Lifetime Mac User Tries Windows 11
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Windows 11 is now out in beta with a redesign that many people are saying resembles macOS. With new animations, wallpapers, icons, widgets, and even a centered task bar, is the Windows 11 redesign enough to win over this lifelong macOS user, or does this fresh coat of paint only hide the inherent problems of Windows?
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What do you think of Windows 11? Also would you like more Windows content in the future? Let me know.
Mac rules pc for tools Except gaming pcs
i for one don't care about windows
@@flamewater6639 No it doesn't brotha. LOL....
Not at the expense of Mac videos, but hey, its a slow news cycle in the Apple world, so why not? Besides, Windows still rules the games scene, at least for now, so yeah.
For a competent screen recorder i use "oCam" which is pretty decent. Other than a missing built-in screen recorder I'd say Windows 11 is an interesting OS. I still want to replace my old HP with a Mac though, especially since my old HP (a 4th gen Core i7 model) isn't compatible with Windows 11.
You can tell he’s a Mac user because he didn’t maximize any of the app windows 😂
I'm a Mac user and I found the default 'full screen' instead of maximise anoying :). Many Mac users do not seem to know that when you press the option key the full-screen button becomes a maximise button. But to be honest, especially on the large displays these day I rarely maximise applications.
@@wpoeyer I didn't know this feature even existed on Mac. I've used macbook for two years already, I think. This is... let's say, not clear. Although on Windows I don't maximize all windows as well.
@@OmegaEnvych I've been on Mac since 2004 and I didn't know about that lol..
@@wpoeyer wow learnt a new thing today, didn't know this even though I've been using Mac since 2010. Thank you!
When I use a Mac, I always maximise all windows… I feel like I’m the only one that does that lol
I’ve been using Macs for about 10 years now, but earlier I used Windows. And to this day I feel that Windows is at least 80% better than macOS. So many softwares available for Windows as compared to Mac is one of the biggest pluses for it. I know the issues with windows too (before someone say anything about it to me).
So why using Mac if Windows is 80% Better?
@@sayednab the hardware. till date I can't find anything better than a MacBook, for example the trackpad.
@@DeepakBhakoo install windows through bootcamp. I agree on the hardware side. The laptop market is crap on Windows if you want the best all-rounder.
@@DeepakBhakoo is that the only deal breaker for window to you? hmmm, weird take.
@@osiris7945 we are talking just about the OS. Weird??!! Come on. Be serious
I don’t understand how widgets are attributed to Android. Both Windows AND Apple had “widgets” BEFORE Android. I’ve even seen big reviewers like MKBHD make this mistake. This is what most critics of Apple users forget, MOST of us came from Windows machines. The highly customizable, bloated, easily infected, buggy experience with almost zero customer service or satisfaction is very familiar. For people looking to pick up their machine and get straight into the fun or productive work without tinkering, Apple was a godsend.
Well said. That pretty much sums up the whole experience for me.
@Xavier Breath tl;dr. It was clear this was going to be a delusional rant. How could any sane person believe billions of people simply fell for slick marketing? If you don’t think Apple products are good enough, don’t buy any. Not that complicated.
@@sharonb.9128 Get rekt, lmaoooooo
Bruhh. Apple and Windows had widgets on Desktop which most of the people didn’t even cared to use as widgets on desktops are mostly useless. While Android was first to have widgets on mobile which people actually cared to use.
Android gets credited with the initiation of widgets for PHONES.
The control panel still looks older but it is the best part of Windows!
I like the design of Windows 11. Miss having the Start button on the left side but you could move it in settings so it’s not a huge deal. I really like how Windows manages application windows for multitasking more then MacOS.
As a relatively new Mac user, Windows is years ahead in task management. Its almost as if Apple is stuck in the 80s with the amount of keyboard shortcuts one needs in a GUI.
Only real fans are too early that they have to watch in 1080p - best regards from Germany🙏🏻😁 sind hier eigentlich noch andere Deutsche Zuschauer?
Haha thank you 🙏
Nicht so viele haha.
Ja
Ja, hier noch einer.
