Gary, this is one of your best vids on TH-cam and one I really like. I like how you explain to those who have never used a Mac or coming the Windows PC how they can accomplish the the same tasks but differently on the Mac. I enjoyed the part of explaining at the end why a Windows PC user switching to Mac should give themselves time to learn the Mac way, as opposed to wanting to make the Mac work like Windows. Too often that is the biggest thing I deal with when it comes to those who use Windows and are Now using a Mac for whatever reason. As you know this isn't to say how they do things on a Windows PC is wrong or to suggest that Mac is better at the task. But as you pointed out to truly get the use of their Mac is to actually learn the ins and outs. I typically can fly between both macOS and Windows (flavor) with no issues. I may grumble a bit when i go over to the Windows PC and forget that is not how you do something on it. But, that's only because for a split second I had a wrong OS thought LOL. This I am sure are how some Mac users feel when they are forced over or decide to switch to a Windows PC. They are very slight learning curves that anyone can master if they are willing to take a little time to learn. Great video!
I switched to Mac 2 years ago but still used my Windows computer for a while. Having learned computing on Windows in the early 90's, it has been quite the adjustment for me. I dabbled a little with Linux but quickly gave up on that because it is far too complex for my simple mind. I have been following you for over a year and picking up so much. I haven't used my Windows machine in nearly a year now and still find out new tricks and uses for the Mac thanks to your videos. Thanks so much.
I have worked in computer science and AI for 50+ years. I bought my first Mac in 1984. I have learned, occasionally painfully, that it is not a good idea to try to personalise your computer too much. Sometimes a new OS release requires you to re-customise massively. Sometimes changes can severely impact the function or effectiveness your customisation. So,… Now I just trust the manufacturer (Apple) to do a good job with the default settings. The “laid back” approach brings lower stress and much less effort.
Nice video. I like your advice to stick with the defaults on Mac and not try to turn it into a Windows machine. I have both a Windows machine and a Mac machine, and use both almost every day. It didn't take me more than a couple weeks to get used to the Mac, and now I have no problem switching between them, even with the natural scrolling. But, the biggest difference I notice even now is File Explorer on Windows vs. Finder on Mac. They are quite different, and would be worth a video all on its own.
I was a long time Windows user that went iOS in the late 2000s, then my first MacBook Pro in 2017. I haven't looked back. Yes, it was a bit of a challenge to acclimate with Mac OS ways, but smooth sailing now. And the seamless integration of AirDrop between my latest iPhone, MacBook, iPad and my latest addition, Mac mini is on point! Great video!
8:09 This made me think of some things: 1. How you uninstall apps on some android devices 2. It's unironically funny how the apps wiggle 3. If I used Mac I would almost feel guilty of uninstalling an app, because from a certain point of view it seems like the app is scared of what might happen to him 4. The number 3 is pure cringe in my opinion 5. I shouldn't have wrote the number 3 6. Every point beyond number 4 is completely pointless just to make this comment funny and make you forget the nomber 3. 7. Since I mentioned it in number 6 I need another point now 8. I put another just in case 9. This one is just pointless 10. Have a nice day :)
Overall a good video. I'd say that the trackpads on Macbooks have always been great. They used to be far inferior on Windows laptops 10+ years ago but they are now quite good on mid to high end laptops. I still use the mouse for most things (it is faster than ANY track pad) but I use the trackpad for multigesture things like flipping though desktops.
I started with Amiga 1000 in 1985, moved to Windows 95 and am now on Windows 11 and love it. I've tried to move to an Apple 2C, two Mac Minis, and even a cheese grater Mac and have always gone back to Windows in spite of the fact that I admire the Mac hardware. My favorite of all computers today is an LG Gram 16 with an i7. I also go back to the iPhone 3GS to today's 14 Pro Max, air pods, iPad, and even air tags. I think the Mac and Windows will eventually meld together but it may take 100 years, just as I think Canada and Mexico will eventually join the US, just not in my lifetime, but who is counting.
I hate the lack of a delete key on Mac. I know you can hold down a modifier key and press backspace to achieve the same result but a dedicated key for a commonly used function is vital. I primarily use Fedora Linux as that has the advantages of both macOS and windows combined. I'm impressed by the performance and battery life on my M1 mac however it is sitting collecting dust these days. You mention the advantage of the apple built keyboard but in my country the keyboard is US only so again a jarring difference.
I also agree with your suggestion for former Windows users to learn the Mac way of doing things. However, it's worth mentioning that macOS still has inconsistencies and convoluted ways of doing simple things like maximizing a window. For example, you have to Option-click one of the corners of the window to maximize it.
Well, in a lot (most) cases you can just double-click the title bar. It is only if you have a document window that doesn't need all of the space, but you want to give it that space anyway, that it becomes an issue.
@@macmost Yes, thank you. One would expect that in the "Desktop & Dock" settings, under the "Double-click a window's title bar to" section, there would be a "Maximize" option available along with the "Zoom", "Minimize", and "Do Nothing" options.
I have minimal experience with Windows and years with Mac. In my experience Mac is the stronger computer (with features built into the OS) when generating documents IS the task. For jobs like public relations, legal, etc… the job requires searching through large amounts of documents. Features like smart windows and Boolean searching are essential to keeping organized.
MacOS to a Windows user feels like a UI-enhanced version of Windows 3.11. Little things begin to irritate you very quickly. You try to make it as Windows-like as possible, even changing the black cursor to a white one. Eventually, you feel its charm and elegance and it begins to feel familiar, but some essential features are either missing or vastly inferior. You realise that you can't do your day-to-day business with this OS and switch back Windows. All is good in the world again.
So true. I never liked Macs so I thought I would buy a cheap Mac Mini to change my mind. I’ve gone from disliking MacOS to absolutely hating MacOS. I’m not saying Windows is perfect, but I can at least get things done.
One feature that you didn't mention and something I really enjoy on PC is being able to rename files from the save dialogue screen. Sometimes I go to save a file and realize that I want to name it the same thing as a file that already exists, but I don't want to overwrite that file. With Mac I have to close down the save dialogue and find that file in Finder (or the other file I just created) and do more renaming.
I was a long windows user and switched to mac 3 years ago, and man I miss how windows handle "windows" no joke! If i weren't an iPhone and AirPods user I would back to windows every day! BTW the scrolling gesture on windows is default as smart phones too, swipe up and the page goes up too. However a great video for beginners.
Gary, As you remember, when Microsoft wanted to copy the Macintosh interface, they used reverse engineering to avoid copyright lawsuits. So, for years the keyboard shortcuts used by Windows were backwards. Since most windows users are not aware of that, they don’t realize they are learning the right way to use the graphical user keyboard shortcuts, instead of the backward way they have known. Frank
I've always used Windoze machines at work, and Macs at home since Atari went away. Having been retired now for 3 years, its nice to only remember Mac's way of doing things. Now my challenge is remembering the differences between Mac OS and iOS!
I grew up with windows, loved it for pleasure and for work, but the Metro Tile debacle, Windows 8?, was awful and got worse with the next iterations. The constant updates that stopped you using the computer were ridiculous. Two Windows laptops were left to gather dust. We now operate iMacs and iPads, very happy with the ease of the OS and the integration of the different hardware. Microsoft has nothing to offer on this level.
