CMD+Option+I is your friend

@@AnanthakrishnanThachilath And how is that "it just works" ? :D

Yep ive had the miss fortune of doing that a few times.

@@AnanthakrishnanThachilath I don't think needing to memorize and use a secret handshake should be required for extremely basic functionality. Nobody selects multiple folders wanting to get the information in separate windows, then have to add them up manually 😂. So I shouldn't have to memorize cmd ctrl optn ninja f2 shift minus 7 i to do what's wanted by literally everyone except that one guy frank who sits in the basement with his stapler.

i regret doing this

My biggest issue with external displays is the horrible experience with ultra wide displays. I have a Neo G9 and while it IS the extreme end of ultra wide being 32:9. Windows handles it perfectly with zero setup.

Also, what they didn't touch on was how Apple Silicon is basically lacking some type of AA that x86 Macs have, which makes non-high DPI displays look blurry.

I didn't even know this was an issue until one of my clients purchased a Mac studio and two identical monitors. I still have no idea how to get the monitors to behave correctly.

having to click into a different display each time to activate the display is the most annoying thing.

@@ghostlimits8453 I cannot get my 32 ultrawide to run at 100hz no matter what, I already spent 100+€ on cables, screen just go dark when I select 100hz

It used to work when I had my old 2006 MacBook

yeah finder resizing itself sometimes is a thing that makes no sense and should be fixed, definitely would appreciate a set launch size option in the finder settings (something like terminal apps have)

man. this is so annoying. every single time

Same here, it's a shame though. There's still a lot to love about macos despite it missing such important features like per app volume

I just did Windows 11, but used Rainmeter with many mods, MyDock, ported Apple UI textures/cursors,font.... I got most of the simple stuff that people get MacBooks for on a much more powerful device.

Same I switched from Linux to a macbook and I can't understand how this OS counts as "it just works" I had to install so many apps just to get it to functionally work somewhat, it actually took more maintenance than when I was using Arch Linux

Rip 🙏

think also about the stuff mac has that windows simply misses i message hand off everything being synced with icloud . you simply want to use a mac as a PC which is not how you use mac. embrace the features mac offers

Disabling Spotlight search indexing on flash drives significantly speeded up transfers for me. But the hours of trial-and-error and self-doubt was painful!

@@fastmot1on 😂

It just works oh someone already said it

No need to even know that info truly.

@@stuartstogdill2406 many times I've been waiting for 20 plus minutes to transfer data to a USB. If I know the transfer rate, file size and the expected transfer rate I can diagnose a problem and correct it. Call me old fashioned but I expect a computer to work it out for me and tell me.

Can agree that modern standby kind of sucks. Why the heck doesn't the bluetooth turn off? When I pack away my laptop I want my headphones to connect to my phone instead, but keeping the bluetooth enabled will make my headphones remain connected to my tucked away laptop for some reason.

I hope he and others won't stop ranting about it until they bring back sleep mode, it was a pretty nasty surprise that my new laptop doesn't support sleep mode anymore, now I have to rely on hibernate which takes much longer to boot and I have to raise the lid every damn time I want to wake it up when I have it attached to external peripherals. Plus hibernate is degrading my ssd faster, since it has to write everything in memory to disk. Thank you very much Microsoft, Intel and AMD for this bs no one asked for.

Having the fucking registry disable changing every update doesn't make me any happier...

I think thats on the earphones. My old ones used to stay connected to the laptop but my new ones don't. What I think the difference is that my new ones can connect with multiple devices at once, so when my phone rings they automatically switch to the phkne

tbh i like natural scrolling on the trackpad, but come on, i dont want the trackpad settings to mirror my mouse settings, i want to invert it on the trackpad but not on the mouse, is that really that much to ask?

@@astridlindholm1159 Exactly. There should be separate settings for these two. The software shouldn't even know what the setting is, all the software should do is: positive scroll = move content up and show more of the page further down. Negative scroll is the other way. Which way is positive and negative is determined by your system settings. The size of the scroll value is determined by the system settings too.

Lol Windows

@Liggliluff As a longtime mac user, one of the first steps I do on ANY mac with "natural scrolling" enabled, is to head to system preferences and turn it off. The entire concept is just something that apple pushed on their users so scroll direction by default acts the same across macs and ios. Equating this with mac users as a whole is disingenuous, even if most people (infuriatingly) have it turned on by default. Fully agreed that programs should never fuck with / change direction though - just use whatever the OS gives you, and users can change that in their system settings if they want to. And a simple way to explain how scrolling works is that *normally* you control / should control the motion of the rectangular *view* of the content (and scrollbars), and move those up / down / left / right. And apple "natural scrolling" does the opposite, with the effect that the content appears to move / track in the same direction as your fingers, which is of course how scrolling on touch screens tends to work, and the opposite of how this would otherwise work on standard pc desktop / xerox user interfaces. How content moves "left" / "right" depends on your definition of whether you are apparently moving the content itself in the same direction that you're scrolling in, or your view of it. If you don't match this behavior - ie. if the horizontal scrolling behavior w/ 2d scrolling doesn't match the above, given user system settings - of if for that matter ANY of the scrolling behavior doesn't match that of other, standard applications - then this is a UI bug and the developer implemented this incorrectly. Though fwiw adobe software seems to work perfectly fine on macos, so maybe that's a windows issue...

MS Paint in Win11 have the same problem for some reason while in Win10's paint horisontal scroll doesn't work at all

I think this is due to their proprietary GMUX design. On hardware level.

@@PvtAnonymous why does it work with windows on an intel macbook though? it is a software issue.

@@SimonBauer7 no, it's a kernel issue. GMUX switching is handled very differently in macOS and Windows. But in theory, yes, Apple could rewrite the kernel to support DP MST. That won't really matter though I guess, since Intel Macs are being fazed out.

