Many home Mac users compare their home Mac with a strongly "company-managed" work PC.
Apples and oranges...
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Apples and oranges...
Ok, but the feature I was complaining about isn't exclusive to company managed work PCs.
And I've had Windows on a home PC. Once I switched to Mac at home I never looked back.
Windows 11's new ‘Never Combine’ icons feature is almost usable
After almost three years, Microsoft has finally added the 'Never combine taskbar button' back to Windows, and it still doesn't work correctly.
I am a lifelong Windows user starting with Windows 3.0 and up through W11. I purchased a Mac Air a little over a year ago. There was an adjustment. Some things are easy on the Mac, less easy on Windows. Some things are easy on Windows, less easy on Mac. They are different.
The use of Command rather than Control for shortcut keys is a big difference. The lack of both a backspace and delete key on the Mac (it can be simulated with a shortcut) is another difference. The function of delete is reversed between the two systems.
I don't like file handling on the Mac. Sometimes it copies, sometimes it moves. Depends on the source and destination volumes.
Apps on the Mac change the menu bar. Clicking the red button does not actually terminate the app. I like the way Windows handles application better than Mac. Not that either is better, it is more my muscle memory.
The Mac laptop is about the same in quality, design and usefulness to my Surface Laptop. Trackpads are almost the same except that the Surface trackpad actually depresses with the click on the Mac being simulated. Different.
I do take the Mac with me on trips as it integrates well with my iPhone and iPad.
But to say that either platform is superior, better, or worse, than the other is nothing more than mind games. They both have their strengths and weaknesses.
The use of Command rather than Control for shortcut keys is a big difference. The lack of both a backspace and delete key on the Mac (it can be simulated with a shortcut) is another difference. The function of delete is reversed between the two systems.
I don't like file handling on the Mac. Sometimes it copies, sometimes it moves. Depends on the source and destination volumes.
Apps on the Mac change the menu bar. Clicking the red button does not actually terminate the app. I like the way Windows handles application better than Mac. Not that either is better, it is more my muscle memory.
The Mac laptop is about the same in quality, design and usefulness to my Surface Laptop. Trackpads are almost the same except that the Surface trackpad actually depresses with the click on the Mac being simulated. Different.
I do take the Mac with me on trips as it integrates well with my iPhone and iPad.
But to say that either platform is superior, better, or worse, than the other is nothing more than mind games. They both have their strengths and weaknesses.
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All OSes do that, Windows and Linux too. Within a volume, dragging a file moves it and copies it across volumes.
But to say that either platform is superior, better, or worse, than the other is nothing more than mind games. They both have their strengths and weaknesses.
I tried to like windows 11.... and I kinda do for a windows device.
macOS is just superior, I just did the oclp patch on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro I got last night, and even being an unsupported os, it simply performs much better than my 2022 dell latitude with an i3 processor, 8gb of ram and the ssd it came with. This mid 2010 MacBook Pro is a core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 8gb ram and a 512 ssd and runs circles around the dell which is 12 years newer and has newer components.... so it just shows how bloated windows still is.
Perfect example is facebook, the memory hog it seems to be, on my dell it lags and stutters after scrolling for a while, where this MacBook Pro does not and running an unsupported version of macOS and older components you would think this is the one that would do that, not the newer system.
Just proves why I switched to mac and macOS and likely will never give it another thought especially since rumor has it the next annual update for windows will be heavy on AI, and likely will perform worse.
I tried to like windows 11.... and I kinda do for a windows device.
macOS is just superior, I just did the oclp patch on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro I got last night, and even being an unsupported os, it simply performs much better than my 2022 dell latitude with an i3 processor, 8gb of ram and the ssd it came with. This mid 2010 MacBook Pro is a core 2 duo 2.4ghz, 8gb ram and a 512 ssd and runs circles around the dell which is 12 years newer and has newer components.... so it just shows how bloated windows still is.
Perfect example is facebook, the memory hog it seems to be, on my dell it lags and stutters after scrolling for a while, where this MacBook Pro does not and running an unsupported version of macOS and older components you would think this is the one that would do that, not the newer system.
Just proves why I switched to mac and macOS and likely will never give it another thought especially since rumor has it the next annual update for windows will be heavy on AI, and likely will perform worse.
Interesting analysis. I agree I think.
Interesting, what performance differences some Mac users pretend to have using Windows.
I never had experienced anything that dramatic, even on an ooold Fujisu E780 or an ASUS S300 compared with an much recent Macbook. Using either macOS, Linux or Windows everyting ist equally fluent.
Interesting, that this combination of multiple instances in the taskbar Windows 11 disturbs you that much.Windows 11's new ‘Never Combine’ icons feature is almost usable
After almost three years, Microsoft has finally added the 'Never combine taskbar button' back to Windows, and it still doesn't work correctly.www.bleepingcomputer.com
It's exactly the way macOS does with the dock.
Interesting that you're taking the role of defender of Windows on Macrumors!Interesting, that this combination of multiple instances in the taskbar Windows 11 disturbs you that much.
It's exactly the way macOS does with the dock.
It's not just me that is "disturbed" by this. Here's a 12 page thread of lots of people complaining about the same thing on Microsoft's forums.
What I do on my Mac and what I do at work on completely different. At home I don't have a need to have multiple emails and documents open to reference during the day.
Believe it or not people are allowed to have opinions about what operating systems they do and don't like that you might not agree with!
I am not defending an OS against another. I just wonder that Mac Users appear to complain about a changed Windows 11 behaviour that is long the way macOS works...
my emergency management agency would prefer I use windows, but I refuse to. told them if they cannot do what they want with the reports I do.... using apple's pages, to buy a program for them to be able to. Not like it is coming out of their pocket, its coming out of the counties pocket.
True.
Yes, no legacy stuff.
...And tons of apps that will only run from version x.xx to version y.yy of macOS.
On the top of it an Apple Store that refuses to deliver the legacy apps that would work with your old version, albeit having it on their servers. I hate that !
Legacy is what made Microsoft successful. Enterprises would never accept to live without.
When I moved from Windows to Mac, I was surprised at how long the new OS took to become intuitive for me. In fact, after many years, I'm still stumbling across short cuts and other efficiencies!
Actually, it takes me much longer to use a windows device, even after only using windows for a few years before I started getting good deals on mac devices. I had to help a friend with his windows laptop last night and it took me forever to figure out anything.
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Lifetime WinTel user at work 1985-now , GM then Nissan, via company provided desktops then laptops.
MS-DOS, Win 3.1 on …
I’m fluent in “both”, honestly still my home Mac serves me “better” than my WinTel.
I believe there’s a 29 day return window still?
(Edit) it’s a 14 day return period
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If you use windows, better have a good relationship with your local watering hole and bartenders as you will need it.
That is valid in both directions.
Windows&Linuxes work roughly the same way, macOS does pretty much exactly everything the other way round.
It is like driving in the UK when you come from Europe.
The most annoying is however that Apple infantilizes you: as soon as something is a bit ahead of the bare minimum, you have to expand menus and displays or use (scarcely documented) shortcuts to get things done.
And Apple does everything to keep you inside their golden cage ($$$), if you want to escape, you need conversions, must purchase software, use adapters or it is just forbidden (e.g copy from iOS).