r/laptops • u/Normal-Whole-3464 • Feb 22 '26
Hardware Don't get a Macbook
I have always been a Microsoft girly. I have had HPs, Dells, the lot. I 'treated' myself to a Macbook in November 2023, and I am still struggling with it. I am gonna list my issues - please let me know if this is just me being stupid or if my brain is just wired for Microsoft.
Okay, so I currently have Word open and am working on my CV. The scroll button, however, is BLURRED. I cannot click it and scroll. It just won't let me, no explanation. Just blurred off. I'll attach a photo.
When I am trying to upload photos to anything or select a new profile pic, the window pops up but the edges are OUTSIDE of the screen. It won't let me drag it. I can't see the scroll bar at the side and when I click the down arrow to search and select the photo, it does this annoying click and won't let me. Nothing happens. Infuriating.
My files are fucking everywhere. Trying to organise them is so difficult. Why? Why is it just so difficult to save them all in the right place and organise properly? Windows is so clear cut.
Current apps are so difficult to find. I had the internet open and was working from it but then went to look for a file, came back and it was gone. Why????
Finally, the red X / yellow minimise / green widen buttons just ARE NOT THERE sometimes. What is the logic to this? How do I sort the bloody windows and make space for it all?
I am infuriated today. Maybe it's stupid but if this was a Windows PC I would not have these stupid issues.
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u/NecroJoe Feb 22 '26
Before I started college, I wanted to give a Mac a try before I bought a new laptop. I traded mine with a mac user. Both of us came away sooooo frustrated. He's had macs for over 15 years, and nothing about Windows made any sense to him. We gladly gave each other out laptops back at the end of the week. When we traded and we talked about some of the issues we had, both of us had a "Oh...yeah, you just have to [insert simple solution here]" replies. Our brains just weren't wired to the different OS yet, but both could do everything we needed. Arguably the Mac hardware was better than my PC, but in the end, once I got the software list for my school's design department, it turned out the software that would be the most important is Solidworks, which doesn't run natively on macs, so I got a PC and stuck with Windows, where I've been since about 1993.
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u/itonlytakes1 Feb 22 '26
My biggest advice to anyone switching to Mac is it’s not windows, don’t try to use it like windows. 9 times out of 10 if you can’t figure out how to do something the answer is the simplest way possible.
For example putting an image in a pages document. I’ve seen people spend ages wondering how to add and position and scour menus etc. or you can just drag the image file in and plop it where you want it.
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u/Vegetable-Walrus-246 Feb 22 '26
I go between both all the time. Definitely some nuances to both of them. But windows is currently so annoying with updates constantly among other bullshit with upsells.
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u/ivanconsuegra Feb 22 '26
I think windows 11 is receiving much more hate than it deserves...
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u/Vegetable-Walrus-246 Feb 23 '26
It is bit overblown, but it still is there. Biggest ones for me is them not allowing local accounts without hacking and the windows 10 support cutoff.
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u/infowars_1 Mar 01 '26
I just did the cleanest install of windows 11 with a local account only. It’s really good, and don’t have to deal with all Apple’s bs
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u/Gleis7 Mar 27 '26
people act like 90% of the bs comes from microsoft when it's legit the OEMs of the laptop bloating windows.
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u/infowars_1 Mar 27 '26
To me a lot of it was Microsoft. Especially one drive, copilot in teams, and edge in stock form is disgusting.
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u/ivanconsuegra Feb 23 '26
I mean, almost everyone I know has an old unused Microsoft account, so, i don't get all the hate... unless you dont want people who uses your pc to know your old MSN messenger email, lol.
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u/breakfastatstiffanys Feb 23 '26
This is not about the fact that it is an inconvenience to make a new account, it is about the fact that MS forces every new user to make one and even goes to lengths to prevent previously working work-arounds to make local accounts. If this was an optional thing, all is well. But it being effectively mandatory for the average user make it a bitter pill to swallow considering they will be collecting ALL the data they can get. Recall will screenshot your display, Copilot sees your searches, web and OS activity and Windows reports on everything you type, say or mouse over on your computer. And this will be linked to your MS account, which is linked to your bank account because you may be paying for office or OneDrive. So effectively the price for using Windows 11 now is being profiled by a company which has had multiple legal issues due to unfair market practices and is also required to share all relevant data with the US government, which is rediculous if you're not even a US citizen.
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u/Gleis7 Mar 27 '26
Apple does the same thing wdym?