@@PvtAnonymous Hold up, you just glossed over your lie. Why did you claim this is a hardware limitation when OP just said installing windows on the same hardware has the feature work just fine?

@@PvtAnonymous so you say it's not a software issue and then in the same sentence tell us that it's a software issue?

This is thanks to John Scully. Macs were the go to gaming platform but they got complaints from business owners that staff were just playing games all the time instead of working (novel idea, train your staff better). So Scully went out of his way to make gaming on the Mac less of a thing to encourage more people to buy them for businesses. We're still seeing the result of that decision. Jobs tried to kick start it as a gaming platform again in the late 90's when he came back to the company showing off things like Quake 3 and... Halo, which was a Mac exclusive like Bungies previous games were at that point. Then Microsoft bought them out and made it an Xbox launch title. He never really forgave Bill Gates for that. Something else to add to the list lol.

@@TalesOfWar Oh, I'm aware of all this, I was just commenting that Linus must be really young if he doesn't remember the first couple generations of Macs having the best games. Also, Steve Jobs disliked video games as much as Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Apple has developed MetalFX, a competitor to DLSS and the like. They've even made "Fast Resource Loading" the equivalent of DirectStorage. Maybe Apple plans to finally win over some game developers outside the trashy mobile space?

@@Mr.Morden It won't happen so long as DirectX is the preferred API.

@@TalesOfWar Bill gates is a weirdo, but the xbox was done right and now has reached PC capabilities so now they just merged it all. The new halo has full crossplay between console and pc. More games with ties to microsoft will get this going forward. Xbox and pcs will basically be the same platform.

Switching platforms is basically just switching downsides. You improve on some points but have to give up on others. It all depends on which points you personally need the most.

Yeah the standby is incredibly infuriating. How did Apple get this right on my 2011 macbook air, yet Microsoft still fails? And all others as well, for that matter.

similar case here. Although I only bought a mac because I already have my desktop windows PC, and now I wanted to have for the first time in my life a trustable laptop that just works. If it had to be my gaming machine, I would've never got a mac. Although I must say it can run some emulators quite nicely. Another thing I love about it is to charge it in 90 minutes and then leave home without packing the PSU. Over 8 hours of working time on battery at full performance. imo windows gives a delightful experience with desktop computers and a very bad one with laptops.

blender has RT now for pro

​@@LuLeBethat has a huge battery sir

What is in Ubuntu that other Gnome implementations are missing?

​@@viacheslavspitsyn2995 other then the side panel that you could easily add to any other distro using extensions? nothing

Eeeh gnome is not particularily convenient, though luckily on linux we are not stuck with one option and instead everyone can pick what works for what they want. Light users get their gnome, kde, xfce and whatever they are all called, powerusers have custom tiling wms, everyone's happy

But new gnome extensions management sucks

Back here after my return to Fedora on the third try. Well, I can say that it is way more stable distro than Ubuntu is and I agree that all convenient Ubuntu's features can be achieved by the same extensions that Ubuntu use. And what is more, vanilla GHOME has its own charm. The only extension I added to it are Hide Minimized, Battery Time and Bluetooth Quick Connect. And made Minimize/maximize window title buttons visible)

Tim cook knows better at what volume your audio should run!

I absolutely hate this. It basically makes it impossible to watch something with someone over facetime. iOS has even more audio issues.

Ugh, them doing that with only Facetimes reminds me of a fricken stupid setting Windows has had since like XP - which by default drops audio of any program other than a voice chat program like Skype, down by 80% relative to it's actual Volume control value (eg: running Firefox at 50% relative to Windows 100% and start a Skype call? Firefox drops to 10% relative to Windows as that's 1/5th of the actual slider for the program). And often even when not using the voice chat program Windows *refuses* to return volume settings back to normal. The *only* way to disable that default setting with all the GUI changes and Setting Menu changes Microsoft has done since Windows 7 - you have to dig out the Classic Control Panel (from the days of Win9x and NT 5.x (2000/XP)) to find the Classic Sound menu and select the "Do Nothing" radio button in the "Communications" tab.

When I watch movies on FaceTime I have to switch to Google Meet

@@falagarius exactly

Are you insane trying to go against Apples dictation how to use the product you payed your hard earned money for! You paid for the privilige of being stuck in their box of "user experience" pfff you are such a caveman

@@johnnybegoodgovbebad8426 True, after 10 months of using and not getting used to mouse acceleration I should just concede it's a me-problem. Thank you Apple for trying to help me learn the benefits of inaccurate nonlinear mouse movement!

Linear Mouse is a god sent, also sensible side buttons while we are in the topic of mouse usage

When I was studying graphics design our school used Apple computers and we weren't allowed to do any modifications to them, so this is the thing that gave me hell. It's insane to me that this is something that can't just be disabled, what were they thinking?

Linear mouse acceleration is good for gaming, but I actually think that a decent amount of mouse acceleration is good for office tasks when navigating cursors thought a large monitor.

> I'm met with "just do it the Apple way, it's better" You are met with blind cult following which is (the cult) ok with the dictatorship. Also +100 to the shortcuts/gestures problem.

@@megamastah youtube, not 4chan

@@megamastah and ironically they have to pay more to get that

“I’ve committed to memory over the last 20 years” is it that hard to be dynamic? Robots act like this

@@BelkyRealm no, but it's harder than not doing it. That's why all cars have steering wheels and pedals rather than one company deciding levers are a better interface

How is modifying macOS with some haxies in minutes worse than spending days researching and modifying a Linux distro? How do I get KDE to give me a universal consistent menu with all the usual items in exactly the same place in all Apps so I don't have to hunt for them, just "the way I want it to"? Where do I get consistent legible Help files that aren't dated, dead, incoherent, possibly non-existent links to unfinished documentation 'somewhere'? In fact how do you get any Linux Distro to just work out of the box with 80+ actually useful and well designed Apps?

