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I Tried Apple as a Windows Person for a Year
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- Published on Mar 4, 2026
- It's been a year since I decided to give macOS, iOS, iPadOS and basically the Apple Ecosystem a try, after using Windows my whole life. This is a review of my experience and struggles. Hope you enjoy :)
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At least now I can finally try MacOS Vista
Jux, I've been using Apple since my dad joined apple in 1981. We use shortcut keys all the time. Hitting CMD + spacebar for the spotlight search , and then typing what file or app or folder you need will bring it up rapidly. CMD + Q is what quits an app. CMD + W closes windows. I don't really click on stuff much on MacOS compared to Linux or Windows... Furthermore, RAM management on Linux and MacOS or iOS is done really really well. You shouldn't worry too much.
Kekw
I want you to redesign Ubuntu.
bazzite/steamos would be fun
@Tenelia Went the other side : I used BetterTouchTool to map keyboard shorcuts to trackpad gesture. That way, I can 3 finger click to close a window or 4 finger click to quit an app. I can even tip-tapping left or right to switch tabs on every app which is really cool.
I use the trackpad to surf and my keyboard only to write.
“I just want to work”
- Proceeds to install developer beta
😂
I mean
She is a developer
lmao exactly
@DanilSay developer beta is only for testing apps to ensure they will work in the new version. It's not a complete os
@Dannydave43and she needs to know how new UI looks, because she is UI/UX designer .
2:40 apple is really good at price laddering, casually nudging the customer to take another step upwards.
that marketing strategy is called "upselling" and is very effective
@WegWieSemmeln Both are correct.
Yup Hahaha, I was considering buying a used 12 Pro Max, but I ended up getting a new 16 Pro Max instead
@AbryanXhow so that price gap must be huge?
@rajK29_ The thing is they are doing the same strategy with the specs too between the generations, it's pay more get more type of thing
I gasped at 8 gigabytes of ram. Especially since you are a video editor
8gb ram is more than enough for editing
my laptop i play games on also only has 8 gb ram
@Achill_randomguyunless you are loading your 10+ min 4k videos all in the timeline
@Achill_randomguy u gonna scream if you do big project on photoshop or after effect with that 8 gigs (been there on m1 mac mini)
@Chapwarrior9ye I’m on mac M1 chip
Apple usually doesn’t release massive UI updates annually. It’s usually incremental. You happened to hop in during a massive shift.
Do you know what else is massive?
Ya known what else’s massive?
You know you can put a free vm on it called VMware fusion. I have Mac OS 9 and x in it so I can still use freehand. And windows 11
Precisely! Liquid Glass-as Apple even said themselves-is the first major UI update since iOS 7. That came out over 10 years ago. The UI usually doesn’t change as much as it appears to in the Apple world.
@eliaszero852 your moth....
Just fyi, that anxiety over the price is intentional. It's an insidious psychology trick to ladder step you up the price chain and get you to spend more on higher end models.
apple has so much dark patterns in everything, everywhere, in software and hardware.
also to advertise a starting or base price, that configured that way is objectively useless and terrible.
Didn't work for the Mac mini M4: People are buying the base model like crazy and put their Home folder on a fast, external SSD - works like a charme … ;-)
However, it is unhelpful and stops sales. I needed 2TB space and it was $800 more, so I did n't go ahead with my order. For PC users, they seem to be mean with USB ports.
@hyperspace32 As long as the # of people who fall prey and spend more $ outnumber the amount of people in your situation, they'll continue to do it sadly.
I've used Windows since I was like 5 years old, CTRL+ALT+DELETE was like baked into my brain before middle school haha. I recently swapped from Windows to a Macbook Pro after my PC died, and it's been interesting for sure! Cool to see someone else's experience being a long-time Windows user, and switching to MacOS also!
iOS and macOS actually don't change every year, you just happened to join at a really interesting time. This is the first big visual update to iOS in a decade.
Also, you're talking about developer betas, not finished software. Rough to criticize something that's still in development and months away from release.
@joshuaoehler5796 She said that in the video
@joshuaoehler5796 she did mention that it was a beta and she willingly installed it, but I still think it's an interesting POV coming from a new apple user. Truth is, these couple of years haven't been Apple's best. I love Apple and have the whole ecosystem, but their focus seems off at the moment to me
To be fair she is not wrong with Apple introducing a new feature or design element not working properly and then never really fixing it. This happens all the time.
@lexyoyNot really
Kudos to you for dimming the bright webpages at 2:01 so it doesn't blind us viewers!
At the end, it almost sounds like you're preparing to make a UI Reimagining of a Linux distro. That'd be so cool.
For real that’d be really good and could give someone the idea to try and reproduce it 👀
And unlike previous videos, devs would more likely to implement her design
@saiv46 Devs don't necessarily need to be the ones to implement her designs. There are community made GTK and QT themes for both respective types of desktop environment.
Not to mention the rabbit hole that is Window Managers and it's other utilities. I saw one rice on r/unixporn recently that blows everyone's out of the water.
problem with that is Linux is so customizable there are so many things to choose from already haha. I think something like redesigning Gnome or KDE would be fun
Please
The learn-to-fix-it-yourself is so real. I messed up so many PCs and fixed so many other people's broken PCs.
Yep, but it's also great to know how.