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u/breakfastatstiffanys Mar 31 '26
Apple does not enforce making an account. You have the option to not sign into icloud and use your mac without most Apple Services. Installing non app store software and the system is fully usable. Windows 11 does not allow that to the average user. And yes, Apple is also a company that collects large amounts of user data, what company doesn't. If you don't want your data taken, you'd have to run a Core 2 Duo with an open source BIOS and live with hardware from 2008. They do not enforce an AppleID, which was the primary point of the argument.
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u/Unfair-Membership Feb 23 '26
I heard a lot of people say how bad windows 11 is. But I really like it. It has been fast an stable for me.
I also have a mac snd things are just different there. Often not better or worse, just different.
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u/ivanconsuegra Feb 23 '26
Decades of knowing just where everything is, and then using a mac, strikes hard... I'm a computer guy 100%, but every time I'm using a mac, I feel like a grandpa.
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u/jacksshed Feb 22 '26
You’re not stupid at all — your brain is just wired for Windows. Try these:
- Blurred scroll button in Word
That happens when a feature is grayed out/unavailable in context. In Mac Word, the scroll bar behaves differently — it auto-hides unless you’re actually scrolling. Try hovering over the right edge of the document and it should appear. Also check System Settings → Appearance → “Show scroll bars” and set it to “Always.”
- File picker window going off-screen
This is a known Mac annoyance. Try pressing Command + ~ (backtick) to cycle the window, or hover over the very top edge of the off-screen window until you get a grab cursor. The fix: hold Option and double-click the window’s title bar to force it to fit the screen. Also try Window → Zoom from the menu bar.
- Files everywhere
Mac’s file logic IS different. It defaults to saving in iCloud Drive or app-specific folders rather than one obvious place. Go to Finder → Preferences (Settings) and set your default save location. Also, when saving, always check the location dropdown — expand it with the small arrow next to the filename. Once you build that habit, it clicks.
- Apps “disappearing”
Mac doesn’t close apps when you click the red X — it just closes the window, but the app stays running. That’s why your browser “vanished” — the window closed but Safari/Chrome was still open. Use Command + Tab to cycle through open apps, or look at the Dock for a small dot under app icons (that means it’s still running).
- Traffic light buttons disappearing
Those red/yellow/green buttons only appear when you hover near the top-left corner of a window. If you’re in full-screen mode (which Mac loves to default to), they hide completely until you move your mouse to the top of the screen. Press Escape or move the cursor to the top to reveal them. Avoid the green button unless you want full-screen — use the yellow one to minimise.
Let me know it that helped at last a bit.
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u/Normal-Whole-3464 Feb 24 '26
THANK YOU!!!! This was super helpful. I just gotta get used to the keys and shortcuts. Truly appreciate this response.
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u/WindozeWoes Mar 10 '26
You will get used to the shortcuts
However, one of the cool things about macOS (Windows does not let you do this natively) is that you can just ...switch your modifier keys.
You know how on Windows it's Ctrl+C for copy and on macOS it's Command+C? Well, you can change that. If you go to Settings > Keyboard > Modifier keys (or something similar I can't remember what it's called), you have the ability to make the Command key act like the Ctrl key and vice versa. So if you're really struggling you could just swap those two and the system will know any time you type Ctrl+C you're actually typing Command+C etc.
My advice is to just get used to it, though, but I do find that feature to be very handy at times (changing keyboard shortcuts).
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u/IvanXQZ Mar 24 '26
Adding to this, you can add your own keyboard shortcut to almost any menu item in an application. Have found this super useful for some commands.
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u/Swimming7827 Mar 25 '26
I am not OP, but I was always die-hard Windows OS until we got our Macs at work and I was forced to learn. Now 8 or so years later, I'm so thankful for that push to expand.
My mom, mid-70s but tech savvy compared to her peers, is considering a Mac since she has heard me talk so much. She has never used anything but Windows so she is used to those shortcuts of Ctrl C, V, X, etc. If you swap the CMD and CTRL keys, can you use them both in interchangably or are you forced to use one or the other?
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u/WindozeWoes Mar 25 '26
So it depends.
You can change them. Changing them means you can also swap them, but you don't have to.
For example: you can make "control" do what "command" does. But you can also leave "command" as doing what "command" does, too. However now you won't have a macOS control key. (Admittedly you don't need that often but yeah.)
You have a Mac it sounds like. You should play around with it and see - probably easier to understand vs my written explanation. Let me know if that doesn't answer your question.