​@@peterbreis5407 kde plasma has a global menu plasmoid ("widget") you can put into anywhere in a taskbar / desktop, you can literally make macos' menubar in kde plasma completely, only without the in built macos help docs

@@peterbreis5407 you get consistent legible help files on the arch wiki, otherwise good luck

@@t-posekoichi2752 ...and boy do you need good luck... ...and unlikely to get it. btw What Linux users think is legible, let alone well written, is on another planet.

@@t-posekoichi2752 No you can't. The macOS Menu bar is not just decoration at the top of the screen. It has consistent content and purpose. Wearing your underpants on the outside does not make you Superman.

True! On a good day I can have four browser windows open. I need to go to the windows menu and select the one I need. What a waste of time.

Yeah imo it’s a problem that’s throughout the entire OS (considering apps as the multitasking atom rather than windows). I wish the dock had better support for windows too.

Just get the free and open-source software AltTab. Works better than Windows implemtation imo

Not perfect, but you can tab to the applicatoin you want, and then use CMD+` to switch between different windows of that application. Still not as good as the windows solution for sure but its passably usable once you learn that.

@@oso3557 I love it, but it definitely doesn’t work better than the windows version IMO. It just doesn’t work with some windows at all (looking at you iOS simulator & Android Emulator), and will only show a menu bar or nothing at all for these applications.

that's not even going to be 7 or 8. gonna be 1 hour long video lmao

Good luck doing one on Linux. I think you'd have to review every distro individually.

the linux one would be a 5 video series. lol

They probably are doing it

@@NicolaiWeitkemper It's not distro's.... its desktop environments. Stock GNOME and KDE are all you really need to look at.

I don't know about the "power" part, sounds like you didn't look much. Because it feels like there is infinite variation and price tiers when it comes to windows laptops. Like insane core counts CPU, 32gb RAM and 4th gen RTX with 4k displays? Sure, as long as you have the money. But the even crazier part to me is that how even inferior spec mac laptops cost like a kidney to buy. My current laptop is singificantly cheaper than the cheapest macbook but has like twice the power (not even counting the rtx gpu lol).

And it was better when the finder windows had the customizable buttons at the top. Now they prioritized the...name of the folder for some reason, and shoved all the buttons to the right where they are hidden in an expandable menu unless your window is stretched super long.

@@Leonhart_93 It's not about the mere hardware. The M1/M2 Macbooks have far better battery life, audio speakers, display and build quality than your average Windows laptop of the same or lower price. I have used both an M1 Macbook and a Windows laptop with an RTX and Ryzen. The difference between the two is that the Macbook runs at the same prowess regardless of it being plugged in or out. The RTX laptop runs like shit on a battery. Which is the main point of a laptop. I honestly think if one just wants a laptop as a daily driver the Macbook is miles ahead. Unless you need to game and/or software that Mac does not support.

@@weebeans1112 You might consider looking into Samsung's laptops. They're not top spec but like a Macbook Pro they're extremely well balanced and have great battery life. Also great for artists, since the built-in wacom digitizer essentially turns their 2-in-1s into cintiqs. My only issue is that the newer models with a dedicated GPU lack the digitizer for some inscrutable reason.

@@weebeans1112 Nah, I don't want it for web browsing. the Macbook doesn't even have a fraction of the power that I want. I am the type that wants 120 FPS on external displays at preferably at least 2k resolution. Current generation games. How TF am I supposed to get that on a mac when they barely have a GPU? Battery is irrelevant for this. The worst part is that they demand ludicrous prices anyway, no thanks.

Can’t recommend Loopback and SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba enough.

I do audio on a mac. Have you tried soundsource? It's a little pricey (20 or 30 US if I remember) but it gives all the options to control volume by app and even reroute. Not sure about a single chrome tab though... 🥸

Volume Master is a pretty good extension

I have one application for you which will change your life and make Mac for audio 100x more powerful for audio work than windows ( & Linux kind of … Linux audio is insanely powerful just not very convenient….) and that application is Rogue Amoebas Loopback . Insanely powerful Virtual audio device creation and individual app volume control though the interface is a bit clunky

@@FrostBitttn This. It also allows to set the volume higher than 100% for that tab. Pretty useful sometimes.

The copy paste option is so you have a backup if the move corrupts or fails. That just saved my ass copying files from an external drive to my work OneDrive. OneDrive had issues and it was a good thing I still had the old files on my external, cut and paste I’d have been out of luck.

It does sorta have cut-paste option - cmd-C and cmd-option-V does the same thing as cut-paste.

I've been forcing myself to learn how to do these sorts of things through the terminal because I find the Finder app to be lacking in some key areas. I'm starting to get the hang of it where it's actually quicker for me to run the terminal commands instead of using the GUI.

its crazy how nice iOs feels compared to macOs. its like a neglected child.

@@GoodStageProduction0 keep telling yourself that. it is rarely going to be faster in terminal unless what you need to do is in base folders. You are just trying to convince yourself that it isn't that bad because you have an irrational attachment to an object or a company. You are not your choice in company, stop making excuses for them.

