sense. If you decide to use a 3rd party mouse, you just have to change the that setting.
That’s funny because as a macos user if I tried windows then the windows scrolling would be backwards for me lol
Scroll reverser, it's free and detects mouse vs trackpad
1 week ago I ordered an M3 Pro 14' and about to switch after over 10 years of using windows, thank you for this video!
You didn't switch?
@@vimal-cliobconsulting I did, it just took a long time to arrive. Ordered on the 1
November and it came out on the 7 November and I got it.3’dsys ago
What do you think of it? How's it goin?
@@niannolanI’ve using it for one year and still don’t get used to it.
used windows for like the first 10 years of my life and then i got a 2012 imac and ever since i have never looked back to windows other then tinkering with an inspiron 3650
idk why yall whine about the hinges of Windows laptops, i had a Lenovo Thinkpad 440s for about 5 years and not even a single problem and btw that laptop was made in 2013 sooooooooo it had a lot of hinge usage after the years and NOTHING on it broke, i only switched the 128GB SSD for a 1TB one. Now i have bought myself a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 Gaming and man is it good, only thing is that now i can play demanding games id like to have a bigger ssd (512gn one rn).
As a Linux user, I bought an old MacBook Pro just to try macOS, but I got sick of all those little inconveniences you pointed out, and more, so I decided to go back to Linux and buy a ThinkPad. I don't regret, at least now I know that macOS is just not for me. From my experience, Linux gets out of my way, but gives me the whole control, while on macOS, to make it fit me, I'd have to spend a lot of money on third-party apps, many of which are subscription-based.
you could've installed linux on an old macbook
@@eckee I did, and it wasn't a good experience because of an unreliable WiFi driver. Also, it was, well, an old MacBook, which means it was heavy, slow, and lasted only about an hour on battery.
Ah my homies linux users nice
Many Linux applications work on Mac, there are many free and open source applications to customize Mac OS. I use Windows and Linux on a Mac M1 laptop with awesome battery life. I still have a windows machine for when windows x86 is absolutely necessary and an old 09 iMac with Linux Debian for VMs, Linux disks and SD cards file system.
@@RolandoMarreroPR I'm glad it works for you, but I don't want to spend several days trying to find apps to customize macOS just the way I want it. Also I just prefer the layout and workflow of Gnome desktop, which I use on Linux. Aaand I don't really want to spend more then a thousand euros on a laptop, a 2019 ThinkPad for ~450€ works great for me, and I don't have any issues with drivers. Aaalso it has 2 USB type A ports, which modern MacBooks lack. And the keyboard is the best I've ever experienced, with long key travel and nice tactile bump.
The reason that installing and uninstalling the apps is like that because they are small container-like apps which keep all the files in the same place unlike in windows app where an app can install multiple files/configurations on multiple locations (appdata, registry etc etc.)
Nah. Mac apps keep files everywhere too. You need a cöean uninstall tool too
This is exactly why uninstalling is a pain on Windows. Find all the bull crap everywhere on your system.
I’ve never really noticed this since I’m mainly on Windows, but this is a very good point. Windows is downright sloppy in some ways.
Unfortunately while that should be the case in reality mac apps also often spew random files into locations like ApplicafionSupport or other hidden locations.
Not just application support or preferences, try private/var/ and many, many other places macs hide files. Switched to Mac in 2005, I still miss my windows xp tower to this day 😭
1:17 “i just wish somebody had told me that before” i feel u bro.
I also switched. At first it was unusual, especially with window management, as the author of the video noted.
I didn’t want to install unnecessary tweaks and programs, so I got used to it and accepted what the OS offers out of the box.
To remove apps I use AppCleaner, because if you just drag and drop them into the trash, there will be a bunch of leftovers in the system folders.
Exactly, so many leftovers all over the place, it is not even funny
For window management I mostly have each program full screened and use gestures to swap between desktops. You can swipe up with 3 fingers to rearrange them in any way you want by dragging them around. It works but it’s still frustrating
@@petrzurek5713tbf you have the same problem with windows. Sometimes config files are at the root or in one of the three appdata folders
@@coinbongo4694when I work it might be 10-20 different windows open, I got anxiety even thinking about swiping through them all to find what I need
Why would you go look at leftovers? They really don’t matter. At all. You never see them.
I used Windows from 1993 to 2022. I switched to Mac because of the exceelent performance of the M1 with music applications. I actually just bought the Macbook pro to be used as a portable device, expecting to buy a higher specs Mac for desktop use. However, the Macbook worked so well that I regretted I didn’t get one with more RAM and harddisk. So now I consider getting an M3 Macbook with higher specs as my one and only for both studio and potability.
lmao exact same thing with me
I'll be saving up for my first Macbook Pro with M3 Max and I'll definitely max out the RAM, since I know RAM can't be upgraded.
@@paolaanimator Max out to 128GB?
@@blackmamba6938 I plan on maxing out 128GB since I work with 3D files plus been working with more 4K content. I may work with 8K in the future, so it helps to future proof my laptop, along with extra storage since video and project files gets pretty big.
@@paolaanimatorif you can afford it it’ll be good
One thing, with some years being exceptions, Mac laptops are built really well and software updates support up to 7-8 year old machines. My current personal laptop is 6 years old, hinges are still stiff, screen is bright and colors are true, trackpad clicks like new, runs without obvious lag, on latest software, is running 10 hours a day next to my workstation. Battery has gotten rough, but can still get 2 hours out of it. Overall the ROI is very good.
I recently replaced my 13 year old MacBook Pro, mostly because it's slow as shit these days and the battery decided to expand its horizons (and the case lol). It's otherwise still in pristine condition after very heavy use almost daily for much of its life. It was replaced with an M3 MacBook Pro. I also have a 27" iMac which I wish they'd make a true 1 to 1 replacement for, and a custom gaming PC. I think I'll just buy a mini and a nice 4K display (or spend silly money on the Studio Display lol) and replace the iMac with those as my new primary Mac desktop set up. I've never, ever owned any of my PC's nearly half as long as I have any of my Macs. They're just useful for longer in my experience. That's probably biased by my use of PC's as purely a gaming platform though so the performance deficiencies become more obvious more quickly.
8:44 Apple doesn't want MacOS to be windows like and Microsoft doesn't want windows to remind people of MacOS. These little differences will always exist to pull or push users either toward or way from an OS. MacOS is great and Apple makes a solid piece of hardware to go along with it, but Windows runs on a lot of hardware and can be actually affordable for people.
Idk man windows feels a bit overpriced with all the damn telemetry and bloat Microsoft puts on there
It's funny that these are pretty much my exact sentiments after using a Mac for my work and Windows for home for about three years now. I've always used a Windows desktop and I've had two Windows laptops (both of the gaming variety) and I finally got tired of lugging the heavy thing around, the weird battery mode performance and the noise, just like you said, and I switched to a Macbook Pro as my primary machine.