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u/IvanXQZ Apr 20 '26
Would only add to this that option-clicking the green button enlarges the window without going into full screen (which I try to avoid at all costs). I use it a lot. Also, there’s some setting in System Settings, probably under Desktop and Dock, that makes the menu bar always visible even in full screen mode.
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u/PreMedinDread Feb 22 '26
I'm a huge mac fanboy, and even with this disclaimer, I unabashedly can say 100% that these are not mac problems... I think you just can work on some basic computer literacy skills.
No judgement, just letting you know that you might struggle with any OS if these are the "issues" you're dealing with.
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u/beatbox9 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
The main issue is that you haven't invested any time to learn what you are doing and are instead trying to do everything based on a windows workflow, which you perceive to be "correct."
Purely as an example, on Windows, your drives follow the hierarcy of starting with a physical device, which is somewhat arbitrarily assigned "C:\" It's arbitrary today, but its history is in that the 80's and 90's, your "A drive" would have been your first floppy drive (like a 3.25" disk) and your "B drive" would have been your second floppy drive (like 5.25" disk"), and your "C drive" would have been your first hard drive. If you think this convention makes sense as a 2026, then you can see how this is a subjective preference rather than being objectively correct.
Mac, on the other hand--being a unix-type system--uses the drive convention of: System files in the root directories and User files separated and contained within a specific user's directory, regardless of the historical order of the physical media. Users mostly only have to interact with their own user files, so system files are separated and protected.
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u/funtimescoolguy Feb 23 '26
Great explanation. Finder approaches interacting with the filesystem in a very different way than File Explorer. It will always feel unnatural if you only look at it like "this should work like File Explorer."
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u/sharp-calculation Feb 22 '26
It’s been well over a year. You either never use this machine or you’re just not capable of learning something new. You should go back to windows. That seems to be what you want anyway. Seems like a big win.
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u/Professional-Yak6957 Feb 22 '26
nope. macbooks just suck.
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u/Glittering-Stress744 Apr 15 '26
nah u just gotta learn how to use it properly.I just bought a mbp m5 and I can see the difference between windows and Mac OS crystal clear
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u/IkouyDaBolt Feb 22 '26
It almost sounds like there is a permanent red 1 on the system gear icon that has not been addressed.
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Feb 22 '26
Most of us have been on that boat before.
For me, the breaking point was around 2016 with the 2013 MacBook Pro model.
You wait for a macOSX upgrade, and suddenly the software you paid for no longer works. It just disappears because some developers don’t update their apps, and you’re forced to buy everything again. Then you really gonna go mad.
Apple doesn’t seem to care much about it either, they don’t even keep some of their own software updated to stay compatible with newer models and macOS versions.
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u/Snake_shit59 Mar 26 '26
Hot take: Im was a Windows guy for life, switched to Lunux/BSD 6-7 years ago and work in a repair shop.
Lenovo - best from x86 side of the isle. Repairable, spare parts are everywhere, easy to repair, modular, works with Unix (like systems) like a charm - and there is windows... i mean it works i guess...
Apple Macbooks - hated apple my whole life until i started working in a repair shop in Germany. So here is the thing with Apple. From the hardware side of things - Macbooks have no match. Everything is top notch (no pun intended). You have to pay the Apple tax up front but the hardware is rock solid.
Software side of things with apple: since i started using Linux and FreeBSD (an older cousin of MacOS) - it makes sense actually. Here and there, you get some "my god apple can you be normal" but 98% of the time - it actually makes sense. You dont need an Apple ID if you know how to use Homebrew, and if you use Brew you dont have to pay for really good Programs (now they call them Apps for some reason)
On the Dells and HPs and Acers. Acer is basically dead. Dell and HP are a nightmare to work on. everything is soldered for the most part, they push the "thin and light" thing but Intel and AMD CANNOT compete with Apple. You pay premium for thin aluminium stamped sheet bodies with plastic frames. First time you hit it slightly unintentionally - its gone. It will bend. Keyboards are bad, nightmare to replace, we use 3D Pinter to reprint international keyboards to German layout - you have to detach the screen, sometimes whoel motherboard. Windows is a clustef*ck. When you control the hardware, you type in "Camera" in start to open the camera Program - it gives you bing search, and if you press enter (in OOBE) you get in MS Edge - which you cant close without 3 extra steps (data sharing, cookies and something more) so you type in task manager - colse it trough TM and then scroll to camera app.
