Switching From Windows to Mac OS // 10 Differences You Need to Know About!

Hey everyone, here are the 10 most prominent differences I've noticed while switching from a Windows Laptop to a MacBook Pro. If you're also thinking about switching between operating systems then this video will help you see what you might miss when switching over. I hope this helps! :)

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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - 1. Reliability
2:39 - 2. Secondary Click
4:25 - 3. Keyboard
5:03 - 4. Apple Ecosystem
6:49 - 5. Multitasking
7:49 - 6. Control Center
8:49 - 7. Spotlight Search
9:44 - 8. Applications
11:19 - 9. Closing Applications
12:32 - 10. Backspace/Delete Button
13:48 - Outro

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[michelletaylor]

For the control centre issue on Windows, click on the wifi symbol at the bottom right of the screen, it has access to all of the often used settings, eg bluetooth and wifi connections, sound, brightness etc. Windows has more on it than you realise.

[dekockemil]

To totally quit an app on Mac, press command and Q. I'm also new to Mac and love it.

[sreeharsha]

I had switched to Mac for 6 months. I agree with the first part regarding hardware/ecosystem etc. Great machines and huge respect. However, I found the usability is very challenging. Confusion with Command button and Option buttons, delete/backspace keys, basic Window management made me very tiresome. I could not wait to start using Windows again. Now, I am back on Windows, I appreciate these even more.

[nowaboutthatpod]

For the multitasking on the Mac, I recently found out that if you hover over the green circle you get the option for split screen. It was the hardest thing for me to get used to when I got my Mac and still work with an HP for work. Once I figured this out, it has really improved my productivity with my Mac.

[nightowl]

I've decided I have use for both. After using Windows for decades, I finally bought a Mac, and while I do like some things more, it doesn't do everything better. I never "Saw the light, " and suddenly felt a need to completely ditch Windows. I am quite impressesed by the hardware though.

[thecolorblindlefty]

Multitasking:
If you full screen two windows, you can do the trackpad gesture 3 finger push up and then drag the windows together to put them together. You are limited to 2 windows though.

Closing Apps:
I always use command Q to close apps, it’s even faster than clicking the red dot.

Also trackpad gestures make everything faster along with all the keyboard shortcuts. I also like command w to close the window I am currently in in the case that I have several windows open for one application.

[dannestrom]

On the Mac you can also backspace (or forward delete) a word at a time, by holding shift (and option) and backspace. Experiment a lot with the option key. It can be really useful sometimes, either in combination with keys like backspace, but also in combinations with keyboard shortcuts (command key).

[coltonrobinson]

For settings you use often, you know there is a "quick action" center on the lower right. You can even edit what you use most so it technically beats MacOS.

[thestranger]

Fire video. Hit all the right points.

I came to this video searching for how to complete all equivalent shortcuts of Windows on a Mac. Ex: alt+tab vs cmd+tab to swap between recent windows and what the differences are.

It’d be cool if you did a video like that. Anyway, liked your content.

[adanmirandaespindola]

For the "Delete" Key you can use either fn + backspace or Ctrl + D, macOS relies heavily on keyboard modifications on order to map a lot of functions, tip: on any application with the mouse click on any menu (try with File and Edit) and while the options are visible press and hold Option, Shift or both and you'll get extra options that you can invoke from the menu or rely on keyboard shortcuts only

[TheAtticradio]

Good to hear ! about to get a Mac M2 … having a hot key to close apps is important

[OldAussieAds]

As a long time user of macOS (and many years using Windows too), I can answer why macOS doesn't fully quit when you click the red button. The issue generally only occurs when the application in question is document focused and is related to macOS using a universal menu bar. So take Photoshop as a good example. This is a big application that can take up to 10 seconds to open - maybe longer on older Macs. You then touch up the first of many photos you want to fix. When you click the red button, how does macOS know you are done with Photoshop just because you're closing one document? If I'm a professional photographer, I might be working on hundreds of photos in a row - I don't want Photoshop to have to quit and then start up again with each document I close and open. So the red button closes the *document* and keeps the application Photoshop open until you tell it you're done (by going to the application menu and choosing Quit - or better yet, Command-Q).

The Windows behavior is certainly more straight forward for novice users (I used to train people new to the Mac and I saw people trip up on this constantly), but it's frustrating for power users. My advice is to get in the habit of quitting applications properly when you're done. But honestly you probably don't have to stress. A modern computer has enough resources to have many applications open at once.

Oh and I agree with you about the behavior of the green button. I'm not a fan of full screen mode on the Mac. I'm sure it makes sense for certain workflows but it's not for me. So I option click the green button - that gives you the behavior you want. I would love it if you could change this to be the default behavior.

[parkleereac]

thank you, your perspective is very helpful.

[A]

Command+Q to close the window & FN (function) + backspace to delete forward. Shift+Option+brightness up/down to make small adjustments you can also use it with the volume buttons.

[lizzypeer]

It's great to hear this from someone else that's a long time windows user. I'm still on Windows 10, but because updates for it are supposed to be stopped, I know I need to go to either 11 (which last time I saw last year there's still bugs with it) or mac OS. I'm choosing to keep my current computer and my sister is going to get me this mac mini. It'll give me the chance to try mac outside of my sister's big Imac. And as my sister has a photography business, it'll make things so much more easier to share things. My sister on mac has always had issues sharing things to me on windows. I'm watching as much as I can about mac and mac mini.

[casvandijk]

Since MacOS is so power efficient it's not necessary to complete shut down an app when you close it... It's actually more power efficient to close the window and keep the app running to later open it up again from RAM then it is to completely shut it down... On an Apple device you only ever need to shut down an app when it's bugging out, same as the device itself, MacOS (and iOS) is so power efficient that it's only needed to completely shut down the machine when there's a bug, sleep mode does a ton of 'maintenance' while preserving as much power as possible to ensure a fast experience when the device is in use, only shut down apps when they're acting weird and only power cycle your Apple device when you're experiencing bugs...

[SariParkinsonMetabolicHealth]

Useful video. Thanks so much. Great job.

[timcarlos]

Regarding how the red button in a window macOS works, my guess is that you also feel that you must force close every Recent app from your iPhone & iPad, rather than let the OS manage them.

[adanmirandaespindola]

If you have an application that is able to handle multiple windows (documents) then you can close all of them the main process will kept opened that is by OS design with this you have a single process to work with different documents.

Some applications do not need this feature, so it's on the developer to inform the OS to close completely the process when you close the "main window", you shown on your video Spotify... (well they didn't care about this scenario).

I think this feature have some inconsistencies but is better approach and more resources friendly than spawning a new process for a different document each time

[Travmf]

They talk about the ecosystem being bad for locking you into their products, but seem to not consider the fact that maybe people actually WANT to be in the ecosystem