So it's my first "learn-to-fix-it-yourself"
What happened is, I was using my laptop in the aeroplane and I saw that the windows had an update, so I decided to do it cuz I had nothing better to do. When it started up, it showed an error and then went to the GRUB recovery screen, and because of that, I'm on my mom's laptop
as someone who is about to switch from windows to macbook, this is the first video from multiple I've watched that was truly fun! I loved the cats, the narration, the real-ness of the entire experience, instead of someone speaking at what feels like 1,5x speed bombarding you with shortcut keys before you even know what's left and what's right. even the critique points felt constructive and didn't diminish my joy for the upcoming macbook or make me second-guess my decision!
ive been using windows for about 25 years lol got a macbook air m4 and lets just say that its now my daily driver for productivity and i have a gaming desktop with a 9800x3d+4090 (is this a flex still?). but for real tho, the macbook air is just perfect, got it for the ideal price too. its quiet, and does everything you need. the OS took me a bit to learn but honestly worth it. Also i found myself playing less games and actually being more of an adult? is that a weird thing to say? now i have to beg myself to go game a bit, like bro its ok to play some games :D LOL i still hate mac book. maybe. idk. anymore.
The narration gave me a headache. Why some creators have to speak at 200 mph is beyond me. The whole video was frantic and an assault on my ears. Having gone through all iterations of Windows from 3.1 to 10, dozens, if not more, of BSODs, lost hours on re-installs, corrupted HDs, and being able to cook a 3-course meal by the time Windows finally booted, I gave up and bought an MB Pro. I know people bemoan the Apple ecosphere, but it just works
@astrecksmuch rather the natural pace like this of a normal speaker than the horribly slow pace many videos are done at nowadays. I wont even watch if they speak too slow. Glad she spoke as fast as she did.
please dont.
I transitioned from Windows, with 17 years of experience, to Apple Laptop, iPhone, and iPad for over 4 years, then back to Windows on Desktop and Laptop, and Google Pixel. Honestly, the hardware is now sufficient for Windows users, meaning we have great CPUs and GPUs for productivity, not talking about gaming laptops, and it appears that Windows will continue to improve. I dislike being tied to a company ecosystem, unless it is a software one, not a hardware one. I dual-boot Windows and Linux on the same hardware and utilize WSL frequently.
No but I actually GASPED when you said 8 GB of RAM lmao
same
apple doesn't sell 8gb of ram minimum anymore, it is now 16gb standard
To be fair, I've had a MacBook with 8GB of RAM for some time and it's not really an issue, I do stuff with Blender and play Minecraft all the time. The fact that the hardware is manufactured specifically for that OS makes those 8 gigs go farther
@A_Dog_On_Mars same I have a 2020 MBP with 8gb of ram and it’s been flawless for all my work. I use parallels a lot for work and even that and even than it’s so smooth
after all the research too!
As a UI person myself, love the way you framed everything. I recently made a switch from Mac OS to Windows. Kinda changed the way I looked at design on the whole. Made me feel like risks are worth taking.
windows is just as bad and hard to customize UI wise like mac. only linux DEs are truly customisable sadly
@tbkswagg Debatable, and I'm an Arch Linux user btw.
@z_0968 It is bro, maybe macos is a bit more locked down. but there are custom taskbars for mac to and docks and widgets (like rainmeter for win) and thats all. icons can be customised for both. thats it kinda
@tbkswagg Windows is more customizable but you need 1 billion ancient drivers and 12 registry patches.
@Surplus_Softworks_Official Windows has been an iterative OS so far. Like a layered cake, building on itself with every release and bug fix, each layer changing the flavor profile. You have to put work into it, but can still dig up the old layer after some effort. MacOS is more like a base that you change the topping to every year. It's always the same cake, but you change the frosting to it, so there's no way to get to the "old" frosting. Yeah it's annoying to dig through a billion drivers from 2005, but at least I have the option to change things.
2:30 that is exactly what apple wants to achieve with their price laddering
After many decades of using computer, I have settled on having 3 OS at the same time. Windows for work, Macbook for laptop and portability, and Linux for all my servers. Really, I use all 3, but each for its strength.
Thats a lotta OS, baby!
I did the same for a year as well, it made me only select apps and programs that integrated between the 3, for example LocalSend. But in the end, this strategy from being my peace of mind that everything would work anywhere also gave me problems when going towards Graphic Design and Audio, which I finally settled on Windows back again, sold my MacBook and bought a Lenovo to keep working on those needed apps integrated between windows only devices
As somone who has a linux server and a Windows desktop, I just bought a macbook air so I could take it around and it has been amazing. I feel this heavy
The windows bug for overheating and battery drain while on sleep mode is the biggest flaw for windows as portable laptop. I have to keep it shut down when moving around.
For almost ten years, my life was macOS daily-driven on the laptop (2012 MacBook Pro (2nd gen) used from 2013 to 2023), Android daily-driven on my phone (various smartphones, usually every 1-2 years, with the exception of a Samsung Galaxy A8 that I used for a little over 5 years), and Linux for server stuff (used to daily-drive Ubuntu and Arch between 2010 and 2013, always used Ubuntu and Debian as server platforms). Now my laptop preference has shifted to ThinkPads (T14 line, OS of choice is currently PopOS 22.04).