Ja hier
Widgets are partially new in Windows 11, because in Windows 8 they removed them, and then later in Windows 10 recently there was an update where they added widgets back
I use Windows because I’m paid too. I use MacOS because I choose too. I use Linux because I can. 🍏🐧
quirky
The Windows snap feature was the best feature since the taskbar. I personally used Windows from 95 to XP until I bought an iMac G4 in 2003. It’s interesting for me for occasionally having to use Windows at work on work computers and like the snap feature and window preview feature in the taskbar.
Microsoft is trying to switch to new settings app rather the using legacy settings app , but the transition will be slow , microsoft says that if you use windows normally you will not see any legacy settings app , but if you
try to dig into settings you will come across some legacy settings .
Hello, ah yes a Windows review, gonna watch it now
Thanks!
I’d love to see more deep dives into Windows. Let’s see more videos of your experience and share what you learned. Let’s go on a journey.
Dude, I'm a mac user too but did you really think that large squared menu icons in the start menu took a lot of space. I mean look at the dashboard on your mac. It's even larger.
You can just use quicktime to record screen, same as on a mac I believe
your first two points are windows hello and wallpapers
exhausting video
I love the "scratch the paint" metaphor... You can "scratch the paint" all the way to Windows XP look and feel in certain areas...
Well, one has to keep in mind that Windows grew as something in the middle between Linux and Mac in respect to the target audience. Also one should acknowledge how much the software developer (programmers) community changed during the last two decades. 20 and more years ago it was almost like the programmers (of the time) were primary audience. While this is a bit incorrect it just looked that way - sometimes there were features for which you can almost say - they are implemented that way because otherwise we will look stupid for some colleagues or something overused terribly because "why not" - so typical for the 90-s. Basically Windows has a long history that makes it important not only to keep backwards compatibility with software, but also with the UX/UI and sometimes both - like the tray icons that are still supported by software compiled 25 years ago - these things make changes harder. Macs on the other hand had the "designer" kind as primary concern and were always ready to ditch all the software they supported before as long as the major set of tools used by the primary target group would be available. You can see today some of the Windows difficulties starting to show up for Apple too - the success of the iPhone and later the iPad are already putting Apple in the complicated situation where they want to integrate everything together, but it cannot be done as seamlessly as they (or anybody for that matter) would want. Imagine this with longer history of success on one of the platforms and you start to understand the weird multiple attempts to change everything and why they fail one after the other. Windows users vary from an audience similar to the main Mac audience to users who act in very similar manner to the hard core Linux/Unix bunch - you simply cannot make them all happy, you can't even make part of them happy without annoying another. And because I stopped at the point where the author talks about the desktops - there was a feature "like that" from NT.4 (may be even earlier - I am not sure), but it was primarily concerned with the desktop isolation - multiple desktops isolated almost like different machines. Blow that is the so called window station and they are still in use today, but they have nothing to do with the multiple desktops we see in Windows 10/11 - they are provided in a very funny way through the desktop window manager that hides/shows windows depending on the selected desktop. So, in a nutshell - the first one was concentrated on providing deep OS features and not so much on the visual usage the second looks, frankly weird, but enables visual presentation and OS level deep impact. The times changed , the users changed and to appreciate and understand an OS one has to understand this. Nowadays Apple made us call OS not the OS, but the visual shell, Windows on the other hand may be not so crazy like Linux, but is still more concerned about the OS meaning the operating system and not with the "OS" as visual polishing term for the shell and not the OS. So, it is something in the middle which is well balanced sometimes and not so well balanced in some versions. The actual most influential features and UX are still from Windows 95 and most attempts to replace/remove them are usually awkward and changing them or developing new ones is not a trivial task if you have in mind the long term compatibility that needs to be kept and a number of other factors. In the end Mac users will not like some things which are unimportant for people like me and sometimes to make them like windows more, Microsoft will literally enrage people like me. I still think that trying to make the end users more educated about the inner workings of the OS (not the "OS") is better long term strategy, what Apple does makes the ecosystem more closed and hard to trust for programmers who seek long term compatibility, but each of these approaches has its good and dark sides, so if we, the users, can keep our heads cool and avoid marking this or that OS or version of it as "unacceptable" for something in the UX, this will target any OS development in more rational direction, because it will not automatically make the "sale to the uneducated end user" the critical factor for the companies that make the software.