Honestly, if you favor laptop formfactors, this is primarily a workstation and you don't have any software that is Windows proprietary, you're probably better off with a Mac. I love the experience, and I can only hope that one day Windows machines could become greater so we get even better design.
i love how light the thing is, but what pushes me away from that thing is that ir doesn’t support gaming that much😂
@@Suc-ChiiThere are developments in the space of running Windows games on Mac, such as Crossover and Whisky that utilise the Game Porting Toolkit codebase and combine it with Wine (a Windows compatibility layer and emulator) to run an ever-expanding number of games locally on Mac, as well as virtualisation from the likes of Parallels and VMware that have just recently implemented DirectX 11 hardware acceleration support, so that you can run most PC games (and also DirectX 12 non-Ultimate, since the base version is just DX11), and are working on DX12 Ultimate support.
The M3 and up have new mesh-shading and ray-tracing accelerators in each core, so it can, in theory, finally play games like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing enabled.
And there are ports from established developers such as Capcom, Kojima and Ubisoft, as well as the number of mobile games and ports of popular PC games that you can run on ARM Macs.
If you don’t game on a PC on a regular basis, I’d advise you to get one of these MacBooks.
@@Suc-ChiiThing is, no one wants to reoptimize their games for not only a proprietary graphics api, but a whole proprietary arm CPU
Oh and you can't find pirated stuff for MacOS
At least (until the m series) you could install windows through boot camp and now you can kind of get it to run ok using parallels desktop or whatever it was called (a VM, less than ideal)
Same love windows on desktop. But windows laptops are just…bad. I have a Mac as my primary portable machine.
I switched from Mac to Linux and it was one of the best decision I ever made.
110 other people agree with you :D
how do you "switch"? are there dedicated pcs that come with linux
@@neon5729 you only need Google computers preloaded linux.
@@neon5729no u gotta install it urself but its free
I don't believe a single word of that. I tried Linux and if you want to get anything done Windows. If you are old or mentally challenged Mac. If you want a laptop Mac at least for now.
For people watching, to uninstall a "full" program on mac is not as easy as this video shows / files will be left behind. Using an app like appcleaner will glob search for files related to the software publisher key string in your mac and delete those files too (on your confirmation). Lots of apps leave behind traces of themselves on mac.
To be fair so does it in Windows in your registry and the hidden AppData
Although you have "uninstall" option in Windows, it leaves lots of trash files, registry keys etc in your system. Using MacOS third party uninstaller actually removes the app. I didn't find good working alternatives on Windows
@@RzariRzaricrystalIDA uninstaller removes traces/registry entries without any issue, not free though.
It makes it easy to update my pirated copy of Final Cut Pro😂
@@RzariRzari there are PLENTY of options for Windows, both paid and free. That said, the files Windows leaves behind are so that if you ever re-install the app, you can "most of the time" pick up where you left off. The files left behind are generally small in size and only serve to backup your settings.
8:02 If you right-click on the app icon in the doc, you'll see a list of your open documents for that app and then you can select the one you want, or open a new document. An alternative is from the top menu bar under "Window" for that app, there is an option where you can merge all the documents into one window with multiple tabs. You can also right click a tab on a multi-tabbed window and select an option to move that tab to a new window.
In general, there are multiple ways of doing many things in the OS to achieve different things in different ways that many people are unaware of. The more you use it the more you'll discover them, and be pleasantly surprised. I see so many comments that say how bad the mac is a at doing different things because they think there is only one way of doing it on a mac. I agree, some things are done better on Windows, but there are also things that's done better on a mac. My personal and subjective preference is for macOS, but I agree with you, the best OS is what's best for the person using it for the tasks they have on hand at the time.
That is only if the developer of the app has implemented it, otherwise you will always get all the windows.
To your second part - Obviously, people will discover more things as they use a product, that's how it is for everything, but the things Melon points out are accurately things that should be intuitive and natural and need no "Discovery". That's just pure bad design by Apple.
I think there is a heavy reliance of "Expose" or "Mission Control" in macOS. The use of compartmentalising workspaces with virtual desktops and using "Expose" to quickly switch between applications/windows. F3/Double tap mouse/four finger swipe up/Mission Control in dock is your friend.
Old habits die hard for a lot of people and quickly run to the dock and use it like a windows taskbar. If you want a better visual way to switch around apps then "Expose"/"Mission Control" is the quickest way to do so.
Checked the comments for someone who shared this tidbit before I helped. Good on you mate. :)
@@Zeales Intuitiveness is subjective. Obviously some coming from Windows to macOS will find things unintuitive since they are used to a different way of accomplishing things.
But that same argument can be applied to those coming from macOS to Windows, that Windows is unintuitive since they are used to a different way of doing things, and shouldn't need "Discovery" and is therefore just pure bad design by MS.
Apple phones usually have better cameras than other phones, which is nothing, because Apple phones cost so much more, you are technically buying a phone plus a stand-alone dedicated camera.
Otherwise, Apple products are for superficial people with limited computer literacy who don't mind being trapped in Apple's IOS ecosystem where all the Apple devices work so seamlessly together without much tinkering.
One can do video editing on any machine, Windows or IOS, but the trade off in lack of software isn't worth it to me. Back in the day there were lots of programs trying to make their way to Apple that would crash every few minutes. Limewire, MSN Messenger, different browsers, just to name a few things.
Not to mention gaming... let's not even go there.
Wdym Apple phones cost so much more ? This is a thing of a past, every flagship phone costs equal or more money than apple phones.
Lets do a standard comparison of 2 most popular phone Brands of Each side, Apple Iphone 15 pro Max = 1199$, S24 Ultra = 1299$.
Like I said Android phones are equal in price or more expensive than Iphones, this "Oh iPhones are expensive" is a relic of the past, because its been a decade if not more that both Apple and Android devices are equal in price, and tbh nowdays androids tend to be even more expensive.
Second point u made about people being iliterate if they use their computers/laptops is just delusional, and points out that you have no relevant job in IT industry because if you did you would know exactly why Macbooks are so valuable for work.
1) Price, Yes macbooks are more affordable if you want a premium device with such specs, because equivalent premium device would be something like Dell XPS which usually costs more, or something like ROG Zephyrus Lineup which is WAY more expensive. No you cannot get 700$ windows laptop and call it a day, cuz you will get a shitty display and plastic build quality.
2) Efficiency, Macbook is actually a laptop that you can carry around which has ~15h+ of battery compared to any windows laptop which averages to around 4h besides new ARM ones and the reason why u are witnessing appearance of ARM CPUs in windows devices is because none of current windows laptop CPUs compare in efficiency to macbook, (New Ryzen CPU in AMD Zephyrus G16 2024 is promising though but it is 2k+)
3) Ease of use, Macbooks are very easy to get into and with few softwares feel no different than windows and actually feels way better to use, I used windows only since I was like 8 years old and thought that macbook is just trash and waste of money (wasn't aware of prices), but then this year I receieve a macbook from a company and oh boy is it a game changer, instantly picked it up and suddenly realized why windows is actually trash for work/content consumption.