It’s so surreal hearing someone describing picking out a PC as simple compared to picking out a Mac. And I say that as a Linux person of 20 years
I have actually experienced this as someone looking at a Mac purchase for the last 6 months. I’m tempted by the low price of the Mac mini but put off by having to buy keyboard and mouse and I want the apple ones but those are expensive, and my current display is not great but a good display is expensive, so a MacBook Air starts looking tempting, but I want pro motion so then I start looking at MacBook Pro but it’s mini led which has blooming so then the iPad Pro starts looking good because of the display but then you gotta get the keyboard and the nano texture display and before you know it you e gone from a 600 dollar setup to 3000 dollar setup. Then I just decide I don’t even need one I just want to experience Mac ownership. So I abandon the idea altogether for a month. Then start over again.
@Crs664just get the mini and use it with existing mouse and keyboard. Return or sell it if it doesn’t click. And btw an iPad can’t run macOS at all.
just get a air M3 base or pro m2 whichever is cheapest comparison wise in apple official refurbished and move on to actually feeling good about your laptop. nothing is better than having every piece of hardware designed by the same people that do your software. with the mini you're just going to feel half baked since you're not experiencing apple fully.
Macs on the face seem simple but get very confusing when you start comparing because you're locked into specific pre-manufactured machines, unlike windows where you can customize the hell out of it for your specific needs.
As someone who worked at an Apple store 15 years ago, I’m a bit confused at this conclusion. How is it complicated? Unless you are autistically overthinking it, there are a handful of models and it literally says on the label who each one is for. Lets say you are a designer - then you pick the pro line, and decide how much you are willing to pay. Thats it. When buying a mac, you gotta leave the pc thought process behind you and stop bargaining. No need to overthink specs, or ram or anything, you aint running JWST, whichever one you buy, you’ll be fine.
7:56 only 4gbs of swap? Rookie, i hit 40gbs once
0:13 I see what you did there. 😂
MacOS Vista is gorgeous
Haha, totally didn't notice that on the first watch. x)
You beat me to it.😂😂😂
😆
12:58 This has been said so many times by so many people, not only for apple products but samsung, game devs, so many companies fall into this ideology which isn't prefered by the customers in the long run
Yes I agree to this too
off topic but i love how the iris is the same contrast so if you use a gradient map it looks like it's connected to the other half
13:55 yay my favourite UI youtuber trying arch, the rices will go extra hard
The harvest will be bountiful
🍚@mexomenti
*favorite deriving from the Latin word favor and the English word favorite that because “haha peasants” was changed to that retarded form.
@mexomenti We are going to have a feast brotha!!!
breath of fresh air
seeing and hearing a narrating video where it doesnt focus on negativity
4
there were lots of negatives tho.
AIR BY YEJI!?
This video was extremely relatable, appreciate the amount of detail you gave at each step of your own journey!
13:15 YESSS! THISSS!!!
Bog and Juxtopposed are my favourite tech youtubers that I look forward to their videos
Bog mentionned = w
I like how bog does everything the wrong way
@xulqarnaenit pmo fr
@xulqarnaenIt's infuriating sometimes though.
They have to be the same person
As an Apple person, I totally agree. I feel like the company is focusing more on quantity over quality, in terms of having to come up with something new every year or "reimagine" as you said. It's only been getting more annoying to see Apple release new iPhone's each year that is very little different from the previous, at this point I don't even bother upgrading for several generations until my current phone starts feeling old.
I don't understand why Apple gets singled out for this. Car and TV manufacturers also release yearly updates that are usually extremely minor. Nobody is making you buy the new iPhone. What you're really saying is that they make phones that last several years, only making minor improvements over time. How the hell is that a bad thing?
If you are changing your phone every year, the problem is not the company but your compulsion to get the latest and greatest. The average iPhone user upgrades every 3/4 years which is the average cycle of iPhone.
@effusivefugitive perfect example. I am an Apple fanboy but I don't upgrade every year, I wait till my phone starts to slow down and most important is paid off and get a great deal on trading in. Now why do people who want the latest and greatest think they are the majority of consumers ? They are the minority and do not represent the average consumer.
Definitely give Arch linux a try. Your Linux rice would go crazy
Omg yes
Rice would be amazing I bet but as someone who uses a Linux on desktop for many years it just not there for design currently. There are alternatives but most professionals are used to their workflow (windows or Mac software) usually. I use Linux for development as my main job and keep a windows install dual booted for gaming and windows programs.
please. I'm begging you.
@adreto2978What about Krita, Inkscape, Blender and davinci resolve? And Figma is a web App. Seems to me as all apps apart from Photoshop have good alternatives on Linux
yeah she could go over both gnome and kde! one is like mac, other is more like windows
It’s so interesting to me as a lifelong Mac user that you went straight to right clicking on stuff in the Dock to do things like quitting apps instead of looking in the menu bar for the Quit option. Growing up with Macs, they didn’t have 2 mouse buttons so contextual menus were something I learned about later on. So, always interesting to see what new users notice about something you’re super familiar with. I 100% agree with your conclusion though, we don’t need full redesigns every year. Nowadays they don’t even fix the bugs in the last update before releasing a new one and it’s getting worse every year. The line must go up! Great video!
i was in the same situation as jux and that was the first thing i noticed as well, i genuinely tell you that the first hotkey I learned for mac was the cmd + q for fully closing the apps, and TO THIS DAY, it still bugs me that you CAN'T CLOSE THE FINDER TAB, that white circle haunts me in my sleep
@hrcoding That's because the desktop in part of Finder.