he forgot OBS (and Microsoft removed widgets in I believe between windows 8,8,1 and 10)
7:24 OBS!!!! ITS FREE AND HAS A REALLY GREAT FEATURE SET
Really... ? Billions of dollars of investments, decades old organizations, thousand dollars price tag, fundamentally different approaches to user experience or product philosophy and....
and you want to talk about wallpaper ?
The fucking wallpaper!!!?
Literally. Who dafaq cares about wallpaper? We all change them anyways if we dont like default ones.
Screen recorder work around - open Microsoft PowerPoint (2013 and later), click on the Insert tab, on the far right, it should say "Screen Recording", click on that. It will allow you to choose which area of your screen you want to record, and if you want to record with or without sound. Once done recording, need to save video to your computer (right click on video and save it). Hope that helps. But yeah, Windows needs to add a built-in screen recorder...
File Explorer - If you open up File Explorer, top left is called “quick access”. You can save your most used folders under "quick access" (Right click on a folder in File Explorer and go to "Pin to Quick Access".). If you right click on file explorer on the task bar, those most used folders show up. Quite handy. [Question - is this available on a Mac?]
I appreciate you doing a video on this topic, as I have one foot in Windows and the other in MacOS. Your experience is helpful. Blessings on your day.
This guy looks awesome
There's like trillion apps for Windows that you can use since like 80s. It's up to you to find what right apps. If it was up to me, I'd leave the Windows with very few basic apps like Calculator and Notepad, and super light bare minimum web browser. And let the users do user stuff.
24:45 it does seem to be older however i think they might still be changing that
You see he is fan boy pointing with double fingers , geeez
there is a default recording system just press on windows icon + G
7:07 It does have an in-built screen recorder which is Xbox Game Bar. But the problem is that it can record only programs like some sort of games or your browser. You cannot record the desktop or file explorer but its definitely better than other 3rd party software's where you might have fps drops while recording on a low spec pc.
I do think that centering the icons in the task bar is a good move but I don't like that the time/date and quick access icons are still over to the right. Having nothing on the left makes it visually unappealing to me. If I had designed it I would have split them up and put the quick access icons on the left of the task bar and the time/date can stay on the right. I think that would be more balanced and a better use of space than just leaving the left entirely blank.
You can use the xbox game bar to screen record, windows + G
Lmao I just heard you say don't comment this XD
"Reccomended" in Windows 11 is actually files you last visited. Microsoft should have named it differently
i have both Mac & Windows 11 & i like them both
First thing I did with 11 was put that damn start button back where it belongs. Bottom left.
Windows 11 comes with xbox gamebar and gamebar has a screen recorder
best part Windows 11 wants be a brother to Apple as he even said it looks like a macbook and i just found out a day ago PC i using was not windows itself is was Mac OS X is running
only you waste even more for windows than Macbook can do itself
if the Keys there means they can cut of the key make it no longer active so we pay more for Watermark like we was using free cam software
Half of the complaints I heard were just because you didn't know how to use the operating system..?
Sorry, but your video is very unprofessional. I'm a full time Linux user, I'm not a fan of Windows or Microsoft, but you are judging a beta-release software and compared it to MacOS. That is an unfair comparison.
OBS for screen recording. Arguably better than screen recording in MacOS since you can add instant audio and change the quality of the recording.
The Samsung Galaxy Book Series has got a native screen recorder with more functions than any other screen recorder but other windows laptops don't offer one as far as I know
The mac fanboy is strong with this one ...
For most non Mac computers you get a screen recorder in your gpu software or you can just pay for a good screen recorder.
The Xbox game bar lets me record my whole screen so idk why it’s different for you. I am a Mac user but I also do have a Microsoft Surface that I have screen captured on before.