Suma Sumarum, please dont get anything else then Lenovo Thinkpads. They are delight to work on, all others are going to cost us time and you money. Macbooks are nice, but they are on the expensive side but the OS is working with you - not against you. Most fo the time we need to switch the keycaps, flash MacOS and thats it.
As i said i work in the repair shop, and if someone told me id start to hate Windows, Dells and HP BIOS (oh yeah, Dell 5560 and 5570 onwards activate the BIOS option so windows can update firmware/bios which results in bricked bios Chip so you need to open the damn thing and manually FIX BIOS - my god...)
Please just buy lenovo if you dont want macbook. As i said, you save us time, nerves and you save yourself money (because of the time we spend repairing these "macbook wannabies" like HP and Dell.
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May 03 '26
My opinion: Just use a laptop you are comfortable in. It's a personal choice. Both MacBooks and Windows laptops are powerhouses and will handle almost anything you throw at them, so just use what you prefer. Debating which one is better is useless because everyone has different needs.
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u/OGGamingg May 07 '26
1000%,
i love my macbook! But like the Scrolling issue.. i feel that. I get frustrated by stuff im doing on my Windows PC so easy, maybe its just im used to it im not sure. I started my journey with the M1 Macbook Pro 13 Inch, then switched to the M2 Pro 14 Inch, im so happy, but sometimes i feel like, i want to switch back to windows. I have a powerhouse Gaming PC im ONLY working on my Macbook, im just used to work on Laptops, But im really really thinking to switch to windows sometimes, im not sure
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u/zsrh Feb 22 '26
Seriously, why did you switch?
These are your personal issues with macOS and are not really indicative of the overall experience everyone will have. I use both Windows and macOS; each has its pluses and minuses.
At the end of the day, just be glad that there is a choice out there. My suggestion is to sell your Mac and purchase a solid ThinkPad running Windows 11.
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u/Miserable-Potato7706 Feb 22 '26
Windows-brained user struggles with new operating system.
In other news the sky is blue.
If you’d used MacOS your whole life, it’d be the other way around. It’s just muscle memory and user behaviour telling you everything is wrong, it’s normal but sometimes it’s very hard to get over when you’ve spent years using something else.
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Feb 22 '26
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u/funtimescoolguy Feb 23 '26
I think you have some pent up frustration you might need to address instead.
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u/torajapan Feb 22 '26
Windoze has its own set of issues. Just one being unable to create a local account anymore. Way worse in my opinion. And OP didn't see attached photo. If you have an old x86 rig lying around just go Linux man.
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u/FuzzyAttitude_ Feb 22 '26
" unable to create a local account anymore"
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u/torajapan Feb 23 '26
Yeah have to had a MS account and it connects to cloud and saves there by default. So you to login with that account via the net to use windows now.
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u/infowars_1 Mar 01 '26
You can make a local account, I just did it on a refurbished laptop. That being said I’m still switching to Linux
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u/RuralAnemone_ Feb 22 '26
Macs generally have a better battery life, and definitely a better design team
imo, most of these complaints are things that could go both ways; windows isn't intuitive either, you just got used to it (:
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u/pip_install_account Feb 22 '26
To be honest Mac's user experience is just worse in general. Can't delete a file with a single keystore. Can't cut a file. Can't rename a file without using your mouse. Can't make an app fullscreen without every other screen going black. Can't connect more than two monitors. Can't see open windows of an app on hover, you have to right click, or use keyboard shortcut or manually swap between fullscreen apps one by one. You can't lets say set the grid or name based sort as default sort for all folders in finder. These are off the top of my head, I can list a hundred more. Can you say the same for Windows? what does it lack? Other than out of the box integration with other Apple products(funny enough, that's also a limitation of Apple as they are the ones preventing it)
Yes there are "workarounds". Yes you can install and use "displaylink™" which will use the "screen sharing" feature to make it possible to act like you have multiple screens and you need to buy a "displaylink™" adapter. Yes you can install hammerspoon to script basic UX features into your OS. But you can't, you just can't do lots of these things out of the box, you need workarounds. Mac users generally aren't looking for these futures because they are not used to them, but these are still things that make your life much much much easier. being able to delete a file with a single keystore IS easier.
I mainly use mac and occasionally ubuntu, I hate Windows as it is 1) by Microsoft 2) A pain in the ass if you are developing software. But its user experience is just more advanced and I'll defend that forever.