I can't agree with this sentiment enough. It's genuinely hard to compile such a daunting list too, as there has been a decline in UI/UX in the manner of a death by a thousand cuts. For me, one of the big changes, was the loss of screen specific full screen. I used to be able to make something full screen, and I could continue doing other tasks on other monitors. Now I'm supposed to make each monitor a separate "space" if I want to do that, but now I have all these redundant UI elements, and it's just an _UNPLEASANT_ experience. It's made me avoid activating entire features, and cut into productivity, and reduced the quality of my experience overall. _I hate it!_ I genuinely enjoyed the old "candy" interface of old, but I get it... Times change, whatever... Fine... GIVE PEOPLE CHOICE... We used to have user selectable UI appearances in Mac OS 8 and I think 9. Mac OS 10 has had more UI changes than I think the stock System 6 though 9 UI have collectively experienced! I hate where the UI design has gone. I feel like I'd have to go back to some of those old systems to even remember what I've lost, as Apple seems intent to slowly break my expectations and force me down a path I don't wanna follow. I think Mountain Lion was the last time I felt like Mac OS got an upgrade as opposed to a downgrade when number go up. That doesn't even mention the loss of legacy software that comes from dropping 32-bit app support. There is ZERO reason that a 32-bit application can't be run on a 64-bit OS. Sandbox it if you must. Whatever. Screw Apple for taking away legacy apps, classic games, old but useful utilities... Most of these from long gone companies... There's no replacement for that. I would literally consider paying money for 64-bit Mac app that would act as a shell to launch 32-bit Mac apps.

UI / UX teacher here. Always had a feeling the skeumorphic interface was easier to use. Could you point to some specific interfaces (even just icons) that's hindering smooth interactions which I can research & demo for my class?

@@StoriesWithGR The sidebar is a UI and UX issue for me. It's neither fast to open/close nor intuitive at hinting what the sidebar contains when it's closed.

@@TheDanielLivingston Thanks ton! That's a great point. Would request you to please fill in more such examples whenever you think of them which I can share with my students :)

It just seems like Apple's design team don't actually use these machines and think ordinary people aren't "power users".

Oh the irony ,here 😭😭😭😭

And sometimes you just get that low pitched “beep” that tells you that something, somewhere has just gone wrong.

@@kaischmidt730 Yup, that's another helpful thing. I actually forgot about that until you mentioned it.

@@Lucifer-pn2nd???

Agreed. Although I will say unfortunately Windows is following in Apple’s footsteps when it comes to generic, unhelpful “user-friendly” error messages. “Something went wrong?” That doesn’t help me. I’d much rather see “An illegal fatal exception occurred and the process was terminated. Error code:” because then I know what to search. I work in IT and I can’t stand Microsoft’s shift toward unhelpful error messages because it makes issues hard to diagnose. If I’m helping a user who gets an error when trying to sign into Teams and I Google it, I see several threads with entirely different solutions and no way to know what to try first. Give me a damn code Microsoft! But as for the rest of your points, I 100% agree.

Now if only Apple actually listened/cared about any of it

I’m thinking of selling my (relatively) new laptop and going Mac for this reason. Once or twice a month the laptop will fail to come out of the standby mode causing either a BSOD or the laptop to just not turn on when I open the lid (and needs to be power cycled). Causing me to lose my open windows and programs. Also the laptop arbitrarily goes into hibernation, meaning sometimes I can leave the laptop unplugged for two hours and have it lose 30-40% of battery because modern standby drains battery like fuck

@@ILoveWomen yeah, I set my laptop to go into hibernation by default when closing the lid on day one of owning it. The first time i closed it, the fan kept running at full tilt for minutes on end, that's so annoying. You should be able to decide how your pc behaves on standby.

it definitely sucks and ruined my SP4 experience.

not sure if this has been fixed with the newer m1 or m2 macbooks, but my old Macbook did have something similar (i believe its called power nap). It drained my battery, made my backpack warm, and wakes my laptop even on standby. Theres an option to turn it off in the settings but it never worked for me. It's why I almost never want to put my macbook on standby. Then again, my current Windows laptop still does it. i guess i can never escape it.

I’ve got a macbook instead of a windows laptop, modern standby was probably the most impprtant reason. They should make a dedicated video documenting issues with modern standby and compare it to macbooks.

Yeah trying to alt+tab between terminal windows drives me insane. They are top level windows in every other way, there is no consistency.

Tbh you’re right. I have a Mac m1 for the past few months and I simply just don’t like it. No matter how much I try windows is just better

"Apple is certainly very innovative with hardware" Funny you said that because 3 years ago people would have said "Apple has certainly polished out their software but they need to work on their hardware"

@@Syuvinya Because they used crappy CPUs by intel and by that point pretty old AMD GPUs. M1 changed a lot and even got me excited to try it even though I've never had a Mac.

i've been using my mbp from 2017 until now. starting from high sierra to ventura, as far as i can tell, there's no significance in between that updates, apart from 32-bit application support dropped. most of them are just redesigning icons, and smoothing user experience. in other hands, windows 11 shockingly offers more innovative updates from it's initial release until version 22h2. it's still named windows 11 but with much much better experiences and features

Time Machine is one of the only things that’s keeping me on Macs. It’s so essential to me.

Haha lol

And it's been like that since pre-2000...

And if it costs them a license to use whatever function that someone else patented, then they should just pay the damn license so users aren't having a nightmare of an experience. It's not like a dollar of added cost is going to be a problem when Apple's profit margins are so disgustingly large despite doing everything that they can in-house.

Yup. Getting my LG C2 to look right took a month before I gave up and settled. Still can't get 120hz and it's random whether it'll set itself to 10-bit or 8-bit, with the HDR option disappearing on its own.

so it defaults to 10 bit when you are on a 10 bit display?

lemme guess, you have to type some garbage in the terminal?

Can you not use a higher bandwidth cable to get both?

@@jbnelson the port has to support it. It might be an older monitor with an older port.

linear mouse is free

SteelSeries ExactMouse used to work on x86 Macs, haven’t tried it on the new ones.

I believe there is a command line to stop it? I have disabled mine with some code copy and paste into the command line tool. But I do know it does sounds a lot more sketchy than using an app to switch it off.

@@TypeErrorDubs It works on new ones, can confirm :) That was my solution as well.

@@kzed Does this have a native ARM version?

