Windows User Switches to MacOS

So I've been using this new MacBook Pro M3

for about a week now, and as someone who's

used Windows for basically his whole life

and is quite new to using macOS, I thought

I'd make a video talking about why I think

macOS kind of sucks compared to Windows

and some of the things I'm really missing

from Windows. But before I get into the

reasons why it sucks, I'll tell you the

reasons why it's actually good and the

things I like about it more than Windows.

So first of all, I like it when you close

the laptop and then reopen it, everything

is just how you left it. You could just

carry on going how you left it. And the

sleep mode on it is actually really good

because you just put it to sleep, it goes

into like sleep mode, and you wake it and

everything's just back to normal how you

left it. With Windows, sleep mode kind of

sucks. Like, like I put it into sleep mode

and then it keeps waking itself up, and

then the only thing I can do is shut down

the whole computer, and then the next

morning I have to restart it. And then

open everything back up again. But with

macOS, I can just close it and then come

back the next day and resume from where I

left off, and everything is open and ready

to go. I don't need to like reopen

everything. So that's really nice and

fluid. But unfortunately, that's kind of

where the good things end and the bad

things begin. There's loads of things from

Windows that I just really miss using,

and there's certain things about the macOS

that I just can't seem to get used to. So

first of all, the dock. The dock is fine.

It's kind of like the Windows taskbar.

It's got icons on it. Has my programs. I

click on it, it opens. But that's when it

becomes bad, because on the Windows

taskbar, if I click on the icon, it will

open it, but then if I click on the icon

again, it will minimize it. But on macOS,

you've got to click on the icon, and then

to minimize it, you've got to go all the

way to the top left and press the yellow

minimize button, which is kind of

annoying. I like it on Windows when, for

example, I'm checking Discord to see if

there's anything to reply to. I just click

on the Discord icon And then I see there's

nothing on there and I just click it again

and it minimizes. But on Mac, I've got to

click on it and then move my mouse all the

way to the top left. I know it sounds like

I'm whinging about nothing really. It's

just like, oh, you'll move your mouse up

to the top left to minimize it. It's just,

it takes like a couple seconds to do that

process and it's just slowing down my

entire workflow. Maybe there's a command

somewhere here to minimize it, but I

haven't figured out what the command is

yet. Secondly, I don't like the green

button, the maximize button, or in Windows

it would have been the little square icon

that maximizes the app to take up all of

the screen space. Now the problem is with

it— I'll do it now— you press it and then

the dock disappears, and also the top menu

bar thing disappears as well. And if I'm

in full-screen mode, okay, it looks great.

I'm in full-screen mode. But now let's say

I want to look on Discord. How do I get to

Discord now? I'll pull down the dock and

then I click on Discord and And then it

brings up Discord, but then it makes the

thing I just made fullscreen disappear.

So I want the Discord window over the

fullscreen thing, but you can't seem to do

that when you have something fullscreen.

You can't have other things on top of it

like on Windows. I'd have it maximized and

then go down to the taskbar, press

Discord, and Discord will just pop up over

the fullscreened application. I really

miss being able to do that. And now to get

back to the thing I was opening on

fullscreen, How do I get back to that? I

click on the, on the dock to reopen it,

and then it brings it back into full

screen, and then Discord disappears. It's

kind of annoying. Look, I'll show you.

For example, I want to go into my video

editor here, which is not maximized. So

click on the green button to make it full

screen, and this one actually doesn't do

full screen for some reason. That's weird.

Okay, so I go into OBS. This is full

screen. So that's not full screen, but now

this is full screen. But then to bring up

other stuff, you've got to like long drag

down onto the bottom to get the dock to

show up again. Press Discord, but then it,

it disappears the full screen thing and

switches back to the other thing. I don't

know how to get this to go over the full

screen. You've got to bring it up. It

won't let me bring it into the full screen

space. It creates these things called

spacers at the top And you gotta use the

trackpad to switch between the 2 spaces,

which is annoying because I'm trying to

use a mouse, not the trackpad. So you got

the spaces at the top and you can access

them by dragging

3 fingers up, and then you got the spaces

at the top here. So this is full screen.