@joshuaoehler5796Yeah, I know, that's the wild part, still after a year feels counterintuitive to me
@hrcoding yeah they should just have that based on if a search folder is open
@theuserofdoomif you quit finder there’s no way to reopen it 😅
I stumbled on your channel, nice job. I've been using PCs since the IBM PC/XT days, but I'm now on a Mac Studio, for a variety of reasons. I'm loving the integration of my iPhone and Mac. I also love not seeing advertisements baked into the operating system either
I'm a life-long Windows user, once I switched jobs a year and a half ago I requested my workplace for a Mac laptop because 1) I was curious about how that part of the OS world worked, 2) I'm a software developer and I wanted something closer to Linux without all the problems that come from actually using Linux, and 3) my Windows workstation laptop at my previous job suuuucked. Experiencing MacOS was definitely a very cool experience. It's fast, it's beautiful, it's nearly silent, the track pad is amazing, and I like how a lot of things just *work*, but at the same time it's been infinitely frustrating. Why does the Finder suck so bad when it comes to file management? Why is the first response online to me wanting to slightly change how something works always somewhere along the lines of "this is the Apple™ way, get used to it"? And window management is so much worse than on Windows, I like having several apps open on one screen because I have ADHD and really bad short-term memory, and arranging them the way I want is really slow and annoying.
All in all I don't regret trying MacOS out, and I think it's a fantastic developer laptop operating system, but I can't see myself ever using it as my personal daily driver. There are just too many things I miss from Windows in terms of how I like to set up my workflows, even for all its faults.
Any issue you have, I guarantee there’s multiple solutions on r/macapps. The Mac dev community is extremely underrated. There’s so many fantastic window management apps and all of them feel like a native part of macOS
TRUE AND ALASO XIAO PFP WOAH
Making Finder useful as a file manager is possible, and it can be done without digging into .plist files. I turn on the Toolbar, Path Bar, and Status Bar from the View menu, and in Show View Options I set Open in List View and Browse in List View, show columns Date Modified, Size, and Kind, with no grouping, enable Use Relative Dates and only enable Calculate All Sizes if you're on NVMe using APFS-formatted volumes, then click Use As Defaults at the bottom of the pane.
Window management has generally been a joke compared to Windows ever since I think Win7, but thankfully it's mostly fixed in Sequoia and essentially at parity with macOS 26 Tahoe, coming out later this year. Do not run the .0 unless it's either got a specific feature you need or the reported bugs are in things you don't use or can live with; I admin the silly things and always wait for at least the .1 release for anything remotely production, and that includes the machine on which I'm typing this.
@himekospizzacutter2010 I haven't played genshin in years haha, quit right before they added inazuma, but it was fun while it lasted!
Yeah, unlike Windows, Mac OS isn't really designed for multitasking with as many windows and apps open. It's designed for more of a focused workflow, which is why I never stuck with it and went back to Windows.
4:15 yayyy! browser video comin!
Its like i am listening my own story every each detail match with me
Wow, since the beginning of the video until 1:40, it's all EXACTLY IDENTICAL TO MY EXPERIENCE. I was like a rewind to my own life, damn.
Stumbled upon your video as being a lifelong Mac user. I found your perspective to using Mac so refreshing and this was a really enjoyable video. Suscribed.
The WWDC where they present the new updates, is one of the best times in the year. Im always so excited
There is a misunderstanding. Apple does update its software every year, but usually at very small rates. This size of redesign in 2025 happens once a decade.
This may be a bit of a wild suggestion, but how about trying to use something like a Quest 3 or other virtual reality headset as a workstation? Surely video editing will be flawless (clueless)
i'll *try* lol
@juxtopposed dont unless you plan on going down the rabbit hole of some of the worst UX crimes commited by lizards (meta)
@Ivwin Have you watch this channel before? Exploring bad UX and re-designing them, must be one @juxtopposed favorite past times.
I had quite the opposite computing experience, I'm somewhat nostalgic for old Mac OS X, I still boot up my old 2008 macbook pro from time to time.
I absolutely love your explorative nature and your curiousity! It's really commendable. Another thing that's really praiseworthy is how your storytelling and your videos are so amazing! Not For once did I feel uninterested or bored throughout your whole video. And captivating attention like that, and telling stories so well like that, that is a huge talent that a lot of other youyubers don't have.
Penguin is waiting for you😅
I had a similar journey some years back, never looked back. Now every time I have to help someone with their Windows computer it's so painful, I can't believe I put up with it for so long.
This was one of the best OS switch videos I've ever seen. I recall going through that experience back in mid 2000s and after a while, I got used to focus on what I wanted to do rather than "wanting to do it the way I did it in Windows". Many features are unique to the platform, like navigating with List View and expanding folders along with files, or dragging a folder to Save windows to change the destination and to me the biggest one that I don't have to "maintain the OS" anymore and can actually focus on what I want to do. Linux is awesome too, just choose your distribution wisely.