Conclusion is: If you don't do heavy 3D modeling or Heavy gaming (macbook can handle lightweight games) then Macbook is a no brainer choice cuz for such price you won't get a better experience out of any windows laptop, because such laptops are 1.6k or 2k euros + for a Razer Blade 15 or Zephyrus G16 2024 or M16 2023, or dell XPS which is equally priced to Macbooks but performs worse. Don't be a hater and get that device, it will transform your work and show you what a true laptop experience is.
@@Leogos281 You started wrong and ruined an entire wall of text. Sneakily trying to base the conversation on flagships, when every damn thing Apple makes is more expensive than everyone else's, straight up, no cap. I feel like Apple made your reply, it can't be worth the read and i'm not buying.
I went through the exact same process with the M1 macbook pro 16" for software development. Completely changed my view and I 100% prefer mac for everything besides gaming.
For software development? OS wise, you actually get the short stick everywhere, outside of development for Mac. No hyper-v, no wsl2/native linux, terrible window management, terrible looking fonts on
@@dubble ??? "No hyper-v, no WSL2/native Linux" WSL2 isn't native Linux, it's just Linux on a hypervisor "terrible window management" subjective "terrible looking fonts on
It might change, apple is going more and more into gaming with every OS update
@@dubblewhat’re you even talking about? none of what you said is true, especially not the multitasking part
@@meta___ " terrible window management" subjective " Not subjective. Window management on MacOS is objectively horrible. You don't know how to work on a computer properly if you don't agree.
Can I like this video a million and one times. Absolutely love the animations and the creative spin in this video. I agree with the quirks on macOS, I just recently made a switch from windows myself. Great job with the video mate. you just got a new subscriber
Literally watching this on my new MacBook Pro m3, I already love it so much !!
This video was very well made. One thing I would like to state is, for window management, a really good app that is free is Rectangle. You won't find it on the app store but instead their website. One other thing, that little green button is the full screen button. Allows you to have multiple apps on different "screens/desktops" which you can swipe between using 3 or 4 fingers in a "claw" shape. This will be a horrible experience if you use a mouse.
Cant you just use mouse and swipe claw when need?
@@dipanggilmas3189 That's not really intuitive when trying to multitask. It would reduce productivity drastically. At that point, you may as well use a trackpad. When I refer to mouse, I am not referring to the Apple mouse as that thing is just, no.
@@CalebMakes I think it depends on where you have your laptop. For me I often have my hand on the trackpad while using the mouse just for the gestures. I haven’t felt any slowdowns and I am an avid shortcut user.
@@oh-noe Each to their own I guess. If it works for you and you find it best, then that's how it is. I personally find macOS highly orientated around a trackpad. Without a trackpad, the OS just loses that gesture focused design and is hard to navigate. I've attempted mouse and trackpad but going between both of them to navigate I found to be slow and annoying. I'm interested in how you've done the switch between the two for navigation, sounds interested.
@@CalebMakes I’m not going between them, I’m using both at the same time. Mouse for clicking and moving trackpad for gestures. If I’m not navigating the os and I’m focusing on something, my other hand rests on the keyboard for easy shortcuts
I've just switched too. The portability to power ratio the macbooks have is unmatched. I now charge it every 2-3 days and I use it a ton.
No regrets!
Have u tried dell xps 13 plus ?!
@@UrbanPlanner-t6k used xps 13 for 5 years, moved to m1 macbook pro. never in 3 years i heard the fan even one time and its so cold to touch. xps always stay hot even in basic tasks sometimes and the fan turns on a lot. Best decision I made moving to macbook. i might get arm based windows 12 touch device but no to any kind of windows laptop.
Have you tried a MacBook Air? No fans, all metal design that feels sturdy but light, and much better OS.
@hajjdawood lol then watch some videos it beats MacBook pros processing power.... and os?? No thanks I prefer the flexibility of windows. It's not a big deal to have a smooth os when u can do nothing on it
@@UrbanPlanner-t6k macOS in most areas of the OS has far greater flexibility then Windows. Hell the whole OS is run on a UNIX core. Also "do nothing on it" lol it's the favorite OS of engineers all over the world. I am a software engineer and do all of my work on macOS.
Wow, you got 3 hours out of your Windows laptop? I only got 45 minutes with my Alienware M2 R15! I think I played Call of Duty once and drained it in about 15 minutes with that RTX 2080. In any case, you should now try getting an Apple iPhone. I mean... just try it along with your Mac, then you'll get the full experience! That is a big reason I switched from PC to Mac about a year ago. I had to use a MacBook while my PC was being repaired. It took Dell about 4 months. When I got it back, I didn't want to leave the Mac, so I bought one.
If you're not a fan of the Apple window management I can strongly suggest Stage Manager, its a little weird to get used to at first but when you're constantly in and out of applications its a massive game changer to how you work. Whilst I did need to configure my dock a little bit because the default settings are pretty bad in my opinion, with these config changes stage manager compliments it incredibly.
I can confirm stage manager is awesome! I'm about 1yr into my switch and moved to stage manager last week. :-)
I use Magnet. It's miles better than stage manager. Why you wouldn't use the full screen real estate for the current task is beyond me. I also use command + tab to switch apps. Fast workflow with non of the fluff
I use HammerSpoon… if you are using more keyboards and less mouse, I personally find hammerspoon to be amazing.
@@rorykoehler9018 magnet is cool but there's a free option that is basically the same it's called "rectangle".
I tried Stage Manager for a few months, but it feels weird
this video was so good holy shit
its such a breath of fresh air compared to the average tech reviewer bombing you with a fancy ass B Roll every 30 seconds
6:18 they added windows snapping to macOS 15 Sequoia a few months ago (the machine is running macOS 14 Sonoma)
just like you I was always windows, but when I got my first macbook I could never go back a windows laptop. I still use windows for gaming every now and then but I could never look at it's screen without crying
Being a CS student and bonafide computer nerd, the software troubleshooting of Windows/Linux has (more of less) always been something more interesting than it was frustrating, and the amount of little added features people add for free use on github repos (lively, powertoys, themes and mods) are very nice things.
It's also nice to know that there's 100 different segments marketed to with Windows laptops from gaming to light travel partners(steam deck/Acer Swift) that can rival/beat apple silicon in different ways.
This kinda gets me off getting a mac (less the software and more the money and apple-ness, could honestly do a multi boot with win, Mac and Linux in one) due to the obvious limitations of getting no more than apple lets you.
Sorry for the rambling, i get that this is an uncommon opinion from someone spending more time and effort on tech than your average person, but i feel it's good to at least have it out there.
honestly, the more I try to code with windows the more I get annoyed by it. My problem with Mac is that the system is so locked down. I currently use WSL2 for work because I cant get a Linux PC from my company. I'll switch to kubuntu at home most for of my stuff and just dual boot to Windows for gaming.