I just read your response and I agree that the taking over your computer for an update especially if you in the middle of doing something was a pain. I know I disliked it myself. Not to mention if you were on your computer working for long hours but then had to rush off, shutting down would be painful if there was a long update that went into processing as the computer began shutting down! - to the defense of Microsoft (and a lame one I guess if I think about it) I believe I read some place on the internet back in the day that Microsoft went the route of forcing the updates because too often people who skip em only have issues later. So, some goofball at Microsoft decided to force people into applying updates rather they wanted to or not!
Very helpful. I just started a new job at my church, which is all PC-based, unfortunately. But I'm adjusting pretty quickly, thanks to this and other videos. Maybe someday they'll see the light and switch to Mac.
Hello Gary, I really want to thank you for the numerous interesting and extremely helpful Mac tutorials that you regularly make available to us users with so much dedication and commitment. Although I've been a Mac user from the very beginning, thanks to you there's always something new to discover in this huge Apple universe. With my very best wishes and warm regards from Vienna/Austria - Franz
Having switched to Macs years and years ago, I have always maintained that 'natural' scrolling is 'unnatural' for me and so switching that off has always been a must. Seeing your comments and comparing it to iPhone and iPad has me thinking that I should give the default setting a try... and so I just changed it 😲 Also, thank you for pointing out the difference between app and window. I'm embarrassed to say that I never quite got why sometimes closing the window would close the app and other times it did not 🤦♂We live and learn, thank you once again!
If you scroll via touch (the Magic Mouse or Trackpad) then natural scrolling definitely makes more sense. With a scroll wheel it’s more personal preference. Touch based scrolling does feel more natural because you’re actively moving the page up or down with your fingers. Also, if you don’t do precision based work I cannot sing the praises of the trackpad enough. Since I switched and learned all the gestures my navigation speed has increased tenfold. It all feels so intuitive these days.
@@j800r_aswell It doesn't matter a damn if it makes "sense" or not. I switched to Mac 25 years ago, but still use the "un natural" scrolling. In fact, changed the default about halfway through my Mac journey. I tried it their way and still hate it.
@@j800r_aswell I use the trackpad and still prefer the "Unnatural scrolling". When using a trackpad, I am not directly interacting with the screen so the logic doesn't really translate well. I can also argue that since my finger is moving down, I want to see the stuff that is down on the page and not up. It's personal preference and there is no point in debating if one way "makes more sense" than the other. To each their own
@@greebo7857 I absolutely agree about the ‘unnatural’ natural scrolling feature. I’ve used Mac trackpads for years before they introduced that idea of ‘natural’ scrolling to the trackpad to make it match up with using an iPad. I always turn it off on my laptop whenever I upgrade the system. Yes it makes sense on iPad and iPhone because you are interacting with the screen, but it never made sense to me on the track pad because I’m not interacting directly with the screen. I’m interacting with a device telling the screen what to do and it always made sense that if I want to scroll down, I swipe down on the trackpad not up. But I could understand someone who used the iPad or iPhone first would find gestures used there more normal on a trackpad than I do. But man, do I love trackpads. I’ve been a fan since they were introduced on the original G3 iBook. But then again, I loved using the track ball on the old Powerbooks.
Hi Gary, I enjoyed your video. One thing I have been struggling with when switching from Windows to Mac is figuring out which app is active. In Windows, a window or app becomes active automatically by hovering your mouse over it, but on Mac, you have to click on the app or window. A helpful trick for spotting the active app is to look for the red, yellow, and green traffic lights in the top left corner of the app's window. If the lights are on, the app is active; therefore, all keyboard and menu commands will apply to that window/app.
I found myself laughing then waxing nostalgic. Remember DOS prompts? MSFT computers used a disk operating system controlled by specific typed commands. I learned how to Make a Directory, List Contents, and Change Directories at the C: prompt. We were always required to have MSFT computers at work. At first I was the only one who had one. Then one day I worked at a place where there was a funny little square desktop computer with a multicolored Apple on it. “That is a Mackintosh,” someone said. That very early computer was revolutionary for me. It taught me file management using LITTLE PICTURES of file folders. It was magnificent. Rather than changing directories, I could double click on a picture (I don’t think we had mice back then - or did we?) Thanks for this episode. I am a keyboard user whenever possible. Alt-tab (Cmd-tab) between apps is just second nature; Cmd-C, Cmd-V, Cmd-X and Cmd-Z are not even thought about anymore. Cmd-Z continues to save my life everyday.
Yes back in those days we had mice more so on the Apple / Macintosh computers. I remember the DOS days as well and while I was getting the hang of the command line. When I came across the Mac and its GUI, I never really looked back. My Mac days began in the Winter of 1991. And like most geeks back then, I was brain-washed into thinking the Mac was a toy on its way out. I am so happy to know that they are still around and so much more popular in 2024 than they were in those days! Opening up my first box of the Macintosh LC and how simple it was to connect everything and not spending hours trying to resolve something called IRQ conflict. Putting a floppy disk in the drive and the computer seeing it without me having to do a refresh of the screen. And the best thing of all in those days, knowing if a files would fit on a disk before the copy started and the suggestion if they didn't to use more than one disk. These are the simple things back then made me love the Macintosh!
Same, also still learning after over 1 year. In the Notes App I have made a big list with already over 60 notes with commands and shortcuts that I found really useful and definitely want to remember. And I am still learning and new commands are added to my list.
I'm two weeks into Mac, having just bought a Macbook Air for our tour company. Mac, from my perspective, seems a lot less flexible. You must do things "the mac way" something I'm still trying to get used to. A simple convenience like going straight into your primacy storage drive and creating moving around folders to organize your onboard storage. Installing and managing applications... and a host of other windows features. Your videos are very helpful and easy to follow. I miss the ease and flexibility of windows but love the portability, excellent battery's life, and potential of the MacBook air.
The way I personally organize my Mac is to have an alias to the storage folder in my sidebar. I organize all my documents in folders and sub folders (down to the month) by date and have Smart Folders automatically organize by topic/ content. I also have a
I love Mac OS. As a corporate IT guy I wish Apple would develop a competitive alternative to Windows Server Active Directory Domain Services in the enterprise environment. Make it so guys!
I've noticed on some of the channels that only cover Apple stuff that they refer to windows on the Mac as "instances" of applications. Must be former Windows users. 🙂 A lot of people have forgotten, but one of the big reasons Windows doesn't have a menu bar at the top of the screen and instead puts one in every application window was to get around Apple's UI patents. That's also why the mouse pointer is white instead of black, why drive icons are on the left instead of on the right, and so many other seemingly arbitrary UI differences.
I switched to mac in the early 2000's and have never went back. Recently however, I had to use a company Windows laptop and I just never go used to it. I am glad that's over!
Great job Gary, I can see you have the UTM app. I recently installed it but I’m having issues with installing apps within the virtual environment. If you could make a video on this, it’ll be really helpful. Thanks.
The only setting I absolutely cannot handle on Mac is the default handling for the home/end buttons. I work with a lot of code and I am hardwired to use home/end to go to the start or end of the current line. I know the Mac equivalent is Cmd+Left and Cmd+Right but I feel like an old dog trying to learn new tricks cause my muscle memory takes over. Thankfully I found the custom key bind file you can create and redefine those keys.