Every OS is fine, as long as you're okay with it.
Just choose your poison wisely....
Windows and Android have changed radically way more often than iOS and macOS have lol.
06:43 Congrats Apple got you...
they are better than any brands integration for ecosystem, if the experience is good, can you even say they got you?
@ネイチャーウォーカー no no no.... *forgets how ecosystem is actually pronounced because of jux*
It's funny how similar our experiences are. In the end I went back to windows because I couldn't stand the fact that I couldn't upgrade and fix my own hardware.
Well, then you are a "work on the computer" person. If you are a "work with the computer" person, MacOS would be your preference.
@Andreas_Straub that is just not true. more like work FOR the computer
@saidialifajr504 You can cut files, the window management is now super flexible in Tahoe. Other things may sometimes be different, but who tells you, the way Windows does it, is best? It is a matter of flexibility and the willingness to learn that makes the difference and is the way to better solutions.
@GraveUypo that is also true 🤣
@GraveUypo not really. mac is really easy to work with especially for coding and a lot of mac-optimized software like adobe. I'd say with windows, setting up wsl/ssh or doing a lot of software stuff requires setting up things tailored to a linux environment or tailored to a specific setup you have, which is you working for the computer.
I disagree with the amount of “change every year” I recently switched wholesale to macOS recently again after a two decades. Last version I used was snow leopard.
Took me minimal time to get adjustaed, the overall concepts of the dock, the launchpad etc hasn’t changed at all
Nice, Honest review with early issues overcome.👍
12:36 I think we have our face reveal...
Is that even a a picture she made
good observation but nah
Im Not sure Weather she is it or not but in This „Photos“ Window in Windows there Are only pictures You have on youre device and I dont see why she would have this Photo just sitting there might also just be Family members of her. But sick that you caught it
I started using computers with Windows 98 from the early 2000s, used all versions of Windows until Windows 8.1, and then I moved to Mac (Yosemite). I used Mac for 8-9 years, and now I've settled in Linux with my own custom desktop. I wouldn't go back to either Windows or macOS.
I have a similar path, but I stay with macOS because there are no applications for Linux.
@CodySmiley Depending on the use case, this can be an issue. For me, the transition was smooth, except for the photo editing app. I still miss Pixelmator Pro, and I can't get used to GIMP (GIMP has one of the most unintuitive user experiences I have ever seen).
@xali2008 what's your experience throwing photoshop or pixelmator in via a virtual machine holding windows install or through the native WINE wrapping?
@Haiyami photoshop through Wine is ass.
@CodySmiley Same. Capture One, Logic Pro and FCP are the apps I would miss the most. And the Finder is quite usable as soon as you know all the keyboard shortcuts in list and column view - I rarely need to use the mouse for navigation, opening, copying or moving files etc.
3:44 F1 FAN DETECTED
I was gonna say 😅
KIMI NO AIBA GA
I dont get it
@YassinShaikhoun-w3o In the top right there's info about an upcoming F1 race in Austin, TX.
She thought long and hard and settled on 8GB RAM 😭
I had the SAME, EXACT journey. Windows master race for 30 years, Mac M4 comes out, base 16GB RAM. I need a productivity machine. I want a good camera that isn't a DSLR, get iPhone, get Mac..Ecosystem, continuity. I love it and I will probably never go back to Windows. I work with Windows at my tech job and I hate it so very much.
I had a similar journey some years back, never looked back. Now every time I have to help someone with their Windows computer it's so painful, I can't believe I put up with it for so long.
I work with MacOS (because of my job) and I hate it so very much.
@oTBpaTuTko I love it, I work with Windows for my job and I absolutely abhor it.
@oTBpaTuTko Why please explain
@oTBpaTuTko LMAO same, I try to like it but its kind of hard to describe. Like its very complicated to do something simple sometimes. MacOS ALMOST got me but, then i realized that transferring files was a pain in the ass. Also so other things as well.
Great Video it definitely reminds me when I switched from windows to Mac it was very confusing at first but ended up loving it!
This was the sanest positive review of Apple Ecosystem I have watched, you're probably one of the only person who would like to explore other OSs after using Apple, this is crazy
She isn't gonna let u hit bro
@jajajajajaja867🥀🗣️🔥💀
many, many developers (and most all gamers) want to explore other operating systems after using Apple. MacOS is a bit limiting but very nifty, however iOS is straight-up hobbled and it's absolutely infuriating to a long-term Android user. I ended up having to daily drive my spare iPhone SE 2022 and it's a worse mobile experience for my very common use cases than what I had with a mid-class Xperia from 2011. Apart from the hot mess of an inconsistent UX, it's incredible how much it can suck as soon as you want to do anything even the tiniest step outside of what Apple decided is good for their bottom line. :/
@martinkrauser4029 just window snapping itself, the lack thereof on Mac, is driving me insane, and I don't want to use a third party app for every single feature that is missing on Mac
@jajajajajaja867 ????????????
honestly, throughout this, you mentioning the things you liked I was all like: So many linux desktop environments, window managers are just so customizable or have things you have liked in macOS just there.
Like you will love them. There are communities of people just customizing these and it's just so cool to see.