I used to be an egotistical windows user. Then I started using Linux and realized that maybe I’m the stupid one.
I can't believe you articulated my exact thoughts better than I am on switching to Mac hahah.
7:06 this is because it IS similar. On MacOS applications (.app) _are_ folders! You can actually right click and navigate inside of them. Most Mac apps include all of their dependencies and resources and files, so deleting literally is as simple as deleting the app (eg folder). Yes there are some apps that have extra things they install, but most are self contained inside of the app folder thing.
Adobe stuff is the more obnoxious example of using an installer. Their files end up polluting your entire goddamn file system. You basically have to do a complete OS reinstall to make sure you get rid of that crap if you want to uninstall it all. They even have a separate uninstall cleaner utility on their website for once you've uninstalled it with the built in tool, which is kind of nuts when you think about it.
im soo glad you brought up the mouse scrolling problem lol I wish they had separated the mouse and trackpad settings so you can adjust hem individually. the reason however why the scrolling is backwards is because apple wants you to use the Magic Mouse which doesn't have a scroll wheel.
other thing worth mentioning is if you accidentally fullscreen the app or webpage easiest way to go back out of fullscreen mode is to hit the escape key.
all the reasons why you switched are the same as mine but one of the reasons why I wouldn't switch back is because of workstations on MacBooks. the fact that you can have 16 workstations open at once makes it usable without a monitor and truly makes the MacBook usable while away from a large screen.
I just got used to natural scrolling on my mouse but it trips me up every time I use a mouse anywhere else
It's insane they never added a separation of the two
Mac is the way! Also, the green button is actually very useful for working in fullscreen apps. Finder is a bad example. It's more intended to be used with apps that require focus, such as Final Cut Pro and Safari.
Green button is perfect on the laptop mode, it really takes advantage off the excellent trackpad gestures but absolutely falls apart for me when using a mouse + keyboard and with an external monitor
@@Yeezus2K I know this is an older comment but you can do the same thing with that setup using something like "Mac Mouse Fix" to give your mouse gestures like a trackpad. Literally works with any mouse. Or Logi Options+ if it's a Logitech mouse.
My first MacBook is almost 3 years old now, and it still runs as fast and smooth as the first day I started using it. If it was a Windows computer I would have had to format it once or twice already to have that "new machine performance" again. macOS has it flaws of course but the longterm overall is experience has been way better for me since switching from Windows Mac.
Because it's more locked down so you install less bloatware. if you quit installing dumb shit for windows it'd run the same after a decade.
@@ThePacmandevil Wrong. I've had multiple computers at a time for a while now, I've gone through multiple versions of Windows, MacOS and Linux distros alike, and even Windows computers that I use occasionally for checking email and accessing certain stuff end up slowing down just from the regular use and Windows updates even though they're literally just vanilla windows with ms office 365 installed.
@@yerielzamora You're probably fucking it up, then. I've been running the same windows box for a decade to run my friendgroup's MC server and the performance is identical to the day I got it
@@ThePacmandevil Nah you'vr just convinced yourself about it. I'm a software engineer and I know what I'm doing with the multiple computers I own and have owned. Windows is garbage that slows itself from its own updates.
My 2012 MacBook pro ran almost perfect for a decade.
yeah, i use both windows 11 and macos sonoma and what i hate the most from macos are you can’t maximize a window with just a single click, the green dots are useless, i can’t use alt+tab and see the preview of it and instead i need to install a third party app literally named alt+tab, and it doesn’t have clipboard like windows 11 with win+v shortcut. anyway what the most i love is a well integrated apple ecosystem like sidecar with ipad, how seamless to switch using airpods, and of course the airdrop that i can just send images from iphone to my document in macbook with 2 clicks
The things about apps not closing depends on the developers of the app, discord does this on windows too, you close the window, not the app. For me that isn’t a problem because I love shortcuts, even if the red cross closed the app properly I would still use them.
Scrolling can be weird, but when you do it on your phone it feels natural, I became used to it in no time.
I also didn’t like the thing where you can’t slide a window to the side and make it occupy half the screen, but I just have 3 Desktops, and it is so much better, the only thing that is worse is when you need to move a file from an app to another, but I can live with that. When I go back to windows I feel so constricted
Programs with that behavior on Windows generally have a checkbox for Minimize to Tray. It's far from the default behavior for most applications thought.
Mac OS has always made the distinction between closing and quitting. Even Office worked this way for the longest time even on Windows (because it began on the Mac). Adobe products are probably the most obvious ones that still work this way between both platforms. You can close all documents in Photoshop or InDesign or whatever but the app is still running until you quit.
really hate discord and other messaging app for that bs. I clicked close not minimize.
@@poggarzz Aren't messaging apps the most obvious things to just hide to the systray when you X off them?
@@TalesOfWar did take getting used to. still hate them for this behavior.
I've been getting a MacBook from my company for about 2 months. Switching from Windows to macOS was a little less intuitive than expected. Too intuitive in some places, like uninstalling. As a software developer, I had to look up where certain keys like [ ] or { } were. Or I didn't really know what HomeBrew or pip were. And the scrolling thing got me too. But overall, it was just small things for what I got. It is a really nice experience after 10+ years of Windows.
You're a software dev and you didn't know about `pip`?
File, Folder, Window, Program management and Gaming are all awful on MacOS everything else is fantastic. Use Windows, Mac and Linux everyday and have for years. You're right, for Mac, since 2020 things improved, dramatically.
Was forced to use Mac for 3 years of software development, I hope I never go back.
Another thing to point out is that since the m1 macs the UEFI bios is inside the soldered SSD chips, so if anything happens to the SSD you are left with an unbootable device - whereas you could've booted from usb/SATA before.
It is from what I've heard so far impossible (probably is possible but a lot of work) to recover the data from it and there's another huge hardware design flaw which permits high voltage from a shorted SSD to the CPU, bricking the entire system. These devices are anything but green, you cannot repair anything on them.
So if you edit and render a lot, consider your SSD wear and it's average lifetime (there are figures on the internet, the lower the capacity, the lower amount of years of wear it can resist so you must be extra careful with 500GB and below SSDs). Backup your data, don't believe what Apple PR says, they've never addressed blatant issues and always tried to skip responsibility for their KNOWN design flaws.
Honestly that applies to most other brands they all have weaknesses. I have owned a lot of different laptops. They all have their own issues. Looking at you dell and Lenovo
fried SSD is a thing that happened to me on a Lenovo Thinkpad, no recovery possible, but that's more of a SSD design problem, as I was told.
Ahh, a fellow rossman fan
In short, these issues are more bothersome on paper, and only if you care about these specifics.
