I tried MacOS for 1 year. Here’s what I learned.

🧠 MY SKILLSHARE CLASSES:

MY FAVOURITE TOOLS:

[bogxd]

Statistics show that scrolling back up to SMASH the like button increases your Mac's speed by 15.7%

[theabyssaldemon]

Bog: *uses macOS for 1 year*
Me, a seasoned veteran that has used it for 10+ years: let's see what this guy learned
Bog: *teaches me new trick I didn't know about in the first 50 seconds*
Me: alright then

[miguelguthridge]

What disappoints me the most about MacOS is how all these awesome features are so difficult to find. There's nothing in the UI to indicate that they exist, which means that you can spend your entire life thinking that they don't.

[Daphoid]

I'm just happy to see people try.

I used Windows from about 1993 through 2009. I wanted to try something different and switched to Mac at home, stayed there until 2021 and switched back to Windows due to hardware issues (on a 12 year old machine, that's not surprising).

Now I will say, I work in IT. Computers have been my thing since I was under 10 years old. I've used most flavors of Windows, MacOS, Linux, BeOS, etc and enjoy it and am good at memorizing layouts/keyboard shortcuts - so I'm not your average user.

That said, I definitely recommend exploring OS's.

Plus if there's something you don't like, don't blame the OS or say it sucks right away just because its new. Find out how to solve your problem, and you may even discover you can tweak it or do something even more powerful with a utility/shortcut. This is why I love computers, I don't get frustrated by them often, I learn them!

As to CTRL+TAB between tabs/windows, this is useful for those that don't use the mouse as much. Once you build up muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts, you'd be amazed what you can do without leaving the keyboard.

[GregoryDumont]

Been using MacOS for years and yet I learned a few things. Thank you!

[deadman]

I’ve been using macos since 2014 and some of this shortcuts shocked me. Thanks😊

[kaitek]

Tip: if you enable "reduced motion" in accessibility settings, switching between workspaces feels way snappier and responsive.

[drugaruka]

3:00 It isn't impossible, you can just use your up and down arrow keys to preview everything in the folder, without selecting all of them

[The-Drone-Hobbyist]

I've used Macs since 2015 but used a Windows laptop for about 1 1/2 years and upgrading to a MacBook Pro in 2022. After watching this brought me back to some stuff I ended up forgetting. Thanks for the video and keep up the great work

[rainmannoodles]

Here's another trick on the "Get Info" panels. In addition to these:

- Cmd+I (open one panel per file)
- Ctrl+Cmd+I (open a panel for the group of files)

There's one more:

- Cmd+Opt+I (*toggle* a panel that *updates dynamically* as you change the selection)

This is the one I use most often.

[adfdageba]

To go to the parent directory of the current folder, use Cmd+Up, and to open a directory or file, use Cmd+Down. Combine this with typing the first letters of a file/folder name to select it, and right/left to preview folder contents, and you can navigate a directory tree pretty quickly.

[hellnawnaw]

In the touchpad settings you can also enable a 3-finger down gesture to do what cmd+down does and it also works when hovering on the icon in the dock!

[marn]

My favorite is still that when you have an option. Say in the menu bar, and youngish alt. It slightly changes the action. For example. If you hold alt while clicking reboot, sleep or shutdown, it removes the three dots and skips the dialog to make sure you really want to. If you hold alt for ‘about this mac’ it changes to systeminfo. On the right side of the menu bar when you hold alt and click WiFi!p, Bluetooth or sound, you’ll see extra info. For it comes in handy to hold alt and “WiFi settings” changes to “network settings”

[AlexAegisOfficial]

2:05 you can access this using a gesture too, mission control is a four finger swipe up, this view you showed is a four finger swipe down, just like ctrl up and down

[sangeloo]

5:00 You can also right-click (or control click) on the name of the folder in the window bar, it will open up a context menu which shows all parent folders.
all in all, great video. as a mac user for a while I was blown away by the first tip already haha

[carlsouthern]

As someone who uses Sidecar every day, the Option+Brightness shortcut is SO HELPFUL!!!

[pran_irl]

Ty!! So much❤the first one is so useful!

[Yeah_Buoy]

This video is great, thank you! I recently switched from Windows to Mac and your video's have helped!

[vibonacci]

Love how they call a File browsing tool the 'FInder'. Apple is really creative with naming. Just like the 'dynamic island'.

[paulmark]

3:00 you can use up and down arrow in list view to preview things.