You imply that you use 3rd party apps - why are some 3rd party apps okay but not ones that, in your opinion, make the OS more like Windows not okay? I would expect a laptop to perform according to my needs, and to be able to customize it accordingly if it doesn’t out of the box. If you had any skills in reading comprehension, you would’ve noticed my comment on 3rd party apps was a comparison to the mindset you’re preaching by saying macOS is perfect out of the box and users are wrong for thinking it should do something it doesn’t already do out of the box.Īnd how is it a “brainwashed” take? If you’re coming from macOS to Windows, would you expect it to behave like a mac? I never said don’t use 3rd party apps, did I? You just need to spend time learning Spotlight instead of trying to improve with Alfred or Raycast” This argument is essentially the same as saying “never use any 3rd party apps, every 1st party Apple app is working perfectly in exactly the way they intended it. Okay well the window management is never going to change, so you can spend the next 30 years learning it but if you prefer window snapping zones or any kind of predefined resizing for convenience, you’re shit out of luck. Why is it wrong to meld the best qualities of both OSs if you’re able to? I don’t like the window management, and there are things I like better on windows. I like macOS’ superior implementation of indexing and gesture controls. “If you’re going to customize macOS as if it’s Windows, why not just use a Windows computer?”īecause my watch, phone, and tablet are all Apple products and I like the way they synergize with my laptop. It’s okay to admit Windows does window management better, and it’s okay to say MacOS isn’t universally perfect or that the original “vision” Steve Jobs had for the OS doesn’t need to be followed like a court ordered ruling. This is the most brainwashed take I ever see and exactly what Apple users get made fun of whenever Apple Cult jokes are made. Most of these apps are free or fair priced. Cut in finder: command-c, followed by command-option-v. Hide all Applications: command-option-h followed by command-m. And a few useful shortcuts: Show the desktop/ unshod -> (fn+) F11. Also automatically opens the chosen window even if minimised before (with the standard behaviour, you have to hold option for that) AltTab: Allows you switch between windows as opposed to application. Tried the later for 2 days and it worked fine for me, but I've read many times "don't buy it, it's abandonware by this point" so I'm not sure I'll actually buy it ubar gives you sort of an actual taskbar. Dockmate or ubar: Dockmate gives you window-previews of applications upon hovering over them. Notice that you now have to quit menu bar apps with command-w in order to keep them running. red quits: pressing on x of the last window of an application quits the application. Mac Mouse Fix: Allows you zoom with command + mouse scroll + allows you to turn of natural scrolling for your mouse, while retaining it the trackpad (i.e., the windows way) Hiden bar: Allows you to collapse all your menubar items into one thingy SensibleSideButtons: Allows you to use the forward/ backward keys on your mouse Monitor control: allows you to access brightness and sound of your monitor (dell hasn't released their own tool for my monitor, and this tool actually does the same) Menuwhere: Command+right click gives you the option of having the menubar-options wherever your mouse cursor is You can also download these protocols from the community ( ) to get windows like finder behaviour (return opens a file, f2 renames it, delete deletes it) Karabiner: Allows you to remap keys, so you can implement the Mac-layout on a windows keyboard (exception is only the fn-key - this one's usually hardware based and thus cannot be remapped). Just this giving this app a shoutout, because I feel like it gets completely lost in comparison to the other ones (rectangle, magnet.).Įdit: for the rest of you coming from windows more because of M1, than because you like macOS, here are a few other Apps I would recommend: That combined with command + m/q, Alfred/spotlight for launching, and AltTab for switching windows, gives you almost full control. I personally use CTRL + Arrows, CTRL + X. They also offer a bunch of swiping stuff but I'm not into that. After having played around with several apps, I think swish is the best solution for being able to move windows like you do on - well windows. So I recently came from windows to Mac, and frankly I was shocked how bad the macOS dock and the window management capabilities were (in comparison to the windows taskbar, and windows-key + arrows).
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