It doesn't really function the same way

Windows full screen works. In Windows,

you can maximize it and it will take up

all the screen, and then you can have

other things on top of it as well instead

of like creating a separate virtual space,

which is— I don't like using these

separate virtual spaces. I like it to be

all in one area, and then I just maximize

and minimize apps as I want to use it.

But I don't have to do that on Mac, so the

only best option is to have it kind of

full screen but not full screen. But

there's no button to do that. You have to

like manually resize the window yourself

like this so it takes up all the screen

like that, and make sure it's maximized

there, make sure it's maximized down

there. And it's just kind of frustrating.

There's no button that automatically snaps

snaps it into place. Also, split screen is

kind of annoying as well. So for example,

I want OBS on the left and I want my

editing app on the right. You have to hold

down the green button and then press this

tile on the left toggle, and then you

choose another app. Well, some apps are

not available in split view. Okay, so the

editing app is not available in split

view, so What is available?

Nothing is available.

Okay, maybe Safari is available. So I put

this into the right screen and then

I can't get the editing app on the left

screen as well. So yeah, this split-screen

thing is just really frustrating. On

Windows, you can put anything into

split-screen just by holding the top bar

and then dragging it and then moving it to

the left and it automatically snaps into

place. On the place you've dragged

it to, or you put it to the top and it

automatically maximizes it to make it into

the whole screen. On Mac, it doesn't have

that kind of snapping and snipping kind of

function. And I'll also show you what I

mean by the dock being irritating. So

you've got the dock down here. Let's say I

want to open Safari. So I've opened it,

and now if I click it again, nothing

happens. If this was Windows, if I click

it again, it will minimize it, which was

really useful. To minimize it, go up here,

press the yellow button. Now it's

minimized, and I've got 2 Safaris open,

the one I minimized just now and this one.

On Windows, if you hovered over the icon,

it will show you which things are open,

like 2 little windows will pop up to show

you the different windows are open. But

this one, you gotta hold down left-click

and then it will show the different

windows that are open on this little menu

as like a text menu, and then you click on

it to choose it like that. It's kind of

annoying. Slow, hold down left-click,

release, and then you can choose which

windows open. It'd be better if when you

hover over it, it would show you like 2

little tiles like Windows does. And then

to— yeah, you can then see the 2

different Safari windows are open. And

then to minimize them, you're like click

there and then click there. It just

doesn't really feel very intuitive. So I

find myself finding that I'm constantly

fiddling around resizing windows,

manually like this with a little arrow

thing because I never use the green

full-screen thing. This thing is just not

useful because yeah, I want to use it in

full screen, but I want to do other stuff

as well at the same time, not just only

use this. I want to like flip in between

using my other full-screen or mini-screen

apps and programs, but the only way to do

that is you gotta use trackpad to flip

between different spaces and And you can't

have other apps or programs open on top of

the full-screen app as far as I know. So

it's kind of not very useful unless I

really want to just do one task and only

focus on that one task without— like, I

don't know how you could do that because

even when I'm editing a video like I'm

doing now, I've got my editing video here,

video editing software open here. This one

doesn't actually have full-screen support.

This is the max it can go. But even when

I've got this open, I still want to like

go into Safari to look for images and

download images and customize images and

do that kind of stuff. So in conclusion,

I just feel like there's a lot of little

things like that. For example, having to

use the traffic light system at the top

left instead of the top right where it is

on Windows just feels kind of weird as

well. There's little things like that that

I don't really feel comfortable using.

Just feels weird. It's like using your

left hand to write instead of your right

hand. It just doesn't feel natural. So I

kind of miss Windows for a lot of reasons

like this, and I don't really see any

bonuses of using macOS. It's basically the

same as Windows. It does everything

Windows does but in like a different weird

way. It doesn't seem to do anything that

Windows can't do, and I don't really find

myself using things on macOS that I've

thought, wow, I wish Windows had this. So

I kind of feel like I'm going to go back

to Windows eventually. And macOS, it

works, it's fine, but it doesn't really

feel special or anything.