I Switched To Mac, After 15 Years of Windows (BRUH)

nice try, Tim

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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, 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.

As a Linux user with too much time on my hands, I feel called out 😂

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!

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

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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

I've never seen a video that I resonated with that much. I have also bought my first Mac a year ago after only ever Windows only and I gotta say I really enjoy it (for laptop usage, a windows tower is a very different story) but have the same complaints as you do. Anyway great video!

Great video! I was the same, and I am now starting to use my MacBook Air, which was lying around forever. I have to say, it's not as bad as I thought! But the points you mentioned are definitely terrible. One thing freaked me out which you didn't mention: Using Alt + Tab only works with open but not minimized windows. This was giving me such a headache because Alt + Tab is probably my favorite shortcut while doing stuff on my laptop or PC. I can recommend 'Contexts' as a third-party solution, which allows you to personalize the Alt + Tab experience. It's super fast and opens minimized windows if you want but you can also disable if if you want.