Macbooks these days are really solid. I’ve used windows since win95 and macs are just better computers. Win is okay when u gotta do certain workflows.
who cares if all my data is on the cloud and backed up externally, y want the fastest experience
Haven't had issues with it yet. I usually change devices for other reasons way before the SSD lifetime is up.
I purchased my Mac in 2021 and I am so glad I did. I grew up with Windows computers and it was all I knew but I've been an iPhone fan user since 2013 so it was quite natural for me to lean to get a Mac.
Linux users watching this waiting for people to use their goofy ah distro
Linux and open source software in general actually improved a lot in recent years, so I think people will eventually switch to it.
PS: For the love of God distributions don't matter, they are just OS assembly. Chose DE first!
You already found one lol!
Treating operating systems like your favourite sports team is incredibly dumb.
If you've ever used an android phone, or an atm or most websites, you're already using Linux.
You are consumers of tech, not computer scientists and that's painfully obvious. Best stick with something easy designed for consumers
I’ve been on Mac for about 4 years. The Unix environment is the biggest plus as I can manage programs with homebrew and use vim for quick file edits. There’s tons of other workflows that are possible in the terminal too but that’s what I use
using vim is based.
- “It might be a start to a beautiful journey.”
- *Gets stuck in the Apple Ecosystem forever and after.*
God your content is so underrated... I loved your iPod video. Keep posting vids so youtube starts to recommend them!
Thanks alot my guy, appreciate you for watching and commenting ❤
The background music had me actively enjoying the video. Really fun and laid back energy to your content.
Keep it up.
I've been thinking about making the switch for years now. I settled on a Windows laptop because I was gaming a lot at the time (lockdown), but recently I stopped gaming as much, and for everything else it is just SO much more of a chore, and part of me wishes I'd just bitten the bullet
just got a macbook air myself after using windows since i was six. macos is a perfect mix of windows and ios for me. It has the ios level of polish and ease of use and the work potential of windows. really considering returning it and getting a pro version
Return it while you still can !
Only return it and upgrade if you know what your workload is, don't waste money
I switched to Mac in 2006. After this many years the one thing that STILL drives me nuts is the finder. The file explorer in Windows is SO much better. Other than that, I am good - I do my HTML/CSS/JS/Php development on a mac with Apache, MySQL and Php and all of that works really nicely. What are you using to edit your videos? Premiere?
Linux with vanilla Gnome laughing in the corner
Just to clarify a thing, there is seperate options for trackpad and the mouse for scrolling direction, so you can change it for the mouse and not for the trackpad and vice versa.
not working for me. if i change the direction for the trackpad, it changes for the mouse the same way. only with logi options it can overrule the mac setting so that my MX Masters scrolls standard and my trackpad naturally
What macOS and where...
that's not what he's complaining about. Changing the setting changes it for external mice with scroll wheels, and not in a good way. the fix is software like UnnaturalScrollWheels, which only reverses it for external mice with scroll wheels.
@@depression_isnt_real i do not want to hear the device but macOS - since all the macOS versions i have use will change trackpad and external REAL MOUSE WITH SCROLLSHEEL direction with the same toggle - name might be different if there is scroll wheel mouse connected but the toggle is linked
@@snowe.. Yeah, synced toggles in unrelated settings should never be done. Leave it to Apple.
I bought a macbook pro m2 for university last year. it's great for most things and especially for battery life. But there is one thing I didn't know: I started a course on internet, networks and computer security this year and we use many programs to analyze the network, virtual machines, etc. Guys it's a real nightmare, most of the programs are only for x86 CPUs and to make things work, the few that work, it's hell. If I had known this before I probably wouldn't have bought it. Guys if you want to study computer security or anything to do with the internet DO NOT buy a mac!!!
just run a windows vm like parallels, get the student discount. I think its worth it since the pros elsewhere are overwhelmingly worth it with the m chips
@@bnug242 I did It man, spent 50 bucks , but It didnt worked because the Windows OS on parallels for Mac M2 Is Windows ARM , while I needed Windows x86, which Is not supported by any virtualizator on Mac with chip M2. I'm not stupid, I tried everything
Yeah I mean for the performance the m1 mac was hard to beat for its time. Granted they were great for certain workflows. As a power user who does a little bit of everything, I cant see myself ever buying a mac. I understand the market but not being able to run x86 applications is a no go. Ive always said that if I could have the power efficiency of a Mac but the versatility of Windows, you would have a perfect laptop. Not even to mention that gaming on a Mac is probably one of the worst experiences Ive ever witnessed. Even for programmers it is annoying to try and find tools and apps that work on Mac to help your workflow. They are much more reliable but are very limited depending on what you are developing.
I recommend the Mac apps and tips video from snazzy labs. Also macOS has quite a few hidden features or controls that require the use of terminals, and some functionalities are indeed customizable.
The mouse scrolling isnt “backwards” you are just used to the other way of scrolling.
Agreed. It's like scrolling on an iPad. If you use a trackpad, it feels very natural. Going back to the old way just feels... weird now.
well for me, Ive been using windows for 20 years, since I was 8, and never a Mac as my personal device. And through this time have built and sold thousands of windows systems and still building them. Three months ago I took a break and started doing computer science at uni, and I decided to go for my first Mac laptop after what I've seen the apple silicone can do, so I went for the m2 MacBook pro. And oh man it is amazing, I don't think any of the windows laptops would match the performance and battery of this monster in my use case, have not tried it at the heavy work like 3D rendering and design (well gaming sucks). But yeah I might never return to windows laptops!
After a few years on windows I swapped back to Mac about the same time you did and I can definitely relate to a lot of what you talk about in this video, especially as I swap between having my Macbook docked and mobile daily. While I don't have such an issue with window snapping and I do actually use the green button, having to change my scroll direction every day certainly drives me a bit nuts. I also had to install software that got rid of MacOS's mouse acceleration as I much prefer having none after gaming on windows for years. Mac is generally much nicer to use but its unfortunate that there are a few quirks that Apple refuses to fix that forces one to go out of their way and download third party software.
You can remove the acceleration without an app. Its in Settings -> Mouse -> Advanced -> Turn the switch off
all the mac downsides I 100% agree with. I have multiple different small programs to fix the user experience. Also love how I left the mac on my dresser for a week unplugged and opened it and it turned on instantly.
05:48 it's to fully focus on the app, which is useful for some creatives and easily-distracted souls. Kind of nice feature, I think.
Great video and very good points! For the closing the window but the application is still running issue, I hit cmd + q and it'll close all windows and the application 😊 took me a while to figure out but has been a game changer ever since
Another way to close a window you can do:
cmd + w
If you want to close all windows but not necessarily quit it you do:
cmd + w + shift
@@jaerg91 No way!! I was looking for cmd + w + shift so long ... thanks
You use cmd + option + w to close all windows at once.