You’re supposed to arrange and overlap your windows on the Mac, not maximize everything. The desktop UI paradigm is a metaphor. When you work on paper, you don’t use a single piece of paper the size of your desk. You have many pieces of paper and you rearrange them and stack them. It’s hilarious when I see PC users with one or maybe two browser windows on a giant modern display, and waste most of their screen space.

‘Swish’ is great for window arranging and other trackpad enhancements if you need more than the basics included in Rectangle.

@@coolbugfacts1234 In real life, the filing cabinet is next to the desk, so is the trash can and I have several drawers (that are not open at the same time). I don't dump everything on my desk to start working.

@@tobiasnietgen okie time to work, dumps everything out

@@coolbugfacts1234 moronic shill

Why would you need Airdrop, handoff etc if you only had one machine...............................

@@nowandrew4442 I don’t have one machine. I have a phone and a tablet that I often want to transfer data between easily.

Could you not create an aggregated device in the midi app?

I agree! All of my PC's still work. My Mac's are all dead.

Why do you think macs are easier to use? I'm not a Mac user myself, I'm just curious.

​@@quinndepatten4442 In my experience its down to forcing you to do things their way. If you only ever use Mac and want your hand held for everything, its probably is easier. But if you've spent any time using Windows or Linux, its an absolute chore as really simple things are often hidden behind keyboard shortcuts you need to somehow already know about. Want to file things how YOU want? No, MacOS wants you to index everything by meta data. Use a NAS? You're so out of luck as you can't search files on there unless its indexed, which I do not want to waste space or CPU resources on when I primarily use Linux and Windows.

@@quinndepatten4442 Because they are very Orwellien in design. Everything pretty much exactly the same all the time for everyone. Nothing too fancy, and the fancy stuff pretty much does everything for you. It's like the mother bird of computers. To me, I see Apple products being for people who aren't great with computers because they hold your hand.

WSL is magic. Now if they'd fix the taskbar in windows 11 and stop using the OS as an involuntary ad platform, I might upgrade from windows 10!😂

The monitor of my Mac Mini has a TV feature and because of this macOS thinks I’m connected to something thats only a TV and the system shoudn’t be able to control volume (which isnt acceptable behavior in any circumstance), so I need to or: - Use the remote of the monitor to control the volume, - Use a third party app - Use as an output for sound the speakers on the Mac Mini All of them sucks

To be fair, Windows is just as bad at filesystems like ext4.

Exfat works fine on them all. I only use exfat on usb sticks or it's a nitemare as that's the only one I found that works on everything And samba doesn't care what the file system is.

Is that why android mtp doesn't work natively on MacOS? (Need to install Android File Transfer or use ADB)

@@NicolaiWeitkemper Windows Subsystem for linux shows that it can and does play really well with ext4 partitions now

Actually APFS is really good for doing dual booting of various Mac operating systems, if they are supported that is. All you have to do to remove an OS is nondestructively delete the partition as it is a virtual one, what they call a volume. It’s really all on one drive but they virtualize the partitions so there’s no resizing.

i am not sure if it exist for each app separated, but for sure something like sounds of system, sound of programs, sound of CD, etc I remember this also in Windows 98, actually.

@@AfonsoBucco Yep it did exist for each app.. you may have had to open the sound mixer in the start menu to access it through

@@i00Productions what a shame. I never discovered that.

@@AfonsoBucco I stand corrected.. it was for each input / output not each application

Removed on Windows 11. I had to install a 3rd party app to get it back

I often wonder if the Xcode developers have ever touched Xcode in their lives, too. Plus I feel like over time, macOS releases have been getting worse in terms of stability, and they still force you to install the most recent version no matter what to be able to develop or even deploy to the newest version of iOS, which is really rough.

Well you can't make MacOS apps on Windows so technically they pretty much have to lol

@@GeneralKenobi69420 but there’s just no way any developer or development team would be okay with using Xcode as it currently exists: it’s super unstable, the project system is a nightmare to use, and some features (like swift package manager) work so poorly they’re more likely to get in a developers way than help at all. Syntax highlighting often just breaks, and it always takes like 4 hours to install updates!! Like if they just use Xcode and they don’t have some kind of modified better internal version I feel so sorry for them (and I’m so confused how it’s possible for Xcode to be so bad).

Average MacOS user is right now having meltdown over Elon kidnapping their precious blue bird 🐦 same kind of people who write articles how they've just replaced their computers with iPads because you know, they don't do any real work 😂👌

IPhone devs are no choice. They must develop on macOS which sucks

Agreed I would love the option to use something like Thunar or Nemo instead of Explorer.

> Need a windows video on how Microsoft makes the search tool search the internet by default i recently figured out how to change that and it made me actually use the search bar multiple times a day instead of once or twice monthly. Its such a bizarre thing to do on microsofts part

Powertoys (mentioned in the video) has a "powertoys run" app that is very similar to spotlight on macos. I'ts so nice to use.

@@sebastianstark3224 good to know

@@TacohMann will be trying this out

Huh? I have a Thunderbolt 4 dock connected to a single Thunderbolt 3 port of my MacBook Pro supplying it with power while having 2 4K 60 Hz monitors (could be 3), 2 more Thunderbolt ports, audio, LAN abd several USB 3.2 ports working with no problems!

@@MVEProducties thunderbolt 3 & 4 works, standard USB-C does not.

Intel Mac allow more than 1 external monitor out of the box and you can even use eGPU for that. But Apple Silicon Mac can't that these and has no Bootcamp, so...? What are you talking about

​@@MaxLittleBuddy I have a 2019 macbook pro. NON thunderbolt docks/dongles are software limited by MacOS. My USB-C dock has 2 HDMI cords. MacOS only lets me use one of them. If I switch to BootCamp, both ports work. I won't say this is well known, but this is a fact.

