After years of Windows, I just recently set up a new Mac. It was a breath of fresh air!
Windows has onedrive im the sidebar of the explorer, macos has icloud. On macos it's one toggle I'm settings, and it's gone. In windows, it's an undocumented registry setting, and an msconfig setting, and several nag screens, and it comes back after some OS upgrades.
Changing the default browser to Firefox, Windows still opens some links in Edge, with no way to change that. In macos, browser choice is a setting, and it is honored by the OS.
In general, there are tons of things that annoy me in both OSes, but in macos it's usually a simple preference toggle, where in windows it's some complicated, undocumented hack.
The kinds of things that I configure/fix after the install are different, too. In Windows, it's disabling junk that windows comes with, such as ads, nags, intrusive dumb defaults, etc. In macos it's generally adding things the OS doesn't come with, such as NTFS support, triple-tap/middle-click, window snapping.
As I said, macos is a breath of fresh air compared to the shitshow that is windows 11 (in this regard).
Yeah, heard this before, most all learn to hate Macs after a little bit of time. A fresh of breath air is when you have a ton of control, MacOS is not really good at that. You have to do things a certain way and in particular purchase the right type of stuff and it's doesn't always work.
Windows has onedrive im the sidebar of the explorer, macos has icloud. On macos it's one toggle I'm settings, and it's gone. In windows, it's an undocumented registry setting, and an msconfig setting, and several nag screens, and it comes back after some OS upgrades.
Changing the default browser to Firefox, Windows still opens some links in Edge, with no way to change that. In macos, browser choice is a setting, and it is honored by the OS.
In general, there are tons of things that annoy me in both OSes, but in macos it's usually a simple preference toggle, where in windows it's some complicated, undocumented hack.
The kinds of things that I configure/fix after the install are different, too. In Windows, it's disabling junk that windows comes with, such as ads, nags, intrusive dumb defaults, etc. In macos it's generally adding things the OS doesn't come with, such as NTFS support, triple-tap/middle-click, window snapping.
As I said, macos is a breath of fresh air compared to the shitshow that is windows 11 (in this regard).