You made the video that describes my exact same computing journey. I’m a lifelong windows user (20+ yrs). Every Windows laptop I’ve ever bought had to be chained to a power supply because the battery never lasted more than a few hours. Performance always sucked compared to a desktop too, no matter how expensive I configured the CPU and RAM. When I found out that Intel CPUs always throttle their power in laptops, I was so mad. All the money I wasted over the years on faster and faster cpus, not knowing that throttling was happening 🤬
I bought the 13” M1 MacBook Pro after watching the amazing reviews on UA-cam. I initially only bought it for mobile use. But it was so awesome that I use it 90% of the time and my desktop PC just sits there powered off. After I finish migrating the last few bits and pieces from my desktop to Mac, I’m going to disassemble my AMD Ryzen tower that I built in 2020 and sell all of the parts on eBay. I’m not going back because Apple Notes, Mail, Reminders etc all fit perfectly into my life, and Office365 works great too.
One tip to see all the open windows of an application is to press the control + down arrow. You can also control + click the icon in the dock and choose the 'show all windows' option.
Drag and drop in Mac is what I think the most convenient thing about Mac. U can drag from email to web browser, from finder to email, plus without having to worry about worms, constant antivirus update reminders and less troubleshooting needed (like blue screen, etc).
you should worry, there are mac viruses you know, this ain't 2001 anymore :) you still have to not click weird shit
@@MultiNakir The only Mac virus I've ever personally seen in the last 16 years was an MS Word macro virus. So not even really a "Mac" virus, per se. Not saying the don't exist, but it's just not something Mac users really need to worry much about.
What’s worms bro? I fr don’t know
Mac viruses? LOL. they dont exist. name one@@MultiNakir
Worms? You shouldn't compare the latest MacOS to windows 95.
I moved over to Mac back in 2002... I never looked back and quite literally lived happily ever after
the end
The transition from PowerPC to x86 must have been epic?
@@arround1 unfortunately I still have to keep a 12" powerbook and iMac G4 to run some of my favorite old VST instruments and iTunes visualizers that didn't transition over... damn I wish the QEMU/UTM team would hurry up in getting the PPC emulator up to speed
As an ex windows that also switched to mac a few years back user I strongly recommend to start using the green button at the top left! Full screen applications and switching between them via 3 finger swipe to me is part of why macos is so great for productivity. You can also show two windows side by side in one fullscreen frame. And regarding the window snapping: I don't even miss it anymore, because I rarely use more than two windows side by side.
Hey. For closing programs, just press cmd+Q. And closing instances (or browser-tabs) cmd+W.
In contrast to windows MacOS has "basically" global shortcuts. While the windows culture created a wild-west of app design, MacOS is basically led by apples design guidelines.
So every text-editing app you will ever see has cmd+b for bold, cmd+f is always find, cmd+ctrl+f is always fullscreen (if the window supports fullscreen) etc.
Basically imagine the consistancy of "ctrl+c" on windows, but instead with everything on MacOS. It's ACTUALLY worth learning. It will improve productivity by a lot.
As for window management, it takes a while to get used to. I’d recommend to try stage manager, to put a lot of windows in full screen (you can three finger swipe between them) and to buy a magic trackpad instead of a mouse. It’s what the entire os is built around it seems like
Multiple apps in full screen and change them with the 3 finger is a game changer
@@ilcultodelcoccoacubetti6835 I call it "whoosh mode" fly around between different full screen apps or desktops
yeah it drives me nuts when everyone always complains about window management but doesn't actually try to use it as intended. I got my MacBook Air in 2021 and the built-in window management works like a dream. Though, I'm very much a trackpad person. I think I've plugged in a mouse like 5 times over 2 years.
A mouse is objectively superior to a trackpad, this is ridiculous.
@@patemathic Full screen windows are so stupid when you can tile them next to one another. Instead of constantly switching, just have them both at the same time on your screen bruh.
I found a workaround for the mouse scroll direction issue you referenced. There is a setting in the mouse software that changes the scroll direction without messing with the Apple trackpad direction. This won't apply to all mice, but mine had it as an option. I have the Logitech MX Master 3S, the mac specific model. It's a $100 mouse, but I think its worth it.
February 21 I needed a new laptop. Wanted to try something new and got the M1 air. To this day I’m still amazed how premium this feels, how snappy it runs, how long the battery lasts. My wife bought her windows laptop (a Lenovo something) around the same time and she’s getting issues here and there, MacBook still running like the first day. Within a year I switched my entire ecosystem to Apple and never regretted it. My windows pc is mostly off these days, when i actually play it’s on the steam deck.
Also M1 air for me as my first Mac. I switched for the performance but in hindsight, the build quality (speakers, trackpad, keyboard, microphone) etc were the much better upgrade. All while being ultra light weight. I never had a desk PC, always windows laptops but didn’t really move them around a lot because they were heavy and have bad battery. Now i work on the couch, in the train, living room… wherever i want. I don’t need chargers and mouse anymore and it’s super light and portable. Didn’t expect so much more quality of life from this…
I have tried to move to mac for my desktop (got a Mac Mini 1&GB RAM 1TB) but I can get used to MacOS. In addition to the issues you mentioned, the scaling for external monitors is much messier on MacOS than on Windows, also multitasking is definitely not as good. And I don't hate Windows, I am perfectly fine with it. The only reason was to avoid any fan noise. But what I did is moved my desktop to the other end of the room and run cables (bought something to hide them) so that I don't hear it any more (was not very noisy to beging with but I want total silence).
I use my iPad with sidecar as a second display and it is truly a gamechanger for working anywhere
Mac is good but be very careful with it. Apple repair shop's prices are outright extortion. I have a special travel bag with my Mac.
0:57 bro became Private from Penguins of Madagascar
😂
is that what all this blurred out stuff is/was? copyright strike and had to blur?
I unironically press the green button. I tend to use the fullscreen quite a lot, and I kinda like how it automatically puts the window in a new desktop; in Windows I could open more apps on the same page, but most of the time it would just minimize which basically is the same thing, but different. Also, the only reason I press it is because I'm too lazy to learn that one shortcut.
This is incredible, I've been through exactly the same journey! Didn't like Apple, got a Razer Blade 15", loved it at first, grew to be very displeased with it, sold my Windows PCs, and got an M1 MacBook Pro and I LOVE it.
When you spend a third of your life on a computer, this is absolutely life-changing. Ah, the quietness, smoothness, and lack of burnt fingers are incredible.
Great video!
I actually just did the exact same thing here at work, I have been on Windows my entire life. I imaged a 2019 Intel 16 inch i7 with 32GB of RAM. It feels really good, and the more I learn, the better it gets. My favorite part, is using a iPad for a separate screen! I keep either my Outlook or Teams open on a 12.9 inch iPad pro under my ultra wide monitor. It's actually really slick!
If Apple took the GPU a bit more seriously, I'd reconsider using a mac for 3D/simulation work. The OS definitely beats Windows, although I can't understand why they still haven't brought the Finder out of the Cold War era.