@GregsGadgets the split-screen animation is still incomplete. On Windows 10 it's real-time. On the screen recording, windows could really use one.
Hit win+G for screen recorder
7:47 it doesn't record dwm.
You should try OBS it’s a open source awesome screen recorder for mac windows and Linux
multi desktop was in windows since windows 8...
Greg the screen recorder on Mac is also bad. It needs workarounds to record sound at the same time. So just use obs. Also iOS screen recorder needs some enabling and it’s not able to capture sound from calls and meetings. You can’t demand a good recorder bundled with the os yet. Also what about this split screen you showed in Mac OS? I have only found split screen in full screen in Mac that the top bar is not showing while the windows has the snap that is amazing and you need another app in Mac to do that type of thing
As someone who used an Apple II then a Mac from inception until the late 90s then Windows (with Solaris / Linux and NeXT thrown in at times) including Windows 11 beta I'm loving BigSur on the M1 Air I picked up a couple of months ago. Yes I'm running WSL2 and Kali on my PC but having the BSD underpinnings where I can open up a terminal for some basic tasks and then the stability on Big Sur is simply fantastic. I've rebooted my Air once since I got it... once.
In regards to Windows 11 I like it better than Windows 10, but if things continue as is it's going to be a nightmare upgrade for many users... which oddly enough will be just about the same time Apple releases Monterey and the new M1X Macs shortly followed by the new Air models early next year. Sure we can all believe it was supply chain issues that pushed back the new MBP release but was it? or is it Apple preparing a marketing push for all those potentially frustrated Windows users in late 2021 early 2022. ;)
He be like: HEY EVERONE!!!! WINNDOWSS DONT HAVE SCREEN RECORD.... like tf ... mac os don't have lot of things...
it has a xbox game bar which is a screen recorder
The wallpaper is a curtain. Something related to a window. 😂
The aesthetics seem more polished. (Wallpaper - want to argue about that wretched red/orange/yellow abortion that’s the default on Big Sewer? Monterey isn’t quite as nasty, but…) It’s a small thing, but I wish MacOS were more “Windows-like” when it comes to setting up split screen with apps. The real questions for me would be more about the long term and day to day. Patching - does Windows still drop a bunch of them every week, and require you to log out as user, log back in as admin, install the patch(es), reboot and log back in as user? That was a lot of fun. Lastly, after you’ve used the install heavily for a year or two, how much do you want to do a fresh install because the registry has become such a fouled up mess?
OBS is your goto window/screen recorder for Windows OS. I've been using it from last 3-4 years at least and it has yet to disappoint me. Also its completely free. So, you can try it.
What laptop he is using for windows?
Windows 11 says goodbye to mac bootcamp
The simple truth is all of my Windows computers go belly up after a few years.
Hard to believe it but my 2011 MacBook Air is still working. Slow, but working.
He could've used OBS though
Well haven't you ever heard of OBS?
I just love Windows 10 because the taskbar powerful enough than windows 11. The center layout of icons isn't really centered, the right corner filled with clock, etc.
Thanks for the video really good.. Did make me laugh near the beginning about the Wallpaper where you said. "Windows Wallpaper, who wants to be reminded that they are using Windows" Something ALL Apple Fans love to do (me included) with that partly eaten apple on their products :-)
I have been using Windows from Windows NT onwards and have been on OSX since Vista.
I have NEVER used a screen recorder, although I sit in front of the monitor for 8-10 hours a day ;-)
And that's why they keep the old programs in the deep the same... Coz if they change everything, the old apps wouldn't run. Knowing computers that's a genius move. Marcos.... There's a way to run old apps but it's a plus you gotta do which it sucks
you can record your screen through PowerPoint! love your vids!
Hey Greg just get urself a laptop that runs win 11 and has a built in geforce gpu in it next time. This will allow u to record any thing on ur screen with preinstalled shadow play. It comes preinstalled with the needed nvidia gpu drivers
do control + windows key + left and right arrow keys to switch between desktops
to record screen just use power point
I just want the windows resizing on macos and nothinf else.
Everyone on Windows and Linux uses OBS for screen recording and streaming alike...