Most of the stuff you are pointing out I already know as a long-term Mac user. My primary gripe is that I have not been able to find a good gaming keyboard for the Mac. Currently, I use a Windows keyboard for my Mac because it has big fat keys, clickety-clack sounds, and is very, very easy to type on. Plus it has colored lights which are kind of cool. I wish that there was a Mac equivalent to that which would make it far easier to use. I don’t game, but I like the feel of it when I type and I find that my accuracy is far greater than a typical (especially OEM) Mac keyboard. FWIW, I used to teach Windows applications before I retired. But I’ve always had a Mac net work at home, because I just prefer to use it.
I'm forced to use a Win PC at work, but have been a Mac user since 1988. One thing I do _all the time_ is use the arrow keys to navigate Finder items: Click 1x on the folder (in list view), then Right arrow to expand the contents of the folder; Down arrow to move down, Lest arrow to UN-expand the contents of the folder. This makes navigation super fast. I though this was NOT possible in Win, but it is after all. I forget the setting right now, but it's possible, for anyone who does like me w/ Finder items.
Thanks. Your videos are very helpful to me as a new Mac user. I don't know if you take questions but I have 2 related to windows 1) How do you show menu bar items that disappear behind the notch on my MacBook air? On windows taskbar, theres an up arrow icon that shows hidden icons on the bottom right of the screen. is there something like that for Mac? 2) Can you use the delete key to delete a file? I see there is a shortcut of command and some indecipherable symbol to move to trash. Since I cant figure out what that is, delete would be much simpler like on Windows...
I'll assume since it has been a year since you posted your question, you may have already found your answer. If not, the modifier key you are looking for is the Command Key, it's usually nearest to the space bar, and has a clover symbol on it. While the file you want to delete is highlighted you have that option to delete the file pressing Command and the Delete key. That will send the file to the Trash Can. (with a removable drive/disk, you can also eject it this way. Or you can simply right click (Control Key+Mouse button) on the file and select Delete from the contextual menu. I know this is a year later but I thought this could be helpful to you?
As an X Windows user, I found this video particularly helpful. My only wish is that I had found it sooner. Regardless, this video helped confirm a lot of the differences and I agree with your last statement in that new Mac users should take the time to understand how Mac's operate and follow the Apple protocols. The more I learn about the Mac OS the more impressed I am with its functionality, and I thank you for all your videos helping me along my journey into MacOS.
The point of natural scrolling is the modern way of moving things around without a scroll bar. Windows classic way is concentrating on relating the scroll movement to the movement of the scroll bar, not the content of the page. Going natural will set your mind to relate the scrolling movement with the page movement, NOT the scroll bar which in these days is tending to not be used anymore, even on windows. The mind set on a page instead of a scrolling bar also comes from the new touch screen interface that is relatively new on computers and tables and phones etc. To sumarize, is all about the page mindset versus the scroll bar.
You can create a blank file of any format on mac... It's just that it can't be done on GUI and requires terminal. On terminal, type "touch filename.filetype" to create the file at current directory. Not as handy as windows GUI but its there if needed
The new Apple File System(APFS) is really great and superior but I still like the way windows handles files and how it open specially images and arranges the icons. I think Mac OS was designed with mostly non technical people in mind while widows give the user more option to do whatever way he/she wants to use windows. Mac OS is less crash prone and more reliable I would say. Overall I like to use Mac more because it runs things better.
I switched in '09 to MacOS at home and haven't looked back. However, for decades at my job, I was relegated to using Windblows and got rather good at creating PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets and Word docs. Many would come to me and ask how do I make my spreadsheet do this or that? It's good to be OS-dextrous, I suppose.
I know a lot of people will probably scoff at that last point (my past-self included) but I really wish I'd followed that back when I first switched to macOS from windows. as a die-hard windows user, I spent most of my initial days trying to make the Mac work like windows. it only ended up in me cursing and hating macOS, then finally accepting to do it the apple way and finding out it was actually much better optimised. well most of it anyway (still not forgiving apple for not having per-app volume controls)
The Command/Windows key is probably the most annoying thing from being used to Mac and using trying to use Windows. I always have the habit of using that and in Windows it just always brings up the Start menu.
Still have not quite completed my transfer Mac from Win, window management took me longest to get used to, top left instead of top right is hard apparently 😂 I truly ‘hate’ natural scrolling and flatly refuse to use it, there’s nothing ‘natural’ about it. You either move the doc up-down (Mac) or move the viewpoint up-down (Windows) both are legit and fully personal preference. Calling one ‘natural’ is just pretentious.
@@macmost Ironically, Macbooks don't have touch screens, while several Windows laptops do. Yet, Windows users don't have any issues when they switch between 'unnatural' scrolling on the trackpad to 'natural' scrolling on the screen, not even on the first try.
Hi Gary. As a recent Windows convert, I find you videos very helpful. One thing I would like to do is to have the apps and websites open to full screen rather than take the extra step to manually expand. I have unchecked the Close window when existing in System Settings but that doesn't work. Any suggestions?
Depends on the document window, not the app. So if you have a Pages document in a full screen window and quit Pages, then relaunch Pages, it should go back to full screen.
@@macmost I took this course am learning not completed yet I have 1 one “When we make spreadsheets sometime is big then it’s can’t get fit in printing page 📄 Then we reduce size of page but words not readable some time” There is any solution to know before start spreadsheet how much space I will which will fit in proper print page and readable text ?
@@sarbjit4368 Let's take this conversation to its proper place (not here in an unrelated TH-cam video comments section). Ask here: macmost.com/ask (ask with more details too).
what keyboard are you using here? I've been looking for a small black one to replace my larger, full sized numeric keyboard. thanks for the great video. love your content. I always learn a ton!
Transitioned to MacOS exactly a year ago. While from a MacBook Pro performance perspective as a creative professional, it blows away any PC I’ve ever owned. File management/navigation in Finder is still very cumbersome. Windows always made sense and was second nature. Finder is never consistent. Settings always change or revert back. Some applications file management works one way, in another application, it’s slightly different. The inconsistency drives me crazy. And then there’s Safari….. the native browser that’s supposed to be great on a Mac….yet, things never load, it blocks things from loading, and some sites (one is a freakin .gov site, I have to use chrome just to navigate)…. It boggles my mind that MacBook wants us to use Safari, yet the most basic (safe) sites, I can’t…and am forced to download Chrome.
I hated "natural" scrolling and changed that setting as soon as it came to the Mac. When it was first introduced, it was not on by default, but Apple obviously changed that. But in order to make the trackpad really good, you need to go into the Accessibility prefs and dig in there. Not sure why Apple continues to hide these settings here???
The only thing I disagree with is the "natural scrolling" I tried it a few times and I just cannot get used to it. Not because of windows just because to me it does not feel "natural" at all. Makes sense on a touch device when you are directly interacting with the screen. But not a trackpad.
Very useful summary of variances Gary. One question i have unrelated to this video, is how well does the magic keyboard work on the 2022 ipad pro model?
I’ve been looking everywhere for a way to find out how to iterate in numbers to a specific value or a converging value. Anyway you could make a video showing how to do this?
Very simple example: For a given column of values, there exists a value “x” “3x” “x^2” “1/x” and the goal is to iterate starting from 0 until the average is a specific value. Or the sum is a specific value. Etc.
So this is a question about Numbers? Very off-topic in the comments for a video about macOS and Windows differences. In the future ask in the Q&A Forum on my site instead. But as for this question, I don't know. Sounds like a question for a math expert. Not sure if a spreadsheet is the right tool for this.