PS: the steam linux support is very extensive. it is nice to not have to dual boot into an OS that is as annoying to use as windows just to play games.
ok this is my favorite video ever because i did a similar switch in 2020. i had an intel then got a m3 machine with an m4 mini recently. life changing.
you should definitely try linux next
as a proud linux user, you are my #1 enemy now.
those macos icons look cool af. seen your videos on my recomened for the past year never clicked on one video til this one
13:03 As somebody who's been using MacOS for multiple decades now (also Unix/Linux/Windows too, but primarily MacOS), yes, they should take a tik-tok approach to updates. Meaning give us a new release every year sure, but make one of them a real update and the other a touch-up of bugs and quality of life improvements.
I thought you meant Tik tok like the Chinese app 😬
yeah but they do the bugs fixes and minor improvements constantly
@Suaveza I don't mean the little .dot releases. I mean go full on like they did with Snow Leopard.
The thing people seem to forget is the updates aren’t always mandatory. They support older versions still after the major update is done.
@Underestimated37 Yes, very true, still have a few old Macs on older MacOS versions, and they still get security updates.
The app community does seem to move along to new OS versions relatively quickly tho. So there's a bit of a forcing function to update to the newer MacOS depending on which software you use.
7:42 What is up with the pronunciation of 'swap'? Swap rhymes with stop.
this is a really good honest review of the system and I'm here for it
I usually recommend to skip betas in apple products since apple tends to change stuff a lot so you dont need to get used to the changes they tend to roll out quite frequently especially during the dev betas all the time.
For me personally i entirely switched to the apple ecosystem for quite a while now after actively avoiding it for many years. I do still own a windows machine for gaming but everything else is on apple by now
Arch Linux isn’t a real OS - it’s a framework for chaos. It breaks the Linux ecosystem more than it builds it. Every time someone says ‘I use Arch btw,’ a new half-baked distro is born and consistency dies a little more.
You might have made your worst mistake yet, good luck
@Meyus_ how
@GrandAdminralThrawn-Vari-gh4mu "I use Arch" = Rickrolling for the 2020's!
8:36 how tf did u customize the icons like that, pls tell me
I would like to know also
Open finder, go to applications, select an application but don't open it, and hit command i. Afterwards, you can find free icon files for apps and drag them into the default app icon which will change it. I believe @MacVince has a video about customization where it is featured with a guide.
Great video. Really in-depth
*thinking if i should try MacOS while watching on a MacOS*
2:30 that's how they get ya "if I only spend a little bit more I'll get this... oh but then if I spend just a little bit more I'll get this!" meanwhile the base is all you really need. And if you get anything higher you're spending way more than you wanted to.
Yeah, almost fell into that trap. Just got a base M5 Macbook Pro, temping to get more power but then I realized that even the base absolutely destroys my 8 year old laptop it's replacing. And I'm very happy with it's snappiness and plenty of power for what I do.
This was a great, positive video! :) Happy I found you/ this
Ex-Apple Employee here, and an exclusive MacOS user from 2004 to 2018. I switched back to Windows precisely because Apple kept changing things every year. I'm all for improvements, but there were pointless changes that just ended up causing pain every year, meanwhile long standing bugs that were hurting productivity (like one where Apple Mail stops getting new mail after a while) remained unfixed for over a decade. At the end of the day a phone, a computer, a tablet, as well as being an entertainment device, is also a tool, and I need that tool to work predictably all the time. This used to be what Apple was great at, but somewhere around 2014 that changed.
I have been trying to find the right words to explain this exact concept to people, after watching them struggle to find their way around their phones/computers year after year.
Apple's insatiable desire to tweak things that were already fine, coupled with their knack for simplifying the UX to the point of hindering functionality, makes modern macOS/iOS feel clunky, childish, and inefficient. It always felt to me like they leaned on design/feature tweaking when they ran out of innovative ideas or progressive solutions to users' problems.
At some point it matters more that the thing just works, which to your point about the shift, was originally Apple's forte!
@bobbyjarsulic862 Yup, and for all his problems, Steve Jobs did a good job of keeping Apple on the right track. It wasn't long after he died that things started to slip.
Fucking Tim Cook, that’s what happened. An ops focused ceo doesn’t work for apple in terms of customer experience, but it does great for increasing profits
They just removed launchpad in Mac OS 26 😭😭😭
@bobbyjarsulic862 MacPro, Mac BookPro, etc to this day does not properly allow me to connect my galaxy phone to it so i can pull off photos and video footage to edit easily. Transferring files is god damn slow, and it's just not pleasant to use. Mac OS may feel nice and snappy, but it's all about keeping you in the Apple ecosystem only. And any software or hardware you want to use that is outside of the ecosystem or compatibility list will make your life a living hell. I was debating about going back to windows for my editing machine, but I'm not too keen on windows 11 and all it's....well...junk. So I'm opting for going for a Linux build and move over to da vinchi resolve and maybe throw photoshop in a VM for photo work. I'd use gimp but it can't compare to photoshop tools. So far I've used every OS so far and for my work I find every OS now having something that is incredibly frustrating about it. Windows crashes, Mac doesn't like third party hardware or software that isn't vetted by them much, and Linux just doesn't have any repos for Adobe software.
The way you say "swap" shakes me to my core
you mean the _correct_ way? the fact that some people pronounce it "swop" is another matter.