Liniiiix?
All the stuff you miss from Windows are the exact same things I miss too. Thankfully, I use rectangle (free) for window snapping , smooth scroll (paid) for fixing external mouse scrolling, and sensiblesidebuttons (free) to make the side buttons on my mouse work. It's annoying that I had to search online for third party applications that would work for me to fix these issues, but now that it's fixed it is mostly much smoother than windows.
My final gripe would be that finder changes views too much. I would much rather stick to one view every time I use Finder but I haven't gotten it to work consistently for me yet.
EDIT: Wanted to add that I do like how I can keep my MacBook on just by going into terminal and typing in caffeinate -d while in windows I had to search for a long and ugly powershell command.
For fixing the mouse, there’s a free alternative and it’s called DOS. it works like a dream. Hope this helps for anyone looking 😄
For fixing the mouse, there’s a free alternative and it’s called DOS. it works like a dream. Hope this helps for anyone looking 😄
are those windows apps or mac apps? because i don’t have any of those features on windows 10
@@imstupidbut why would you need that on windows?
@@Memecube window snapping doesn’t work for me, and my scroll wheel is extremely glitchy
It wasn’t Windows, you bought a gaming laptop but didn’t need the gaming….
Ngl windows laptops just don’t compete in efficiency at the moment tbh
@jamesramsey2400 It's not about Windows, its about x64 vs ARM chips.
The Snapdragon Elite X laptops (also running Windows) give Apple's M chips a run for their money and even lasts more on battery I've seen
@@Random131_Yh IK, but the windows laptops with arm chips have compatibility issues at the moment as they rush to compete, I use windows but I have to admit apple pulled of the switch to arm chips much better also apples displays are pretty much all much better as well @Random131_
yh but windows on arm is just much less usable companies are not really suporting it yet
He's doing creative tasks so he directly benefitted from a GPU and thicker chassis...........
You can have the best hardware in the world in your PC, but it's still Windows. People use Macs for the software, the hardware is secondary. I use both. I use Windows literally just to play games, everything else is done on my Macs. I much prefer using my now ancient 27" iMac and practically brand new M3 MacBook Pro to my Windows desktop, but the Windows desktop runs circles around them in terms of hardware power, especially in the GPU department. But then the 4080 in my PC is literally bigger than the MacBook Pro so you'd kind of hope it would be more beefy. I hate Windows, it just allows me access to the other software I enjoy using. They're tools at the end of the day, I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford both for the different tasks I require of them, so I have the best tools for a particular job you could say. I know not everyone has that option.
Software for macs? Ever heard of Linux-based non-proprietary distros?
@@xE92vD I don't use Linux and I won't use it for anything more than messing around with or some kind of dedicated server box because it doesn't run the software I use to make my living. And no, I'm not going to mess around to get it to work, I don't have the time or inclination, nor is it supported if something goes wrong.
I'm past the point of spending hours troubleshooting things with my tech, that's a young persons game or someone with lots of time on their hands (great if you have it, not having a go at those who are or do). I just want my stuff to work and get out fo the way so I can use it for what I need to do with it.
Linux will never be where Mac OS or Windows are because the same thing that makes it so powerful is what makes it so unappealing to the masses. We'd need to gather around a single distro for proper support for more commonly used tools, which would then make the point of Linux kind of redundant given the whole idea is you make it suit your needs and not the other way around.
Most developers don't even see the point in supporting the Mac as it's another codebase they need to target and support on top of Windows, never mind the many thousand flavours of Linux.
@@xE92vDthere's many mac software you can't run on ubuntu and others
@@famousmwofficial8046 I wonder why. Because Apple made it not possible to have compatibility with anything? That's not an argument. And also, 90% of all apps in macos can be found for windows as well, which can be run on Linux using WINE
@@xE92vD it's not apples fault stop being ignorant. Theres no money in commercial apps for the desktop on Ubuntu devs won't bother. Apple has exclusive software they won't release on Windows either but theres other devs too they won't support Ubuntu and derivatives and other Linux flavours are even worse off.
0:17 where Note 7
we don’t talk about that
On fire
chilling in the “sauna”
As a lifelong Windows user, the one thing that I can't seem to get my intuition to agree with is the single, unified title/menu bar for every application via Finder. I much prefer individual apps to have their own menu system assosicated with their individual application window rather than a single one that's constantly switching which program it controls. It makes it much more confusing to work with multiple applications and/or program windows at once.
Long time Mac User here.
10 months since this video. Any better? I know when I switched in 2003 it was life changing. Can’t imagine going back.
Arm or lunar lake
You bought 4 different samsung note phones, luckily you didn’t get a note 7 in your hands.
are you seriously saying that the razer was too heavy, i had an m1 macbook air and it was the heaviest piece of shit i have ever carried. now i have a hp laptop and its so much lighter.
In the new sequoia, there's snapping.
Also, the green button is to fullscreen try three-finger swiping, it helps me multitask.
The full screen green button is great. The Magic Touchpad gestures are totally needed with Mac. Swiping with 3 fingers lets you swipe between full-screen apps quickly. Finder isn't a good example to use it with. Windows 11 tried copying this whole feature with creating "multiple desktops". While you can't snap windows and that would be a good feature to add, you can just double click on the top bar of a window to auto-size it to the height of the screen. So you set the width of the window you want then just double click the top bar to expand it up/down to the corners.
MacOS is just so clean and easy to use. Any tiny quirks you mention here are fixable just like you would fixing things on Windows by adding third party software or changing around settings. Ultimately MacOS is just way more polished and now that there is Apple silicon working in tandem with the software and we now have the trifecta of software, hardware, and CPU/GPU all working together and optimized by Apple it's an insane performance beast that is going to exponentially get better at an alarming rate each year. The M3 series chips are mindboggling..... M3 Ultra/Max is already competing with the latest Intel 13th Gen top of the line CPUs, and the GPU is catching up the RTX 4000 series all with an INTEGRATED GPU.... no dedicated GPU!
Window management on MacOS works quite differently then it does in windows.
Firstly about needing to quit the app, the reason (probably) isn't ram usage, I believe its an interaction design they purposefully chose, my explanation is that they just want you to actively think about quitting an app seperately from closing an window, while this method might seem unnecessary at first I think it becomes very helpful when trying to multitask and manage many windows and apps, especially in conjunction with mission control.
And the thing it does when fullscreening an app is also explained by mission control, when you full screen an app it essentially moves into its own desktop, you can view all you desktop from mission control or move between them using a 4 finger swipe on the trackpad.
And lastly the lack of preview when hovering over app icons on the dock is also fixed by mission control, just go to mission control and you will see all of your windows. I like this better than the little floating preview on windows's taskbar because that can be quite clunky, I only find it easy enough to use when there are very few windows open, ideally 2, maybe upto 3.
Oh and rectangle gives you window snapping on mac for free.