When I first got my MacBook, all I did was turn dark mode on, turn on VVoiceover, and turned on the option to have my Mac speak what's under the pointer. And enlarged the pointer, since I can't find an option for it to help me find it like I can on Windows.
Disagree on the trackpad. I had to purchase an app to allow 3 finger tap for middle click on Mac. Built in on windows. Windows trackpad is essentially the same otherwise, though smaller.
Not hating on macs here, but one way PC in which is better is that you can build your own and choose what you put in it. As far as I know there's no way to build your own custom Mac.
This might not be very comfortable, but I forgot how to navigate on win10 fr. It's been a year since Win11 and I am just shocked. Man, I feel like I had to reinstall it haha.
What about right clicking on a mouse? I'm pretty sure I saw a video where they said to get the right click on the mouse where you select all, copy and paste like on a windows pc, you have to go in the settings and set it up. Is this true?
'Natural scrolling' is very tendentious! It depends if your mental model is moving the window over a stationary document (natural on Windows) or moving the document behind a stationary window (Mac). To be fair though, the name does perhaps encourage the Mac mental model, rolling a scroll between two rollers.
As a previous windows personal user I found mac single menu for different windows, the lack of dragging window to the side snap and the lack of wildcard searching frustrating 😐
Its like listening to a missionary! I really hope Apple pays you to make those videos, don't consider it a hate comment. The video is very informational.
What's more intuitive? Driving on the right or left side of the road? Depends what you grew up with. If you master one, with some brain-rewiring you can do the other. No one can say what is right or wrong. (The correct answer is obviously right hand side driving and using a Win PC, but didn't want to say that out loud as not to offend anyone...)
The Mac Finder window is a bit crap: - You can't copy the directory path of the Finder window, as there's no path displayed at the top of the window. - Changing how you sort the contents is a faff as you have to toggle the Sort By box at the top. You also get Sort By columns but then you're not really sure what it's doing as there are two Sort By options.
You can Command+click the top of the window, where you see the folder name, to see the path and jump to any folder above. You can choose View, Show Path Bar to see the path below, and then Control+click at any portion of the path to Copy the path. Not sure what you are asking about Sort By. There are lots of options and different views.
@@macmost Thanks for the reply ! I'm not seeing the option to copy the directory path though. re. Sort by... There is the "Arrange By" drop-down button and then you can click on the name at the top of each column, then it's a bit confusing as to why you have two ways of sorting.
@@lewis72 Did you bring up the path bar? Then Control+click on the last part of the path to bring up the context menu. Select Copy. See th-cam.com/video/9ArnOqG7bgU/w-d-xo.html Arrange by is not Sorting, but grouping. It is even called Group by in current versions of macOS.
@@macmost Thanks again for your reply. I knew about the Get Info route. Seems a bit of a faff. I'm using 10.13.6 However, who I DO love about Macs is that you can change the name of a file that is open somewhere.
@@macmost Right, found in now: When I'm in Finder and arrange items by "Kind" using the "Arrange" button at the top, it doesn't arrange items by Kind by default. The column headings to also (?) sort by are Other, Date Modified, Size, Kind. I don't understand why there are two ways of sorting items. Only when I arrange by Kind and then select the column "Kind", do I get items arranged by kind. I can arrange items by Date Modified and then Kind and also Kind and then Date Modified and I get two different results. Just seems very badly set up. I guess if "Arrange by" is "Group by" it may make a bit more sense. Although I hate Windows with a passion, this aspect makes much more sense in Windows. (I think ls -lrt, ls -ld etc is far easier to understand) Rant over.
You should have used Windows 11, the graphical interface of this new Operating System is much more similar to that of Mac OS. But great video nonetheless
Don’t understand the Option + double-click. Nothing ever happens when I double clic anything on my Mac or iPad…. I actually thought Apple doesn’t have a double-click function. I habitually try using it because it’s so commonly used in Windows, but I’m all Apple now and am constantly seeking what to do instead of the double-click.
You left out one of the most confusing differences. Where images are stored on import. I am used to file management, and having my photos stored in folders. On mac however they are dumped in some library file, and you have to use a spesific mac program to find the photo you want. And the photo you find are just the photoes, not the .raw files. My biggest gripe with mac is how the photo management is done.
If you want to store them as files, you can. Use Image Capture to import, put the files where you want. But then you'd miss out on all of the organizational and editing features in Photos. You can always get the original files (it is an export option), but the whole idea is to have all of the functions you want to use with photos available with your photos.
@@macmost Yeah, I have figured out how to store the photoes as files, and how to export photos from the photo app. So now I have a library of photoes, and a lot of photoes stored as files and it is a complete mess. Why could not the photo app on mac just index photoes on the harddrive where they were stored as files, like photo programs on other operating systems. And what if the library file of all your photoes on a mac gets corrupted. Then all your photoes are gone. This photo management system is just one of the annoying Apple things.
@@malelonewolf80 The "complex mess" is exactly the problem the Photos app and its library solve. That and cloud syncing across your devices (a huge feature for many).
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Gary, this is one of your best vids on TH-cam and one I really like. I like how you explain to those who have never used a Mac or coming the Windows PC how they can accomplish the the same tasks but differently on the Mac. I enjoyed the part of explaining at the end why a Windows PC user switching to Mac should give themselves time to learn the Mac way, as opposed to wanting to make the Mac work like Windows. Too often that is the biggest thing I deal with when it comes to those who use Windows and are Now using a Mac for whatever reason. As you know this isn't to say how they do things on a Windows PC is wrong or to suggest that Mac is better at the task. But as you pointed out to truly get the use of their Mac is to actually learn the ins and outs. I typically can fly between both macOS and Windows (flavor) with no issues. I may grumble a bit when i go over to the Windows PC and forget that is not how you do something on it. But, that's only because for a split second I had a wrong OS thought LOL. This I am sure are how some Mac users feel when they are forced over or decide to switch to a Windows PC. They are very slight learning curves that anyone can master if they are willing to take a little time to learn. Great video!
I switched to Mac 2 years ago but still used my Windows computer for a while. Having learned computing on Windows in the early 90's, it has been quite the adjustment for me. I dabbled a little with Linux but quickly gave up on that because it is far too complex for my simple mind. I have been following you for over a year and picking up so much. I haven't used my Windows machine in nearly a year now and still find out new tricks and uses for the Mac thanks to your videos. Thanks so much.
I have worked in computer science and AI for 50+ years. I bought my first Mac in 1984.
I have learned, occasionally painfully, that it is not a good idea to try to personalise your computer too much.
Sometimes a new OS release requires you to re-customise massively.
Sometimes changes can severely impact the function or effectiveness your customisation.
So,… Now I just trust the manufacturer (Apple) to do a good job with the default settings.
The “laid back” approach brings lower stress and much less effort.
Nice video. I like your advice to stick with the defaults on Mac and not try to turn it into a Windows machine. I have both a Windows machine and a Mac machine, and use both almost every day. It didn't take me more than a couple weeks to get used to the Mac, and now I have no problem switching between them, even with the natural scrolling. But, the biggest difference I notice even now is File Explorer on Windows vs. Finder on Mac. They are quite different, and would be worth a video all on its own.
I was a long time Windows user that went iOS in the late 2000s, then my first MacBook Pro in 2017. I haven't looked back. Yes, it was a bit of a challenge to acclimate with Mac OS ways, but smooth sailing now. And the seamless integration of AirDrop between my latest iPhone, MacBook, iPad and my latest addition, Mac mini is on point! Great video!