​@@MaxLittleBuddy Fun fact, You CAN use an eGPU to get more HDMI outs off a single USB C cable on silicon macs. Despite what all apples documents say. There is a $80 USB 3.0 (A port) to HDMI external video card that can give you an extra monitor even on the M1 Air. Apple claims it only gets 1 monitor out, and it does not support an external video card, but that is not true. And it DOES work.

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can you provide some sources of these patents?

@@akzarma unfortunately, all my links and comments are blocked by UKposts

ah, where did you find them though?

@@akzarma literally every keyword I try is blocked. It's "Method and system for efficiently creating a new file associated with an application program"

The other thing you can do is use Alt+Tab to switch between active apps

I just use separate spaces, personally

On Windows 11 it actually group snapped windows into single group that you can switch to.

@@surferdude4487 that's fair, I just do it differently lol. I have both a windows laptop and mac laptop rn (m1 pro mac for video editing, convertible windows for school note taking and essays) so I find it annoying to try to use different muscle memory for each constantly.

@@samk2407 you can actually ALT Tab (windows) and command tab on (MACOS)

Heard that long ago as well but, then how can all of these third party apps do it and charge money for it?

This is why we have "Mac People" in our dev studio, if something is broken on a Mac you just pass it to the Mac People as you have no chance of fixing it without becoming Mac People yourself.

Yeah apple hates developers. Why do I have to use a mac for programming for you? Why does the iOS VM only run on mac? Android just gives you the tools if you want to use them with whatever you like Why are you forced to use their IDE? Google doesn't care if you use android studio Why Metal? Vulkan is the standard (funny that apple says it want to become a gaming platform ... without vulkan) Why do you have to pay 100 bucks every year to be on the App Store? On android it's a 40 dollar fee once I know most of these can be answered with: it makes them more money and pretty much everything else, because they are stubborn A lot of developers already use your products just because they want to. Apple doesn't even have to force them onto it. Homebrew is great and macOS is a good balance between Linux (command line, package manager, etc.) and Windows (Office, Adobe, etc.). Their stupid garbage complicates pipelines and development in general.

MacOS not having Vulkan support has really bothered me. Apple's hostility to open standards the rest of the gaming world uses really hurts their chances of becoming big in gaming and I've seen too many Mac people deny that. Apple has a huge uphill battle they'll have to fight if they want to do well in gaming including supporting open standards like Vulkan

You are here talking about it right now... what are the issues?

What is modern standby? And what's the issue with it?

@@thomgizziz 1. Modern Standby 2. Automatic Updates and how they cause driver incompatibilities by updating drivers 3. The state of color management, I have no clue how this thing works 4. Subpixel rendering These are just a few to start off with

@@Gordoxgrey From what I've understood, it is a new implementation of sleep which *should* sip very little power, while keeping the CPU on, the laptop also stays connected to wireless networks while it's sleeping. The problem here is that it is usually not implemented well, and it sips a lot more power, just ploughing through battery and at times even waking up for updates, causing higher CPU usage, and more heat, and all of this in an enclosed backpack. So in order to prevent further power usage, the laptop decides to hibernate after a certain threshold, but that means you have turn it back on every time you open it. For reference, my 5 year old laptop had no issues just waking up from sleep after being closed for however long, without any gigantic battery drain

@@thomgizziz I think there are a number of things that could be made better with File Explorer. Finder’s column view is really nice for digging around in folders, and the gallery view is excellent for browsing through photos and videos.

Dude i heckin love windows 11. So clean 🔥

@hugo anybody asked? modCheck

@hugo What? The second menu is only for the options that you rarely ever need to use, and I can eject USB devices with task manager open.

@hugo are you whining for making one click more than before?

@@wta1518 Question: Can you edit that second menu? When I had the developer you couldn't, and I cant remember what it was but I was constantly using the second menu. I haven't upgraded partly because of this (and partly because my 2x 2015 Toshiba laptops aren't TPM😁🤣)

works on m1, i use it too👍

It works, but I find it not working properly all the time. Sucks that Apple goes such lenghts to just fuck with you if you don't have everything from Apple. You have two sepearate buttons and you link them up? WHY Apple?

I always get annoyed by the term 'natural scrolling' whenever I turn it off on a new system. Like, it feels natural to me, so why are you (Apple) calling me unnatural?

Thanks for sharing!

Why keep "natural" scrolling on the trackpad? It's not a touch screen where you push the content in a certain direction. It's still a scrolling device controlling the scrollbar on the screen, which is going down, not up.

Yeah, the Mac mini and dual monitors is why I skipped the Air.

What do you love about the OS that doesn't exist in other OSs? Most of this I love the OS isn't you actually loving it but some irrational attachment because you feel it makes you special because you stand out or some other BS. Get a grip on reality. OSs either let you do what you want or they don't and anything that is getting in the way of you doing what you want is a bad thing and not a quirky thing that you should love.

@@thomgizziz you need to find a better hobby than trying to pick fights with people about operating systems lol it’s not that serious, chill

Lol not ideal? A basic functionality ever laptop has had for decades now should be a deal breaker to any sane person XD like I could multi monitor my shitty $ 400 HP laptop from 12 years ago XD

Tech tribalism is stupid, use what you like. I like MacOS as it's the best laptop experience, I like Windows as it gives me the best gaming experience and I like Linux (Proxmox) for my homelab since it's an amazing hypervisor experience. None of them needs to "win", just use them for what they are great at.

BetterTouchTool also has edge snap, in addition to also letting you fully customize your magic mouse or trackpad gestures (such as gestures for window snapping).

For the audio I ended up purchasing SoundSource by Rogue amoeba. It is quite expensive (just checked it is at $40) but I missed audio controls too much.

