I Switched To Mac, After 15 Years of Windows (BRUH)

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I’ve been a pretty dedicated Windows user for about 15 years now but for many many reasons, I decided to switch to a Mac. A M1 Macbook Pro 14. I didn't expect much. But holy damn.

It's been one year I can quite honestly say that it has changed my life. Never in my life did I think I’d find myself saying that. This video will go into a bit about my journey with both Windows and Mac and why in my OPINION, I'll stay with one for a very very long time. It's not really a review, but I hope I could provide you with a good story, and of course - some memes.

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Outro:
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shushubobo - how to make tang hu lu

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:17 Context: The Age Old Question
2:13 My Journey With Windows
3:46 My Mac Experience
5:56 What I miss from Windows
8:48 Conclusion

[sbarneaionut]

I felt what you felt now in 2021 when I got my M1 Air, literally the best laptop at that time. Sooo many use cases where it just did the job brilliantly. Is still in daily use today and yes, still quick, does not overheat, NO fan and still around 16-17 hrs battery life in light tasks or consuming media.

[aashish]

Fun fact: The finder icon is not a smiley face. The right part is a human face and the left part is a computer screen. It doesn't look like that now but it was significant in the previous versions of the logo.

[himynameisryan]

until the m1 MacBook Air, i never owned a Mac. now i own an m3 Max 16-inch macbook pro. because of this i switched to iphone and every other apple device. are there problems? yes. 100%
i still have a pc for gaming

[bibasik]

I LOVE the green button!

Making an app fullscreen using the green button puts it into a new virtual desktop, and I can switch between virtual desktops with a three finger swipe to the left or right. I've been using MacBooks for 7 years, and the three finger swipe gesture feels as natural as walking, I don't have to think about it.

[wayne]

I swapped to M1 a year before you. My work Windows laptop constantly reminds me of what I don't miss about Windows machines so I don't see myself missing it anytime soon.

[jonathandavis]

this is incredible. You hit so many weird problem/quirks that annoy the hell out of me with mac os, like the scroll being backwards with mice. But you also hit on why I like macs at the same time. We must have the same thought process or something

[BaielAbdulin]

To use multitasking at the Windows level, you can install "rectangle", which is very convenient and there are hotkeys for moving windows and resizing them.

[priultimus]

1:17 “i just wish somebody had told me that before” i feel u bro.

[arround]

I also switched. At first it was unusual, especially with window management, as the author of the video noted.
I didn’t want to install unnecessary tweaks and programs, so I got used to it and accepted what the OS offers out of the box. 
To remove apps I use AppCleaner, because if you just drag and drop them into the trash, there will be a bunch of leftovers in the system folders.

[itsnoam]

1 week ago I ordered an M3 Pro 14' and about to switch after over 10 years of using windows, thank you for this video!

[javiersierra]

The things about apps not closing depends on the developers of the app, discord does this on windows too, you close the window, not the app. For me that isn’t a problem because I love shortcuts, even if the red cross closed the app properly I would still use them.

Scrolling can be weird, but when you do it on your phone it feels natural, I became used to it in no time.

I also didn’t like the thing where you can’t slide a window to the side and make it occupy half the screen, but I just have 3 Desktops, and it is so much better, the only thing that is worse is when you need to move a file from an app to another, but I can live with that. When I go back to windows I feel so constricted

[saudfata]

As a Linux user with too much time on my hands, I feel called out 😂

[tombuur]

I used Windows from 1993 to 2022. I switched to Mac because of the exceelent performance of the M1 with music applications. I actually just bought the Macbook pro to be used as a portable device, expecting to buy a higher specs Mac for desktop use. However, the Macbook worked so well that I regretted I didn’t get one with more RAM and harddisk. So now I consider getting an M3 Macbook with higher specs as my one and only for both studio and potability.

[prima]

I switched from Mac to Linux and it was one of the best decision I ever made.

[kevin_mitchell]

8:02 If you right-click on the app icon in the doc, you'll see a list of your open documents for that app and then you can select the one you want, or open a new document. An alternative is from the top menu bar under "Window" for that app, there is an option where you can merge all the documents into one window with multiple tabs. You can also right click a tab on a multi-tabbed window and select an option to move that tab to a new window.

In general, there are multiple ways of doing many things in the OS to achieve different things in different ways that many people are unaware of. The more you use it the more you'll discover them, and be pleasantly surprised. I see so many comments that say how bad the mac is a at doing different things because they think there is only one way of doing it on a mac. I agree, some things are done better on Windows, but there are also things that's done better on a mac. My personal and subjective preference is for macOS, but I agree with you, the best OS is what's best for the person using it for the tasks they have on hand at the time.

[thedreaming]

8:44 Apple doesn't want MacOS to be windows like and Microsoft doesn't want windows to remind people of MacOS. These little differences will always exist to pull or push users either toward or way from an OS. MacOS is great and Apple makes a solid piece of hardware to go along with it, but Windows runs on a lot of hardware and can be actually affordable for people.

[charliexable]

One thing, with some years being exceptions, Mac laptops are built really well and software updates support up to 7-8 year old machines. My current personal laptop is 6 years old, hinges are still stiff, screen is bright and colors are true, trackpad clicks like new, runs without obvious lag, on latest software, is running 10 hours a day next to my workstation. Battery has gotten rough, but can still get 2 hours out of it. Overall the ROI is very good.

[rafal]

As a Linux user, I bought an old MacBook Pro just to try macOS, but I got sick of all those little inconveniences you pointed out, and more, so I decided to go back to Linux and buy a ThinkPad. I don't regret, at least now I know that macOS is just not for me. From my experience, Linux gets out of my way, but gives me the whole control, while on macOS, to make it fit me, I'd have to spend a lot of money on third-party apps, many of which are subscription-based.

[okay-bro]

The reason that installing and uninstalling the apps is like that because they are small container-like apps which keep all the files in the same place unlike in windows app where an app can install multiple files/configurations on multiple locations (appdata, registry etc etc.)

[mcbchannel]

yeah, i use both windows 11 and macos sonoma and what i hate the most from macos are you can’t maximize a window with just a single click, the green dots are useless, i can’t use alt+tab and see the preview of it and instead i need to install a third party app literally named alt+tab, and it doesn’t have clipboard like windows 11 with win+v shortcut. anyway what the most i love is a well integrated apple ecosystem like sidecar with ipad, how seamless to switch using airpods, and of course the airdrop that i can just send images from iphone to my document in macbook with 2 clicks