8:09 This made me think of some things:
1. How you uninstall apps on some android devices
2. It's unironically funny how the apps wiggle
3. If I used Mac I would almost feel guilty of uninstalling an app, because from a certain point of view it seems like the app is scared of what might happen to him
4. The number 3 is pure cringe in my opinion
5. I shouldn't have wrote the number 3
6. Every point beyond number 4 is completely pointless just to make this comment funny and make you forget the nomber 3.
7. Since I mentioned it in number 6 I need another point now
8. I put another just in case
9. This one is just pointless
10. Have a nice day :)
Overall a good video. I'd say that the trackpads on Macbooks have always been great. They used to be far inferior on Windows laptops 10+ years ago but they are now quite good on mid to high end laptops. I still use the mouse for most things (it is faster than ANY track pad) but I use the trackpad for multigesture things like flipping though desktops.
I started with Amiga 1000 in 1985, moved to Windows 95 and am now on Windows 11 and love it. I've tried to move to an Apple 2C, two Mac Minis, and even a cheese grater Mac and have always gone back to Windows in spite of the fact that I admire the Mac hardware. My favorite of all computers today is an LG Gram 16 with an i7. I also go back to the iPhone 3GS to today's 14 Pro Max, air pods, iPad, and even air tags.
I think the Mac and Windows will eventually meld together but it may take 100 years, just as I think Canada and Mexico will eventually join the US, just not in my lifetime, but who is counting.
I hate the lack of a delete key on Mac. I know you can hold down a modifier key and press backspace to achieve the same result but a dedicated key for a commonly used function is vital. I primarily use Fedora Linux as that has the advantages of both macOS and windows combined. I'm impressed by the performance and battery life on my M1 mac however it is sitting collecting dust these days. You mention the advantage of the apple built keyboard but in my country the keyboard is US only so again a jarring difference.
I also agree with your suggestion for former Windows users to learn the Mac way of doing things. However, it's worth mentioning that macOS still has inconsistencies and convoluted ways of doing simple things like maximizing a window. For example, you have to Option-click one of the corners of the window to maximize it.
Well, in a lot (most) cases you can just double-click the title bar. It is only if you have a document window that doesn't need all of the space, but you want to give it that space anyway, that it becomes an issue.
@@macmost Yes, thank you. One would expect that in the "Desktop & Dock" settings, under the "Double-click a window's title bar to" section, there would be a "Maximize" option available along with the "Zoom", "Minimize", and "Do Nothing" options.
I have minimal experience with Windows and years with Mac. In my experience Mac is the stronger computer (with features built into the OS) when generating documents IS the task. For jobs like public relations, legal, etc… the job requires searching through large amounts of documents. Features like smart windows and Boolean searching are essential to keeping organized.
MacOS to a Windows user feels like a UI-enhanced version of Windows 3.11. Little things begin to irritate you very quickly. You try to make it as Windows-like as possible, even changing the black cursor to a white one. Eventually, you feel its charm and elegance and it begins to feel familiar, but some essential features are either missing or vastly inferior. You realise that you can't do your day-to-day business with this OS and switch back Windows. All is good in the world again.
So true. I never liked Macs so I thought I would buy a cheap Mac Mini to change my mind. I’ve gone from disliking MacOS to absolutely hating MacOS. I’m not saying Windows is perfect, but I can at least get things done.
One feature that you didn't mention and something I really enjoy on PC is being able to rename files from the save dialogue screen. Sometimes I go to save a file and realize that I want to name it the same thing as a file that already exists, but I don't want to overwrite that file. With Mac I have to close down the save dialogue and find that file in Finder (or the other file I just created) and do more renaming.
You can do that on the Mac too. In the Save dialog, just Control+click (right+click) on a file you see and choose rename.
I was a long windows user and switched to mac 3 years ago, and man I miss how windows handle "windows" no joke! If i weren't an iPhone and AirPods user I would back to windows every day!
BTW the scrolling gesture on windows is default as smart phones too, swipe up and the page goes up too.
However a great video for beginners.
Gary, your knowledge of “computers” is amazing!
I am always learning from you. Great work!
Gary, As you remember, when Microsoft wanted to copy the Macintosh interface, they used reverse engineering to avoid copyright lawsuits. So, for years the keyboard shortcuts used by Windows were backwards. Since most windows users are not aware of that, they don’t realize they are learning the right way to use the graphical user keyboard shortcuts, instead of the backward way they have known. Frank
I've always used Windoze machines at work, and Macs at home since Atari went away. Having been retired now for 3 years, its nice to only remember Mac's way of doing things. Now my challenge is remembering the differences between Mac OS and iOS!
I grew up with windows, loved it for pleasure and for work, but the Metro Tile debacle, Windows 8?, was awful and got worse with the next iterations.
The constant updates that stopped you using the computer were ridiculous.
Two Windows laptops were left to gather dust.
We now operate iMacs and iPads, very happy with the ease of the OS and the integration of the different hardware.
Microsoft has nothing to offer on this level.
I just read your response and I agree that the taking over your computer for an update especially if you in the middle of doing something was a pain. I know I disliked it myself. Not to mention if you were on your computer working for long hours but then had to rush off, shutting down would be painful if there was a long update that went into processing as the computer began shutting down! - to the defense of Microsoft (and a lame one I guess if I think about it) I believe I read some place on the internet back in the day that Microsoft went the route of forcing the updates because too often people who skip em only have issues later. So, some goofball at Microsoft decided to force people into applying updates rather they wanted to or not!
Very helpful. I just started a new job at my church, which is all PC-based, unfortunately. But I'm adjusting pretty quickly, thanks to this and other videos. Maybe someday they'll see the light and switch to Mac.
Hello Gary, I really want to thank you for the numerous interesting and extremely helpful Mac tutorials that you regularly make available to us users with so much dedication and commitment. Although I've been a Mac user from the very beginning, thanks to you there's always something new to discover in this huge Apple universe.
With my very best wishes and warm regards from Vienna/Austria - Franz
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Having switched to Macs years and years ago, I have always maintained that 'natural' scrolling is 'unnatural' for me and so switching that off has always been a must. Seeing your comments and comparing it to iPhone and iPad has me thinking that I should give the default setting a try... and so I just changed it 😲 Also, thank you for pointing out the difference between app and window. I'm embarrassed to say that I never quite got why sometimes closing the window would close the app and other times it did not 🤦♂We live and learn, thank you once again!
If you scroll via touch (the Magic Mouse or Trackpad) then natural scrolling definitely makes more sense. With a scroll wheel it’s more personal preference. Touch based scrolling does feel more natural because you’re actively moving the page up or down with your fingers.
Also, if you don’t do precision based work I cannot sing the praises of the trackpad enough. Since I switched and learned all the gestures my navigation speed has increased tenfold. It all feels so intuitive these days.
@@j800r_aswell It doesn't matter a damn if it makes "sense" or not. I switched to Mac 25 years ago, but still use the "un natural" scrolling. In fact, changed the default about halfway through my Mac journey. I tried it their way and still hate it.