> Firstly about needing to quit the app, the reason (probably) isnt ram usage, I believe its an interaction design they purposefully chose, my explanation is they just want you to actively think about quitting an app separately from closing an window, while this method might seem unnecessary I think it becomes very helpful when trying to multitask and manage many windows and apps, especially in conjunction with mission control.
It's a completely different app model than the one from Windows/Linux, and as someone who got a MacBook a year ago as first Apple computer too I immediately really liked it and really wish there was a Linux desktop that did this.
The important thing is that on macOS, an app can exist without a window because of the menu bar and because cmd+tab is per-app instead of per-window. If there are no windows, you can still focus the app using cmd+tab or clicking the app icon (though that usually creates a window if one doesn't exist) and use the menu bar or shortcuts (imo the coolest part!) to open a new document or whatever. This means that apps have a first-class way to stay open in the background. Mail.app does this really well for example, while it's open but all the windows are closed it still checks for new mail without needing some tray icon or background service, and you can just quit it to stop that.
The whole desktop workflow immediately clicked with me and I much prefer it over the Windows one (or rather Plasma desktop which I'm still using on my main Linux computer, which is pretty much the same). I do have Rectangle installed but recently have barely used it, mainly to center windows, but window snapping is still the one big thing that's lacking regardless. The split fullscreen window thing is just really limited and annoying because I don't think there's any keyboard shortcuts for it (I'd be all over it if they made it be able to tile windows arbitrarily like a tiling window manager on Linux though!)
@@2xsaiko Exactly! This is the thing people dont get, the macos desktop interface/experience is just logical and makes sense and thus allows for highly intuitive workflows like the one you mentioned. After learning how macos desktop works I realized how clunky things are on windows, and now i really want to switch. I suddenly became aware of how frustrated and annoyed I was everytime i did any form of window management on windows (Ironic).
Although, I dont think window sanpping is really usefull, i dont think windows are meant to be snapped like that as I never find them convinient that way, i much prefer freely floating windows. Id rather want windows snapping at the edge of the screen and not go over them. I think apple left out window snapping intentionally.
Overall I think apple does wonders with their User experience and interaction design and I dont think anybody even comes close.
yep. for me, I was just complaining about the way windows handles app closing to my friend the other day. apps like discord and steam stay open in the background when you close their windows but can’t be told to close by using their taskbar icon. having to use the tray, especially when the behavior of different apps isn’t standardized feels incredibly clunky. (for example discord only shows up in the tray when it is focused, so closing it fully requires opening a window, going to the tray, then quitting from there instead of using the taskbar icon.) on macOS, the distinction between closing windows and closing apps is intuitive and easy to work with.
as for multitasking, I’m so used to navigating between full screen apps using gestures that I rarely find myself using the desktop unless I’m using something like finder or terminal. something like firefox or spotify is pretty much always going to be in its own space. when I have spacial reasoning for switching between applications using gestures, it makes it really natural to get where I want to be. something like command tab is nice to have, but it isn’t immediately obvious how the applications will be ordered and so requires visual feedback before you know how many times to press it. when using the 3 finger swipe to get between spaces, I know how I ordered things and where I am right now, so I know what motions I’ll be performing before I even make my first input.
What most people don't realize is that on windows many apps will remain open despite disappearing from the taskbar. Chrome, Steam, Adobe apps all do this nonsense. MacOS at least tells you hey this still exists in memory/background. I used to be a huge windows fanboy and worked at Google providing Windows/IT support. They gave me a Mac temporarily, I fell in love and became an iOS engineer years later.
Thanks!
Man, you forget about press for previewing files.
It's one neat and powerful feature on Mac
Prior to the Arm chips, the dells and razors etc were much closer to the mac in terms of performance, battery etc. But that M1 pro and the successors really changed the game. My work M1 pro 14" machines are insane and id never want to go back for a laptop. For dev work, even the M2 and 3 seem redundant, its going to be a long time before an upgrade will feel necesary, and i bet these hold great value. Im not a huge fan of MacOS still, but i've learned to cope. I hate the window management particularly.
Macs have always had better battery life even before they moved to Apple Silicon. Mac OS is just better that resource and power management than Windows is. I know this because I've run Windows natively in Boot Camp on multiple Intel Macs and see how on the exact same hardware one performs consistently better than the other. Even to the point where you actually notice the tiny Bluetooth lag of your keyboard and mouse when in Windows compared to Mac OS because Windows to this very day still has a shitty ass non-full stack implementation of the standard. This is why many wireless mice and keyboards still come with their own goddamn dongle which uses that manufacturers own specific take on the thing.
I bought a MacBook Air years ago, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to use and how seamlessly it integrated with my iPhone. Despite not Being able to customize some things to the degree I’d like and feeling like there was less flexibility, I still enjoyed the experience and I could see the appeal. I haven’t bought an apple product since, not even another iPhone until this week where I’ve just bought an iPad and I’m once again reminded of how smooth the experience is on Apple products. I’m older now and have less time to tinker and play around, so I want stuff to just work, so I’m debating about getting back in to apple devices again. But I’m sure I’ll find some not so common things that I can’t do or will have to pay a high fee or expensive subscription to fix if I do. Also not being able to play my steam library on my laptop would suck.
While there are issus out there, I'm running my Macbook 14 on only free software which took almost no time to download or set up, and it's running smooth as butter.
Get the following to be able to customize your Mac like a Windows:
Linearmouse - Make your third party mouse have natural scrolling, or remove mouse acceleration
Rectangle - To snap your windows efficiently
And that's essentially all annoyances that comes with Mac being a experienced Windows fanatic.
Games will come with time now that Apple has added support for game devs to use, but there are no great ones out there at the moment except for a few (which still puts out my gaming thirst on the weekend if I have any, like No Mans Sky, Hearthstone, CSGO, and a few other)
Its interesting because macOS in many cases is actually far more customizable then windows but in other cases I feel apple stubbornly dragged their heels (the natural scrolling issue is one)
I guess this is the tradeoff for a safer and better OS. I'm sure they have their reasons to why they haven't updated this yet, unfortunately.@@hajjdawood
A tip on the green button. That is the full screen button. You can quickly swap between your full screen windows by holding the control button and the arrow keys: you can also do this by swiping right or left with 4 fingers (could be 3 tho) on the trackpad. You can also create virtual desktops. You can toggle through all of these the same way. It allows for many apps and desktops to be open at the same time allowing for a lot of flexibility. I love it, and use this feature on windows as well (they came to implement this feature in windows 10).
It's a productivity game-changer. With a laptop, to get any real work done you always have to be conscious about charging. So you're always in that "I'll do it when I get back to the office / home mode"
For me I run various apps in Docker, VS Code, Outlook, MS Office all day long without plugging in. :) It's way worth the weird quirks & and Stage Manager has helped a lot..
Who the hell uses VsCode AND MsOffice as apps