1. There are apps that do screen recording with no limits. Just download OBS.
2. WTF? Critiquing an OS based on the bounciness of the animations? Try Android 12... you will love the bounce.
3. The multiple desktops is a feature since Windows 10 was released. Right about the same time Apple introduced it.
4. Please stop reacting to CLEAR bugs from the beta. As you said... IT IS A BETA, far from the oficial release. Of course, the animations will be smooth, and the snapping windows will work just fine.
if you have a gpu supports directx 12 ultimate you can record whole screen
Your rambling about wall paper for a comparison of operating systems. Four minutes in and I”m out. I use both systems. I was looking for and insight and got a waste of time.
it does record its windows button + G
12:16 you can change it to show the thumbnail instead of the icon as well😉
The X-Box Game Bar was able to record editing in premier and youtube and so on.
Maybe that has changed though.
OBS Studio and VLC Media Player :)
First thing to understand about Windows: ALL programs worth having are third party. Windows is sold as an OS, not an all-in-one prepackaged experience with a controlled app store like Apple is. No one uses the Windows store.
An Apple enthusiast tries out Windows? This should be interesting.
13:30 it would be weird if u scrolling through mouse and it bounces. and go in settings it bounce. It bounces in my android tho. and in many apps in windows.
Not sure about Windows 11, but Windows 10 had a built in Screen Recorder, press Win+G, then Choose the record button, its utilising the game bar but it was built into Windows 10, according to this its in Windows 11 too - www.digitaltrends.com/how-to/how-to-record-your-screen-windows-11/
Yeah it still works in win 11 for me
thats a beta version take it lightly
It is a good operating system if you have to do anything on the computer. Like the macbookpro it also can be used for tracking facebook at the coffee shop
Cool shirt bro! Kameha meha...
Layouts for multitasking
6 years later in the Apple ecosystem and depressed Microsoft Office will not release the same features for Mac users window users have access to…
Who still uses Microsoft Office? I use Google Docs/Sheets/Slides for everything.
high lvl cultist right there. leeroy jenkins where are you!!??
7:27
Use obs💀
Using Mac & then Windows can be a little pain :) ... like using an Android phone & going yo iPhone ... can be another pain :) that`s very normal feels BUT doesn't means Android or Windows are bad or not good ... it is matter different flavor and sometime it is good to try things out :):):)
I’m with you, I like the wallpaper as well.
Windows 11 is a nice update if it was a yearly update and not over 5 years.... and tpms suck
16:00 in final relese its much better and smooth
Thanks for the vid. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I hate windows snapping to half-screen or full screen. I find it annoying because it is way too easy to do it by accident. I know other folks who love it so I guess we each have our favorite or least favorite features. On another topic, is ARM Win11 available yet and do you plan to try it out under Parallels on a MacBook, or better on an iMac? Just curious.
Funny try lol I had windows 10 for a while but I’ll never go back after I came into the enjoyment of mac
Windows users most of them including me don't give a damn about animation.. lol coz it eats your CPU. Believe it or not if your turn it off, the PC runs faster. No miracles on an weak machine but it's a huge difference!. I just upgraded to win 11 and let me tell you... I loved it. Coz windows was always better at comparability. All my files and apps works perfectly on win 11 when I was using win 10 hell they have even XP software that still runs!
Surprised you're not wearing Airpods. Seems to me that Apple fans leave them in 24/7 even when they're asleep.
U know obs exist right?
this video just proves that mac users are way behind .....have a HP PROBOOK and been using the touchscreen on my laptop for a while
And I just switched to Mac.
If you are clever, you will feel the pain for only a month, otherwise it will be months, If you lack patience and not too bright, you will give up
6:43 Try OBS
It is beta right ... you know this though I hope
Absolutely correct about the screen recorder. But as a cross-platform user, OBS is super powerful on both platforms and performs even better on windows than it does on macOS, so that’s my go-to for screen rec on windows and it takes 2 seconds to download and set up.
Windows has a screen recorder
press win+g then you can record your screen from there
Snipping Tool has a function to record whatever part of the screen.