@@j800r_aswell I use the trackpad and still prefer the "Unnatural scrolling". When using a trackpad, I am not directly interacting with the screen so the logic doesn't really translate well. I can also argue that since my finger is moving down, I want to see the stuff that is down on the page and not up. It's personal preference and there is no point in debating if one way "makes more sense" than the other. To each their own
@@greebo7857 I absolutely agree about the ‘unnatural’ natural scrolling feature. I’ve used Mac trackpads for years before they introduced that idea of ‘natural’ scrolling to the trackpad to make it match up with using an iPad. I always turn it off on my laptop whenever I upgrade the system. Yes it makes sense on iPad and iPhone because you are interacting with the screen, but it never made sense to me on the track pad because I’m not interacting directly with the screen. I’m interacting with a device telling the screen what to do and it always made sense that if I want to scroll down, I swipe down on the trackpad not up. But I could understand someone who used the iPad or iPhone first would find gestures used there more normal on a trackpad than I do. But man, do I love trackpads. I’ve been a fan since they were introduced on the original G3 iBook. But then again, I loved using the track ball on the old Powerbooks.
It is just more comfortable to scroll down (which is far more used than scroll up) by sliding fingers down because it approximates closing your fist.
Hi Gary, I enjoyed your video. One thing I have been struggling with when switching from Windows to Mac is figuring out which app is active. In Windows, a window or app becomes active automatically by hovering your mouse over it, but on Mac, you have to click on the app or window. A helpful trick for spotting the active app is to look for the red, yellow, and green traffic lights in the top left corner of the app's window. If the lights are on, the app is active; therefore, all keyboard and menu commands will apply to that window/app.
Or, look at the menu bar for the name of the first menu after the .
Many times I have started typing away to realize the app I am typing into is not active…
Gary, your last sentence is gold! Get used to the Mac way of doing things.
I found myself laughing then waxing nostalgic. Remember DOS prompts? MSFT computers used a disk operating system controlled by specific typed commands. I learned how to Make a Directory, List Contents, and Change Directories at the C: prompt.
We were always required to have MSFT computers at work. At first I was the only one who had one.
Then one day I worked at a place where there was a funny little square desktop computer with a multicolored Apple on it. “That is a Mackintosh,” someone said. That very early computer was revolutionary for me. It taught me file management using LITTLE PICTURES of file folders. It was magnificent. Rather than changing directories, I could double click on a picture (I don’t think we had mice back then - or did we?)
Thanks for this episode. I am a keyboard user whenever possible. Alt-tab (Cmd-tab) between apps is just second nature; Cmd-C, Cmd-V, Cmd-X and Cmd-Z are not even thought about anymore. Cmd-Z continues to save my life everyday.
Yes back in those days we had mice more so on the Apple / Macintosh computers. I remember the DOS days as well and while I was getting the hang of the command line. When I came across the Mac and its GUI, I never really looked back. My Mac days began in the Winter of 1991. And like most geeks back then, I was brain-washed into thinking the Mac was a toy on its way out. I am so happy to know that they are still around and so much more popular in 2024 than they were in those days! Opening up my first box of the Macintosh LC and how simple it was to connect everything and not spending hours trying to resolve something called IRQ conflict. Putting a floppy disk in the drive and the computer seeing it without me having to do a refresh of the screen. And the best thing of all in those days, knowing if a files would fit on a disk before the copy started and the suggestion if they didn't to use more than one disk. These are the simple things back then made me love the Macintosh!
Thanks for this content! I switched from Windows to Mac about two years ago and am still learning, honestly.
Same, also still learning after over 1 year. In the Notes App I have made a big list with already over 60 notes with commands and shortcuts that I found really useful and definitely want to remember. And I am still learning and new commands are added to my list.
I'm two weeks into Mac, having just bought a Macbook Air for our tour company. Mac, from my perspective, seems a lot less flexible. You must do things "the mac way" something I'm still trying to get used to. A simple convenience like going straight into your primacy storage drive and creating moving around folders to organize your onboard storage. Installing and managing applications... and a host of other windows features. Your videos are very helpful and easy to follow. I miss the ease and flexibility of windows but love the portability, excellent battery's life, and potential of the MacBook air.
The way I personally organize my Mac is to have an alias to the storage folder in my sidebar.
I organize all my documents in folders and sub folders (down to the month) by date and have Smart Folders automatically organize by topic/ content.
I also have a
I love Mac OS. As a corporate IT guy I wish Apple would develop a competitive alternative to Windows Server Active Directory Domain Services in the enterprise environment. Make it so guys!
Mac os is more stable
Couldn't agree more
Not even remotely true anymore, sadly
I've noticed on some of the channels that only cover Apple stuff that they refer to windows on the Mac as "instances" of applications. Must be former Windows users. 🙂 A lot of people have forgotten, but one of the big reasons Windows doesn't have a menu bar at the top of the screen and instead puts one in every application window was to get around Apple's UI patents. That's also why the mouse pointer is white instead of black, why drive icons are on the left instead of on the right, and so many other seemingly arbitrary UI differences.
I switched to mac in the early 2000's and have never went back. Recently however, I had to use a company Windows laptop and I just never go used to it. I am glad that's over!
Great job Gary,
I can see you have the UTM app. I recently installed it but I’m having issues with installing apps within the virtual environment. If you could make a video on this, it’ll be really helpful.
Thanks.
UTM app? I was probably just testing it out a while back. I don't really use it.
The only setting I absolutely cannot handle on Mac is the default handling for the home/end buttons. I work with a lot of code and I am hardwired to use home/end to go to the start or end of the current line. I know the Mac equivalent is Cmd+Left and Cmd+Right but I feel like an old dog trying to learn new tricks cause my muscle memory takes over. Thankfully I found the custom key bind file you can create and redefine those keys.
Most of the stuff you are pointing out I already know as a long-term Mac user. My primary gripe is that I have not been able to find a good gaming keyboard for the Mac. Currently, I use a Windows keyboard for my Mac because it has big fat keys, clickety-clack sounds, and is very, very easy to type on. Plus it has colored lights which are kind of cool. I wish that there was a Mac equivalent to that which would make it far easier to use. I don’t game, but I like the feel of it when I type and I find that my accuracy is far greater than a typical (especially OEM) Mac keyboard.
FWIW, I used to teach Windows applications before I retired. But I’ve always had a Mac net work at home, because I just prefer to use it.
Another gem Gary, especially for us recent Windows converts!
I'm forced to use a Win PC at work, but have been a Mac user since 1988. One thing I do _all the time_ is use the arrow keys to navigate Finder items: Click 1x on the folder (in list view), then Right arrow to expand the contents of the folder; Down arrow to move down, Lest arrow to UN-expand the contents of the folder. This makes navigation super fast. I though this was NOT possible in Win, but it is after all. I forget the setting right now, but it's possible, for anyone who does like me w/ Finder items.
Thanks. Your videos are very helpful to me as a new Mac user. I don't know if you take questions but I have 2 related to windows
1) How do you show menu bar items that disappear behind the notch on my MacBook air? On windows taskbar, theres an up arrow icon that shows hidden icons on the bottom right of the screen. is there something like that for Mac?
2) Can you use the delete key to delete a file? I see there is a shortcut of command and some indecipherable symbol to move to trash. Since I cant figure out what that is, delete would be much simpler like on Windows...
