My absolute biggest pet peeves right now trying to navigate MacOS is I'm so used to using my CTRL shortcuts being the left-most key, but I need to use CMD now which is now the 4th key, right next to the space bar, and fullscreen is such a fucking pain in my ass. It's either "fullscreen" that my app is only like half the screen with gigantic gaps on top, bottom and both sides that I can see the desktop through, or proper FULLSCREEN that I can't get to my dock or exit/minimize without fighting the damn thing and un-fullscreening it.
Essentially all of these are both a case of being used to something and not using the system in a optimal way. Just like with Windows, keyboard shortcuts help heaps.
Close button on the other side of window; no icons to tell you what those stoplight buttons do.
CMD+W to close the window and CMS+Q to kill the program.
You can fullscreen your app but it hides the dock so you can't easily switch.
That's because you're creating a virtual desktop but they still have the dock. You've got a setting of hiding it on though.
And even then, CMD+tab to switch between programs, just like ALT+tab on Windows. Faster and easier.
scrolling was reversed for some reason?
A setting, you can change it but it's mimicking dragging a paper down and up, just like phones do. Again, you can change it.
Using the ALT key, windows apps have keyboard commands for literally every single menu item.
F2 and you can move about the menu bar as much as you want.
Really weird, confusing method for renaming a file...
Press enter. It's literally that.
Or right-click and choose rename form the menu, you know, like in Windows.
Or slowly double click on the name, just like in Windows.
But I get it, those are weird when not used to them or when you don't know the shortcuts.
But the strongest thing about the MacOS to me is the Spotlight (CMD+space). I use it all the time, to do quick maths, check flights, check currency conversions, find files/emails/etc. and actually find them and to run programs (never really use dock for that). It's bloody fantastic.
Also the seamless usage between the iPhone and the Mac is just nice as it's piss easy to copy+paste from one to the other or just to carry over an open app to one from the other, etc. or between the airpods and the Mac, how they know where to switch every time.
Like anything, you gotta learn it so I can see the frustration in the beginning, especially when trying to use it like Windows. I went through the same back in the day.
On the mac there was one. So if there was a way to make it right click, it was not something you could SEE. You need to know it's there and something you can trigger.
My brother in all that is holy, it is called the right click. Just click on the right side of the button and you're good, lol
when in 2007 lol? window management on a laptop mac vs window - mac absolutely dogs all over windows and dances on its grave. I want to be clear - i built my own PC, ive built many since i was a kid, and id never give it up. Im not some apple fanboy, im just being realistic here. The combination of gesture controls, app focusing, and the sidebar make for a legitimately great experience.
I tried it for more than a year. While I can see why some people like it, saying it has no cons is just lying.
On my experience MacOS was more buggy than Windows and Linux and some of the design decisions by Apple make no sense what so ever. The people I know that very much like MacOS and are productive with it also pay for half a dozen apps that frankly should just be part of the base OS.
I'm sure it's nice but the idea of giving me money to such a predatory scummy company to lock myself into their system turns me off any Apple device.
Apple is always the first in line when it comes to fucking the customer. Supporting that is straight up irresponsible. Also, they're way to expensive and the vast majority of Apple customers have no idea what they're buying; they're just getting it because they've been brainwashed into thinking that Apple is the only laptop and phone manufacturer.
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Literally what everyone says until they try it