@ytfeelslikenorthkorea No, it's not the "correct" way, it's the American way. American-English is the Temu of languages, a cheap knockoff of the original English language.
@----.__ American English is closer to middle English than every other major dialect grouping.
@dontworry1302 Who are you trying to fool? Yourself? A cursory search online even dispels your ridiculous claims!
That and “Echo-system” instead of “Eeee-cosystem”
can't wait to watch you redesign the beautiful arch installer
4:15
zen and arc referenced, subscribed.
arc is dead, long live zen !
isnt zen extremely bad with privacy? or am i remembering wrong?
@lubb213 I think you are confusing something. The Zen Browser is just a FOSS community project built on top of Firefox that explicitly states privacy as one of their main goals, not a big company behind it
@lubb213 Zen is just Firefox but cleaner, so I don't know where this could be from.
@lubb213 I think Firefox is pretty safe. The browser itself is also open source.
Damn.. I’m considering getting my first MacBook and what you went through in this video is pretty much my experience as well! Thanks for the video!
Apple redesigns only every 5+ years, in fact the existing iOS interface has been relatively untouched for almost if not more than a decade
Both get yearly updates but it’s mostly ui refinements and features, then every 5+ years they may do a redesign, you just happen to come in at the a time when a new design was being about to be introduced
they're doing redesigns every year, it's only that most of them are subtle and maybe not in things you use everyday so you don't really notice
@DonDregon That's not a redesign, that's a tweak.
Arch Linux isn’t a real OS - it’s a framework for chaos. It breaks the Linux ecosystem more than it builds it. Every time someone says ‘I use Arch btw,’ a new half-baked distro is born and consistency dies a little more.
5:44 And what about GNOME?
2e dont eay the cursed word
this year i got my first macbook, but ive always used an iphone. So my impressions is that things flow really great on apple (more than windowns) but you got the sense that you can only do the apple way, feels like you are not free to use your notebook as you would. So i moved back to windowns and omg i miss it so much lol
Should've waited a year more.. now everything is 16 gb base ram 😭😭 poor gurl
Do Gnome, KDE and Hyprland next! Distro literally doesn't matter. A distro is just a different set of defaults and different built in package manager.
If you do hyprland you can just release the dotfiles.
Pleaseeee she need to look at them from an ui perspective
Distros DO matter! They can change so much from the defaults, making the UI behave differently. Take Gnome as an example: Ubuntu changes the dash to a sidebar and make the app icons open a full-screen selector if you have two windows from the same app are open. Whereas Fedora keeps the Default.
@Sorvetedchocolatyou just demonstrated how it doesn't matter and is just a different set of defaults. You can replicate what Ubuntu does with dash to dock and a few more gnome extensions which is exactly what Ubuntu does by default. Exactly what I said in my original comment. I think she has enough expertise to toggle a gnome extension in her browser. These are surface level differences, easily replicable across ALL distros.
Here is when distro does matter. Their philosophy and package repository.
Debian has a very different philosophy from Arch which has a different approach from NixOS.
@shApYT Can you explain what you mean by philosophy and package repository differences in a greater detail. I don't quite understand.
5:20
you can execute terminal commands to add a blank app icon to the dock, there is even one that creates "half" of an icon. I use it to separate planning, consuming, and social apps.
You should try to fully use linux next.
definitely
@juxtopposed after Linux, try use *red star OS* (north Korean computer operating system)
@OrlandoLarkinswhich is still linux if iirc
@OrlandoLarkins nah use bsd instead
@juxtopposedvanilla gnome and kde are a must try, it would also be cool if you tried the cosmic desktop environment as it's still in alpha so it's the one that most needs critique and are more likely to listen to you. Finally you could try to create your perfect desktop using a wm like hyprland
This is Absolute Cinema
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really helpful video for an all time windows user thinking of getting a mac
I've used windows my entire life as well, and switched to linux at the start of this year, and also had to start using macOS because of work
Linux is by far my favorite one, there's nothing in it that feels limiting, everything can be done (with the only exception being visual pinball, i CANNOT get that one to work). I personally use CachyOS, a fork of arch :)
I still get annoyed by macOS not closing whenever i close it, it feels like an unnecessary extra step to always "quit" it, and it drives me insane. You can't customize such basic things as being able to right click with a bottom right touchpad click and a double finger tap, despite having both options avaliable exclusively
I wish I could switch to linux but adobe not supporting it is a nail in the coffin for a full switch for me :( so windows it is for me for now eh.
Hearing "Apple" and "more customisbale" in the same sentence makes me chuckle
Love your video! This video just feels like mine - I used Windows for last 25 years or more, I was the only girl in a class studying computer science, fixing everyones laptop, coding, building websites - 2 kids later and I feel I have no capacity for all that, my brain is overwhelmed and I enjoy simple stuff. However, I'm still a geek, loving technology so I got myself a new Macbook this week to fit my iPhone, iPad and airpods enviroment. Watching videos how Macbook works for last three days but I am already loving it :D
0:14 I love how you poked fun at macos 26
You mean macOS vista 😂
“I don’t hate Apple “
DONT LISTEN TO THE LINUX ARCH PEOPLE, JUST TRY MINT PLEASE
arch people, i know you love what you can do with it, but please, we dont need another video of someone saying how complicated Linux is because they tried the hardest form with little previous exposure
so true rhey should start with gentoo so they can pick what they like
Yes! Arch installation is okay but later you have to hand pick every package, learn how to configure some of them, read tons of Arch wiki pages... Just use Mint.