I'll assume since it has been a year since you posted your question, you may have already found your answer. If not, the modifier key you are looking for is the Command Key, it's usually nearest to the space bar, and has a clover symbol on it. While the file you want to delete is highlighted you have that option to delete the file pressing Command and the Delete key. That will send the file to the Trash Can. (with a removable drive/disk, you can also eject it this way. Or you can simply right click (Control Key+Mouse button) on the file and select Delete from the contextual menu. I know this is a year later but I thought this could be helpful to you?
As an X Windows user, I found this video particularly helpful. My only wish is that I had found it sooner. Regardless, this video helped confirm a lot of the differences and I agree with your last statement in that new Mac users should take the time to understand how Mac's operate and follow the Apple protocols. The more I learn about the Mac OS the more impressed I am with its functionality, and I thank you for all your videos helping me along my journey into MacOS.
This was really great and simple to understand. Great teaching video! Keep it up!
Just switched from windows o a MacBook hoping my video editing experience will be better than it has been in windows. Bing watching your videos.
This channel has the best apple tutorials every.
The point of natural scrolling is the modern way of moving things around without a scroll bar. Windows classic way is concentrating on relating the scroll movement to the movement of the scroll bar, not the content of the page. Going natural will set your mind to relate the scrolling movement with the page movement, NOT the scroll bar which in these days is tending to not be used anymore, even on windows. The mind set on a page instead of a scrolling bar also comes from the new touch screen interface that is relatively new on computers and tables and phones etc. To sumarize, is all about the page mindset versus the scroll bar.
You can create a blank file of any format on mac... It's just that it can't be done on GUI and requires terminal. On terminal, type "touch filename.filetype" to create the file at current directory. Not as handy as windows GUI but its there if needed
The new Apple File System(APFS) is really great and superior but I still like the way windows handles files and how it open specially images and arranges the icons. I think Mac OS was designed with mostly non technical people in mind while widows give the user more option to do whatever way he/she wants to use windows. Mac OS is less crash prone and more reliable I would say. Overall I like to use Mac more because it runs things better.
OMG a big fat THANK YOU for this video! super helpful after being a windows user for 30+ years
3:22 Time to switch to celsius Gary. I for a moment thought you were in Australia lol
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I switched in '09 to MacOS at home and haven't looked back. However, for decades at my job, I was relegated to using Windblows and got rather good at creating PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets and Word docs. Many would come to me and ask how do I make my spreadsheet do this or that? It's good to be OS-dextrous, I suppose.
I know a lot of people will probably scoff at that last point (my past-self included) but I really wish I'd followed that back when I first switched to macOS from windows. as a die-hard windows user, I spent most of my initial days trying to make the Mac work like windows. it only ended up in me cursing and hating macOS, then finally accepting to do it the apple way and finding out it was actually much better optimised. well most of it anyway (still not forgiving apple for not having per-app volume controls)
thanks for all your videos , I'm glad to find your channel on TH-cam
big Like to you from middle east :)
The Command/Windows key is probably the most annoying thing from being used to Mac and using trying to use Windows. I always have the habit of using that and in Windows it just always brings up the Start menu.
I was leave windows, 7 years ago. I still using imac 5k computer, no crash, no format, no meanless errors 👍👍👍 ps: I am the game developer.
Still have not quite completed my transfer Mac from Win, window management took me longest to get used to, top left instead of top right is hard apparently 😂
I truly ‘hate’ natural scrolling and flatly refuse to use it, there’s nothing ‘natural’ about it. You either move the doc up-down (Mac) or move the viewpoint up-down (Windows) both are legit and fully personal preference. Calling one ‘natural’ is just pretentious.
They call it natural because it then works the same way a touchscreen device (iPhone, iPad) does.
@@macmost Ironically, Macbooks don't have touch screens, while several Windows laptops do. Yet, Windows users don't have any issues when they switch between 'unnatural' scrolling on the trackpad to 'natural' scrolling on the screen, not even on the first try.
AppCleaner is a nice App to get rid of Apps. It shows you where all the other stuff related to an app is an deletes them for you
Except for app window management, mac is good.
Windows has excellent app window management and snap option, which is super useful to power users.
Hi Gary. As a recent Windows convert, I find you videos very helpful. One thing I would like to do is to have the apps and websites open to full screen rather than take the extra step to manually expand. I have unchecked the Close window when existing in System Settings but that doesn't work. Any suggestions?
Depends on the document window, not the app. So if you have a Pages document in a full screen window and quit Pages, then relaunch Pages, it should go back to full screen.
You doing Very good job man
Which course i will take your for learn all about numbers ?
I have a Numbers course at courses.macmost.com
@@macmost I took this course am learning not completed yet I have 1 one
“When we make spreadsheets sometime is big then it’s can’t get fit in printing page 📄
Then we reduce size of page but words not readable some time”
There is any solution to know before start spreadsheet how much space I will which will fit in proper print page and readable text ?
@@sarbjit4368 Let's take this conversation to its proper place (not here in an unrelated TH-cam video comments section). Ask here: macmost.com/ask (ask with more details too).
Thanks so much for showing me how to remove an apple app, I just couldn’t find out how to do it… now dragged into the bin 👍🏻
what keyboard are you using here?
I've been looking for a small black one to replace my larger, full sized numeric keyboard.
thanks for the great video. love your content. I always learn a ton!
I'm using the previous generation Apple keyboard with numeric keypad. If you want a compact one, get the standard Apple keyboard.
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Pardon my tardiness! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️
Thanks very much, Gary, for this extremely interesting video. Long time since I used a Microsoft computer!
“Natural scrolling“ may be fine for trackpad users but makes little sense for mouse users, or at least this mouse user.
Transitioned to MacOS exactly a year ago. While from a MacBook Pro performance perspective as a creative professional, it blows away any PC I’ve ever owned. File management/navigation in Finder is still very cumbersome. Windows always made sense and was second nature. Finder is never consistent. Settings always change or revert back. Some applications file management works one way, in another application, it’s slightly different. The inconsistency drives me crazy. And then there’s Safari….. the native browser that’s supposed to be great on a Mac….yet, things never load, it blocks things from loading, and some sites (one is a freakin .gov site, I have to use chrome just to navigate)…. It boggles my mind that MacBook wants us to use Safari, yet the most basic (safe) sites, I can’t…and am forced to download Chrome.
I hated "natural" scrolling and changed that setting as soon as it came to the Mac. When it was first introduced, it was not on by default, but Apple obviously changed that. But in order to make the trackpad really good, you need to go into the Accessibility prefs and dig in there. Not sure why Apple continues to hide these settings here???
Is it possible to set the mouse scrolling direction different than the trackpad scrolling on the same Mac?
Not without a third-party app.
The only thing I disagree with is the "natural scrolling" I tried it a few times and I just cannot get used to it. Not because of windows just because to me it does not feel "natural" at all. Makes sense on a touch device when you are directly interacting with the screen. But not a trackpad.
Great information as always!
Very useful summary of variances Gary. One question i have unrelated to this video, is how well does the magic keyboard work on the 2022 ipad pro model?
Sorry, I don't know. I assume well? I don't have it.
Amazing comparison
Haven't used a Windows machine in a decade.
you good thanks
I’ve been looking everywhere for a way to find out how to iterate in numbers to a specific value or a converging value. Anyway you could make a video showing how to do this?
Very simple example: For a given column of values, there exists a value “x” “3x” “x^2” “1/x” and the goal is to iterate starting from 0 until the average is a specific value. Or the sum is a specific value. Etc.