„Sound Control“ is a great third party mixer application that lives in the menu bar, very similar to windows volume mixer

Rectangle is truly a lifesaver

Windows snapping alone is the reason I'm still with Windows. That and the fact that it won't randomly block permission of any legacy apps I need and force me to enable the permission and restart the whole thing.

I agree. I use my mac on the daily, when im on the move, I dont use a mouse and when im home I use my mouse. It really triggers me because every time I have to navigate through the settings to uncheck and check the natural scrolling

Me too. I use "Unnaturalscrollwheels" and "sanesidebuttons". They fix basically everything wrong with mice in MacOS. Even options tp disable Mouse acceleration and you can use any mouse properly

@@playerguy7 Can confirm UnnaturalScrollWheels (from ther0n on github) solves the trackpad/mouse issue wonderfully.

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Me too. Switched to a MacBook Pro 14. I spent many hours with third party tools and scripts trying to bring some basic features missing. Ultimately I sold it after two months. Remote Desktop into work PC with Citrix was not a great experience. I was sad to see it go as it was a beautiful piece of hardware and super fast. Surprised how far Windows 11 has come

Hardware reasons? A goddamn MacBook? WHAT WAS GOING ON IN YOUR HEAD?

@@Micromation apple silicon u bozo

@@stevenson1142 sounds like a downside no matter which way you slice it, bro

@@Micromation cope

Have you heard of our lord and saviour Three Finger Drag?

This has annoyed me for a decade

In macOS you just push-drag. Don’t double tap, just push down the trackpad, keep pushing and drag at the same time. Only macs can do it (to my knowledge) and it’s more intuitive than the double tap drag

@@franciscoxc Windows and Linux absolutely do this, and it has probably been a feature for as long as trackpads have existed because you're giving the exact same inputs as if you were using a mouse. The reason people would want to use double-tap drag is because it doesn't require you to hold down the trackpad, and holding down the trackpad while dragging can become tiring after a while.

@@marro643 what I’m talking about started being possible when apple launched the buttonless trackpad…

Also Linux video

Use all three.. All have issues.. But none as much as MacOS, seems like its 15 years old every time I have to use it.

@@srilemobitelsrile8809 hah, you'd need like 20 different ones for linux

Windows only has one problem which is windows

@@srilemobitelsrile8809 assuming Linus can get Linux to work for it. It's a meme, like Colton being fired, with how much Linux *will* fail in the hands of LS.

Have your job buy Magnet, absolutely worth every cent!

@@schoonerthedog I use rectangle, free and amazing

@@schoonerthedog problem with buying for me is kinda 10% money but 90% closed source I Leo to keep 3rd party closed source solutions to a min Hence why I got to open source alternatives not just free ones Even if I have to compile from source from the git repo But that’s not an option for everyone

its not? just somewhere else in the ventura settings, remember still seeing it though

There is a solution for this, but it involves some system tinkering . Not difficult one, but it's comparable to windows RegEx. - Search Remap "Home" and "End" to beginning and end of line in apple Stack exchange.

Do you spend much time in Unix environments? I found ctrl-a, ctrl-e, option-left_arrow, option-right_arrow, etc. intuitive after spending time on Linux.

if you think windows is a better experience then macOS overall then please self administer natural selection

@@blaynestaleypro windows 10 certainly is, yes. A much more reasonable experience for half the price, with a far better feature set. The only reason I use mac's is due to them locking the iOS development to MacOS only. Otherwise I would prefer Windows for personal use and Linux (or WSL2) for professional.

This is my biggest issue with macOs, I daily drive one and it still drives me crazy every day, especially when you consider it gets even more inconsistent when you use an external keyboard

I am very excited to try that. I have a 48" OLED and previously searched for a way to divide the screen into 3 columns but couldn't find anything. It would also be nice for ultrawides.

Well they could have started off with stating for 99% of the mac os users the items mentioned are not relevant. Less time wasted.

@@eddu4361 That wouldn't be true though. While some of them only affect a small minority, things like window snapping affect a lot of people, enough that there are multiple paid apps to fix the issues.

these mac annoyances are not inherent, if they want a great product they need to fix them

@@wta1518 they won't add all those things many use 3party apps for. That's just another way of apple earning money. That said Rectangle and raycast are both free and made ios joyful again