100% absolutely agree. mint is what most people want from linux. started with mint and ... never left. because it's just exactly what i wanted.
It doesn't sound like they're new to linux, they mentioned using ubuntu multiple times.
There are several arch based just werks distors. manjaro, endeavour os to name a few. heck you can have arch installed with cinnamon. I think Linux mint is cool af tho its not my cup of tea I liked gnome better and xfce
I made the switch from PC to Mac Mini a few months ago and I am very happy. I also switched a couple of my old ThinkPad laptops that I have scattered around the house over to Linux. They now boot wicked fast. I'm even happier now.
I tried Apple: a Windowless Prison for a Year.
More like a garden of Eden. A utopia where you can look over the fence and be sickened watching the poor scavengers using Linux.
Fedora is a distro with a very clean UI, I just started daily driving it after migrating from windows.
If you're on Fedora Gnome and eventually become ready for sth new, give Fedora KDE a try.
90% of your favorite customization things are already available at your settings, and the 10% is a simple `sudo dnf install kvantum -y` away.
The experience is so good that, even after trying, i haven't been able to get away from it for 7 years (yes, I'm a newbie).
How is Fedora working for you now? I just did an update about 2 weeks ago and now I can't access any of my software or install new apps because of a bug caused by the last update.
@AvalancheMan Well idk it works fine on my side, I would recommend downloading something called appimage launcher , designate a folder for them and then any app image you want place it in that dinner,
The only problems I had was if I broke something myself.
I'm working on a gaming windows VM and piece by piece it gets better, did not test games tho.
Got the GPU passthrough, looking glass done, now it's time to optimize it and make it less and less detectable.
@sihiliusYou reformat the USB stick? That's old fashioned, get yourself a ventoy USB, all isos inside one USB.
@sihiliuswhat went wrong anyway?
Love that curiosity 💯
Personally, my favorite OS is windows 10. It looks serious, expensive, reliable and yet customizable enough. I don't like mac OS stuff, but don't like windows 11 neither, because... It's soo laggy! These animations, oh, how I hate them. The animation timing function is so wrong, it makes me feel that my pc is lagging all the time, so I disabled animations completely, it became a little better, but God, Microsoft really sucks at design, because many things are just buggy. Unfortunately, they don't really care about UX (as a web dev I have literally all the Microsoft websites). And I don't know what to do. There's no way back to windows 10 because lack of support, windows 11 just horrible (mostly), mac is not my thing, linux... well... I don't want to have problems installing things. No options, just endless suffering.
try arch linux
i shall
One of the most relatable videos I found !
10:30 I completely agree, personally, i don't like macOS but i do love IOS, so i have an iPhone, iPad, but a windows 11 computer, i feel like mixing them isn't even that bad!
as a full Apple ecosystem user, that's fine but for work having the full integration really helps!
7:28 Old iPhone models are better than new ones.
No they’re not. Take off the rose coloured glasses.
Some of them, but i get your point
@brantgg3804FaceID sucks.
Touch ID ftw!
And it’s not even close
Your voice on this mic n eq is heaven 🧚
2:00 - Buying a Mac is FAR easier than buying a PC. You only have to decide between Apple, Apple, or Apple. With a PC you have two different main CPU makers, three different GPU makers with like 15 different vendors of actual cards. Then your hard drive and ram decisions aren't just how much but which brand, which pairings, which speeds which ones will actually work on the mainboard you've picked. And many vendors of mainboards who are also basically the same ones who sell the GPU cards...So still a lot. I've been a PC guy for 30+ years and I'm dreading my next purchase because I just don't want to wade into that pool again.
All I see is skill issue.
Lack of repairability and the option to upgrade parts is a huge turn off. Not to mention how restrictive the OS is that it makes it harder for you to try and fix it yourself.
And you can be sure that the fans are quiet. You can't with PCs (especially those small bricks, that are still larger than a Mac mini, even though having an external power supply).
can't switch parts you want, and seeing this from a gaming perspective, it just doesn't make sense. If you're just using a work pc or mac, then yes, that makes incredible sense. Depends on usage I guess.
6:58 hey btw samsung and windows work pretty well together, you can do the cross platform copy paste, quick share files between them (airdrop equivalent) which works better in some cases, you can also do the open phone in a small window thing, or just see all the messages and notifications in the phone link app on windows.....all of this launched on windows before the macos implementation and works pretty well on samsungs compared to other androids cus of samsung and microsoft tie-ups i suppose....the samsung ecosystem has come pretty far and kinda offers the apple seamlessness without feeling locked into a wall garden.....btw i use a samsung s23fe and asus tuf f15 ( a literal gaming laptop lol ) and it works pretty well together....i use them together so much...luv it
How do you do the cross platform copy paste?
It's not just the same.
@gdozzywhat features does apple have that android/windows/Linux don't in the ecosystem area?
Yeah, the windows phone link thingy is surprisingly good now, just wish it was more polished..
U just enable it in the phone link app on windows... it works on samsung idk about other androids...i heard oppo works and motorola have their own new app@wbeel