![]() I have seen people switch between Spaces/apps/windows so fast when using gestures on a MacBook that bordered on magic. MacOS is bad at that particular version of window management, but great at something else, and that is being a laptop operating system. Windows is pretty great at arranging windows and desktops, especially when you want to use two or more apps side by side on one monitor. I use an ultrawide monitor with a 24″ secondary monitor at home and two 24″ monitors at work. My “solution” so far has been right-clicking the app icon in the Dock and choosing the window I want, but I will surrender soon and find an app that will help me out here. I literally can’t find the right combination of keys to cycle through windows. It turns out that on the Croatian keyboard layout, I can’t find the right key to press for this shortcut! This is not an exaggeration. I can already sense your thoughts, dear English-language reader: Why not just use Command-backtick (⌘-`) to toggle between windows? There is another very strange thing macOS does that has been driving me crazy, and that’s switching between windows of the same app. I immediately installed Pure Paste, which makes pasting without formatting the default. ![]() My fingers can’t do that! On Windows, it’s Control-Shift-V and even three keys for a shortcut I use very often is stretching it. Still, someone will have to explain to me why the shortcut for pasting text without formatting on the Mac is Option-Shift-Command-V. It got to the point where Jason suggested I just remap the buttons, but I resisted-and it’s better every time I use the Mac. My muscle memory is so used to the Windows key positions that I was having real trouble just copying and pasting. What took some more getting used to is the Control/Command/Option key situation. So when I am on the Mac, I just scroll the Mac way. Premiere uses the Mac way of scrolling on Windows, and I had no problem switching the mental model for scrolling depending on which app I was using. It’s all thanks to Adobe Premiere, which I use at work. I was most worried about the Mac’s inverted scrolling behavior, but it didn’t end up bothering me at all. In my experience, sticking close to the defaults is worth it, because you don’t have to unlearn your customizations and learn new tricks every time something more fundamental changes in the OS.Įvery guide to switching from Windows to Mac warns you about a few changes that, somehow, didn’t bother me too much. These things have had decades to evolve and a lot of thought has been put into the ways things are. ![]() Sure, I’ll use little apps to help things here and there, but I like to leave things like system-level shortcuts and UI behavior alone. I’ve been using computers for long enough that I’ve learned not to stray too far from the defaults of the operating system. While I still do a bit of switching between the Mac and various Windows machines in my life, the Mac mini is now my main computer. I’ve been using the Mac mini for about four months now. So I waited for the computer to be available in Slovenia and bought my first Mac. The announcement of the M2 Pro Mac Mini with all those Thunderbolt ports at the back was the day I knew I was going to switch. Alas, the M1 generation didn’t offer a pro-level chip or enough ports, so it wasn’t for me.) (I am not a laptop person, though, which is why the Mac mini caught my eye. When the M1 MacBook Air came out and I saw it was powerful and fanless, I was suddenly, for the first time ever, very interested in the Mac. My gaming PC tower is a “quiet” build (as much as a PC tower can be), but the many fans inside are audible. The other reason I got the Mac mini is how quiet it is, which is very helpful when you record your voice for a living. (And just to be clear: I do also use my computer for work, and by work I mean a lot of podcasting and writing 2.) With the Switch in the picture, replacing my eight-year-old PC tower with another PC gaming rig seemed kinda dumb. So I bought a Switch-and because it’s portable, it has taken on all of my gaming duties. But in 1998 I played Half-Life on a PC at a friend’s house, and from that day most of the money I saved went toward graphics cards.Īfter we had kids five years ago, actually sitting at a computer and playing games just didn’t happen. I’ve always had Nintendo consoles, starting with the original Game Boy. In a strange way, the reason I switched to a Mac was the Nintendo Switch. The first computer in our apartment was a 386 PC, and from then on it was PC towers… until four months ago, when I bought the M2 Pro Mac mini. Then I played with a 286 PC at my dad’s job. ![]() My first contact with computers was at about 10 years old with the ZX Spectrum my mom’s cousin had. I switched to a Mac after decades on Windows
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