@@wta1518 I’d love to see some data on that [that most macOS users are negatively impacted by the lack of window-snapping]. Most of my extended family and most of my friends are Mac users. Most of the people I’ve worked with for decades have been Mac users by choice, MSWindows users at work when they have to. I’ve known exactly 1 person who has installed some sort of window-snapping or similar software on their Macs. Maybe some of the rest are annoyed by the lack, but not enough to look for (or to pay for) software to fix it. But I’ve never IRL heard anyone complain about the lack, and mostly the complaints I see online are from people who use multiple OSes. Now, this _could_ be explained by the folks who only use macOS not even realizing there’s a better way that they’re missing out on. And for some people, that’s undoubtedly what’s going on. But I have another hypothesis: the sorts of window management features that mswindows provides aren’t particularly awesome for most users; they’re better than nothing, and a necessary stop-gap because window management is otherwise so poor. macOS provides better window manipulation tools, so you don’t _need_ snapping and auto-quartering just to manage your windows, for most users. When I’m using Windows 10, I find window snapping and keyboard manipulation of windows (size, placement) important, and use it pretty regularly. But I also find that it gets in the way almost as frequently-I’ve finally trained myself to drag windows in such a way as to usually avoid snapping or resizing when I don’t intend to. And the sorts of things that I use those features for are things that I rarely find myself wishing I could do when using my Macs. (And it’s not hardware: both my work and home computers are dual-24” displays running at 1080p (well, the home displays are 1920x1200, but the extra hundred vertical pixels aren’t something I ever notice in terms of window management. And while my work laptop’s display is slightly larger than my MacBook Air, it’s not enough that I’m treating it differently, like more often putting windows side-by-side or similar.) Frex, I’ll snap a couple windows side-by-side on Windows 10, because if I’m doing something involving just those 2, but I have a bunch of other windows open, that’s more reliable for flipping back and forth between them. If I’m using Ctrl+Tab, it’s too easy for another window to decide to grab focus and mess up my flow. Using the mouse is fiddly because Windows 10 allows click-through, so I have to be really careful where I click on a window to focus it, or I might focus it and do something at the same time. Doing the exact same task, maybe even with the same applications, on macOS, I’ll almost never bother trying to tile them exactly. Only if I need to see the entirety of both windows-including the border chrome and such-is it valuable to me. I’ll just flip back and forth with ⌘-Tab or ⌘-` or use the mouse/trackpad to switch windows (whichever better fits the rest of my workflow). And since I can move and resize a background window without first making it a foreground window, even if I need to do that it’s often still quick and easy. As another example, the thing that made me think about this and come back to this discussion was having Windows 10 decide to put all my windows on one display while I was at lunch just now. If I were using macOS, the solution would be quick and painless: open Mission Control, grab all the windows for an app, move them to the other monitor. Only if I wanted windows for a single app spread across multiple displays _and_ I had many windows open for that app would it be any kind of problem. But on Windows 10, I instead had to one-by-one select each window, and then either Win+Shift+➡️ or drag each one to the other window. _Really_ tedious with 3 dozen or more Outlook windows. Similarly: minimize all the windows for an application, then go do something else, and now want to unminimize them all? One-by-one is the only option-the keyboard shortcuts only work if the last thing you did was minimize them. But on macOS I can hide and unhide all windows for an app at once, if I want. These and other differences mean that I find myself consciously working to keep down the number of open windows on MSWindows, because once you get past a dozen, maybe 2 dozen, just navigating between them becomes annoying. I feel no such productivity impact to having dozens and dozens of open windows on macOS, and can still quickly and easily navigate to exactly the window I need. And the things that I find myself using window snapping for on Windows 10 mostly don’t even come up on macOS-I’m using snapping because there isn’t a better/easier way to get my work done, not because “having 2 windows occupy exactly half the screen” or “have multiple windows exactly fill the screen with no overlap and no gaps” provide any inherent value. IME, snapping & tiling are _one way_ to work efficiently with multiple windows, and Windows 10 doesn’t really provide any others. But there are other ways to make working with multiple windows efficient, and macOS provides a couple of them that Windows 10/11 don’t, so the lack of snapping just doesn’t matter. And circling back to my hypothesis: people who are used to MSWindows are used to awkward window management and a poor UX when windows overlap (rather than tiling), so they’ve come to rely heavily on snapping. They’re not used to manually handling lots of windows, because it’s really inefficient on MSWindows, so when they use macOS they come into it already used to _needing_ to snap windows all the time just to keep everything efficient, and either don’t know about the other window management tools macOS provides, or don’t like them because it’s not rhe way they’re used to working. And that’s why I mostly see dual-OS users complaining about the lack of snapping on macOS, and Mac-only users mostly not complaining about window management (let alone specifically asking for window-snapping or -tiling). Emphasis on “mostly” in both of those statements.

I’m in the opposite situation where I have a MacBook that I know and I’m used to, and I’m spending some time working on Ubuntu. I’ve enabled dark mode but it doesn’t apply to everything, so I’ll switch from VS Code to a browser tab and I get blinded by a fully white screen every time, it genuinely gave me a headache earlier today. Then there’s the big where if you have a menu open and try to take a screenshot it makes the OS freeze. I had to hard reboot the laptop 4 times yesterday. And once you’ve taken the screenshot you can’t mark it up or resize it. Really lacking in features and robustness compared to macOS.

Your Linux system lacks features? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you were unable to find the setting menu. Hint: it's usually top right hand corner of the screen.

For the issue with dark mode its because some windows use a different framework whether it be gtk or qt you have to set dark mode for both of them. For screenshots use a different screenshot program. I use grim on Wayland

It's funny that MacOS and Linux are based on the same foundation (UNIX). One side you have the closed source our way or else attitude vs open source which might take some tinkering "out of the box", but you can get exactly what you want in the end (not exactly true in 2005 when I switched to Linux...but pretty much is now). Linux is a short learning curve and if you are smart enough to want to customize your OS it really isn't that hard.

@@scpatl4now I'd argue that MacOS allows for pretty good customization, and I have always found an Open Source app for MacOS that does the equivalent of something I can do in Linux, and you can achieve a desktop experience that is very similar to something you would use in a Linux setup. Check out Yabai, Skhd and Alfred. There's also several open source bars available.

@@Signynt Agreed, there's a great selection of Mac apps that can alter system behavior fundamentally and solve most of these "nits" in the video.

This is an issue with the whole software industry. Introducing new features just for the sake of change doesn’t always mean better user experience. Pair this with release now fix later approach that’s the double trouble

The main problem I have with this is upgrading your system is a chore; and as someone who uses musical softwares with plugins I have to wait at least six months (sometimes more) for everything to be correctly updated. I end up not bothering to upgrade and when I consider it it's already a new version (until my system is just too old and then the upgrade is all the more complicated).

Honestly I just wish they would get with basically everyone else and recognize that the first party apps are just that: apps. They can update separately, I shouldn't need an iOS update to get an updated weather app.

100%. Back in the early years of OS X they it was normal for a couple of years to pass between releases, and one (I forget which, maybe Snow Leopard?) was even advertised as offering "no new features", it was just focusing on bug fixes and stability. MacOS hasn't had a release like that since High Sierra, and I don't think iOS has ever had a bug fix only major update.