So this is a question about Numbers? Very off-topic in the comments for a video about macOS and Windows differences. In the future ask in the Q&A Forum on my site instead. But as for this question, I don't know. Sounds like a question for a math expert. Not sure if a spreadsheet is the right tool for this.
When I first got my MacBook, all I did was turn dark mode on, turn on VVoiceover, and turned on the option to have my Mac speak what's under the pointer. And enlarged the pointer, since I can't find an option for it to help me find it like I can on Windows.
Move the mouse rapidly (or move your finger on the trackpad rapidly) back and forth and the pointer will enlarge to show you where it is.
THANK YOU
Love my M1 mac mini.
Disagree on the trackpad. I had to purchase an app to allow 3 finger tap for middle click on Mac. Built in on windows. Windows trackpad is essentially the same otherwise, though smaller.
Not hating on macs here, but one way PC in which is better is that you can build your own and choose what you put in it. As far as I know there's no way to build your own custom Mac.
Hey Gary: If someone uninstalls the Photos app, (not that they would on purpose) their libraries are NOT auto-deleted, correct?
The libraries are not stored inside the app, of course. Just removing any app shouldn't touch the documents or containers they use.
Thanks bunches
This might not be very comfortable, but I forgot how to navigate on win10 fr. It's been a year since Win11 and I am just shocked. Man, I feel like I had to reinstall it haha.
Wow I am not a fan of Windows but in this I need to give props to Windows how simple it is .
Mac is the best👍
Hi Gary can you throw any light on the reason Mac OS won’t let us share direct to email anymore
What do you mean. Share what, from where? Need specifics...
What about right clicking on a mouse? I'm pretty sure I saw a video where they said to get the right click on the mouse where you select all, copy and paste like on a windows pc, you have to go in the settings and set it up. Is this true?
Should be on by default, but you do have controls for the Apple Mouse in there where you can customize the right+click.
'Natural scrolling' is very tendentious! It depends if your mental model is moving the window over a stationary document (natural on Windows) or moving the document behind a stationary window (Mac). To be fair though, the name does perhaps encourage the Mac mental model, rolling a scroll between two rollers.
Hi Gary ,How to delete files on mac using keyboard shortcut??
Just look in the menu bar. File, Move To Trash. You'll see the keyboard shortcut right there: Command+Delete.
@@macmost thanks I referred your another video about delete button .thank you very much for your contents they very useful to me.
As a previous windows personal user I found mac single menu for different windows, the lack of dragging window to the side snap and the lack of wildcard searching frustrating 😐
Windows snap and you can certainly search using wildcards. th-cam.com/video/v1cBhIRROAg/w-d-xo.html
@@macmost thank you for the reply and link. I really appreciate your videos. It’s really helpful
Is too much... I'll give it to Mac anyday... but truth be told Windows give me all the experience to come this far.
Its like listening to a missionary! I really hope Apple pays you to make those videos, don't consider it a hate comment. The video is very informational.
Would be weird for me to have made more than 3000 videos if I didn't even like Macs, wouldn't it?
@@macmost naaaaaah mac is a paid actor!!😁😁😁
I absolutely love my iPhone, iPad and apple watch. But I dislike a Mac. I had 2 and sold them and went back to Windows.
All these reasons are why my Dad sadly has never been remotely open to using a Mac. He sees it as just being needlessly different. 😅
What's more intuitive? Driving on the right or left side of the road? Depends what you grew up with.
If you master one, with some brain-rewiring you can do the other. No one can say what is right or wrong.
(The correct answer is obviously right hand side driving and using a Win PC, but didn't want to say that out loud as not to offend anyone...)
Mac OS just works.
I hoped you've used Windows 11 though. Windows 11 is more of an updated operating system by Windows. Still, interesting video!
The Mac Finder window is a bit crap:
- You can't copy the directory path of the Finder window, as there's no path displayed at the top of the window.
- Changing how you sort the contents is a faff as you have to toggle the Sort By box at the top. You also get Sort By columns but then you're not really sure what it's doing as there are two Sort By options.
You can Command+click the top of the window, where you see the folder name, to see the path and jump to any folder above. You can choose View, Show Path Bar to see the path below, and then Control+click at any portion of the path to Copy the path. Not sure what you are asking about Sort By. There are lots of options and different views.
@@macmost
Thanks for the reply !
I'm not seeing the option to copy the directory path though.
re. Sort by...
There is the "Arrange By" drop-down button and then you can click on the name at the top of each column, then it's a bit confusing as to why you have two ways of sorting.
@@lewis72 Did you bring up the path bar? Then Control+click on the last part of the path to bring up the context menu. Select Copy. See th-cam.com/video/9ArnOqG7bgU/w-d-xo.html
Arrange by is not Sorting, but grouping. It is even called Group by in current versions of macOS.
@@macmost
Thanks again for your reply.
I knew about the Get Info route. Seems a bit of a faff.
I'm using 10.13.6
However, who I DO love about Macs is that you can change the name of a file that is open somewhere.
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Right, found in now:
When I'm in Finder and arrange items by "Kind" using the "Arrange" button at the top, it doesn't arrange items by Kind by default.
The column headings to also (?) sort by are Other, Date Modified, Size, Kind.
I don't understand why there are two ways of sorting items.
Only when I arrange by Kind and then select the column "Kind", do I get items arranged by kind.
I can arrange items by Date Modified and then Kind and also Kind and then Date Modified and I get two different results.
Just seems very badly set up.
I guess if "Arrange by" is "Group by" it may make a bit more sense. Although I hate Windows with a passion, this aspect makes much more sense in Windows. (I think ls -lrt, ls -ld etc is far easier to understand)
Rant over.
You should have used Windows 11, the graphical interface of this new Operating System is much more similar to that of Mac OS. But great video nonetheless
As a lifelong Mac user, natural scrolling is the worst!
Does windows offer multiple desktops?
support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/multiple-desktops-in-windows-36f52e38-5b4a-557b-2ff9-e1a60c976434
Don’t understand the Option + double-click. Nothing ever happens when I double clic anything on my Mac or iPad…. I actually thought Apple doesn’t have a double-click function. I habitually try using it because it’s so commonly used in Windows, but I’m all Apple now and am constantly seeking what to do instead of the double-click.
The first thing I do with a new Mac is disable the natural scrolling, it is truly awful!
How do you deal with it on a phone or tablet then?
You left out one of the most confusing differences. Where images are stored on import. I am used to file management, and having my photos stored in folders. On mac however they are dumped in some library file, and you have to use a spesific mac program to find the photo you want. And the photo you find are just the photoes, not the .raw files. My biggest gripe with mac is how the photo management is done.
If you want to store them as files, you can. Use Image Capture to import, put the files where you want. But then you'd miss out on all of the organizational and editing features in Photos. You can always get the original files (it is an export option), but the whole idea is to have all of the functions you want to use with photos available with your photos.
@@macmost Yeah, I have figured out how to store the photoes as files, and how to export photos from the photo app. So now I have a library of photoes, and a lot of photoes stored as files and it is a complete mess. Why could not the photo app on mac just index photoes on the harddrive where they were stored as files, like photo programs on other operating systems. And what if the library file of all your photoes on a mac gets corrupted. Then all your photoes are gone. This photo management system is just one of the annoying Apple things.
@@malelonewolf80 The "complex mess" is exactly the problem the Photos app and its library solve. That and cloud syncing across your devices (a huge feature for many).
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