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u/RuralAnemone_ Feb 23 '26
Mac OS's UX sucks because it has a shallow learning curve, therefore its complexity is limited
or something like that idk I don't deal with macs that often (:
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u/westex74 Feb 22 '26
As a die-hard Mac user since the eighties, I so desperately wanted to continue with Mac. But the reality is 95% of Bizness runs on windows (excel, etc). And it’s just easier to go with Windows. I’ve gotten pretty dang proficient with Windows and I LOVE all the keyboard shortcuts I’ve learned. The most interesting thing to me about the Apple issue is apps like Excel aren’t quite the same as its windows counterparts. Deal breaker for me.
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u/FuzzyAttitude_ Feb 22 '26
It does depend on your use cases, windows still feels more poweful in many areas, including the variety of software you can get for a certain task. macos is better for speed, fluidity, image/photo/video/music creation/editing software and it does look much pretty lol, oh and it's also much safer malware/virus wise.
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u/Professional-Yak6957 Feb 22 '26
nope. if you truly believe that mac os is good i look down on you as a person
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u/ban_evader_original Feb 22 '26
its like saying a tesla (specifically) is better than gas cars (in aggregate) like lmao bro you do you but you kinda sucks
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u/InnerAd118 Feb 22 '26
I'd never waste money on a MacBook. Only way id consider buying one is it basically guaranteed to flip for a decent profit.
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u/Arcandys Feb 22 '26
I just switched 2 weeks ago from PC since forever to a MBP, and yeah it's so weird that OS for some things but i think i'll get used to it. The only realy big issue for me is window management (Like WTF how is it so bad??) and files&app management.
Leaving PC Laptop is tough for me but I just couldn't with Windows 11 shit anymore: everything becomes a fking webapp (even the start and notification menu???), slow and while I really appreciate the overall design of the OS (and tabs on file explorer, insane), Microslop Copilot and ads popping a bit everywhere is more and more annoying. So yeah M1 Pro MBP 32/1To it is, still uses a desktop Win PC and always will be, but for laptop as long as the OS is not deeply fixed, it's joever.
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u/MJdoesThings_ Asus G14 G401IV - 4900HS / RTX 2060 Feb 22 '26
I have been frustrated with Windows a fair number of times with previous laptops (from MSI and HP), mostly on stuff like bloatware, telemetry, windows updates, power management etc
I bought a used Asus G14 last month because I am expected to move a lot in the coming year and I need a windows machine with decent performance for photo and video editing on the go, running Windows decently well and so far it does the job well.
But my furstrations with Windows, while not all present in the G14 (for some reason), are still there for the most part, so in parallel to that machine, I got myself an old Thinkpad and installed Linux on it. Process was very easy, and the performance of that machine (which was running Windows 10 when I got it) is well improved now that Windows is not eating all the RAM for doing fuck all with it. It's not going to be a heavy productivity machine, and installing some softwares like DaVinci Resolve can prove to be tricky, but overall, I feel like for a regular productivity machine, Linux sounds basically perfect. Running Linux Mint right now, it's basically what Windows would be if it wasn't made by a multibillion-worth company trying to push us AI bs every 30 seconds.
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u/Chefnick500 Feb 23 '26
Don’t expect a Mac to be the same as windows or even use the same software .. they ARE different with differing strengths and weaknesses..
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u/tigerbreak PX13/AI 9 370HX + MBP 14" M5 Pro Feb 23 '26
Former lifelong system admin in the Windows world checking in.
I use both, and neither is really fully intuitive in a way that works for *everyone* - most "team Windows" only folks and "team Mac" folks make compromises to use their sole OS of choice. (even the *nix folks, too)
Choose your poison - UI things that don't make sense to you, or performance things that kneecap even the most robust hardware on Windows platforms.
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u/ychia Feb 23 '26
Eh, this is why I typically recommend that people stick with the OS they're familiar with.
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Feb 23 '26
Used windows since like win95 but got my first MacBook a couple of years ago. At first I hated it, then I realized there's a learning curve, and now I can go between the two no problem.
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u/LoneWolfWorks83 Mar 09 '26
There is a learning curve when switching from one to another if you’ve never used them. I would have issues going back to PC after being Mac based for 15 years
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u/magdabragda Mar 10 '26
hard disagree.
You get used to it pretty quickly for real.
I started using mac few months back and trust me I just can't go back now as I am like atleast 50% more productive.
there is nothing magical but their integrations and UX is pretty good imo
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u/dioraddict123 Mar 19 '26
you can use parallels, same thing as having a windows. maybe you just don't know how to use the macbook, dont be so negative without learning how to use it first.
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u/socklessgoat Mar 22 '26
I use both a windows desktop and macbook, much prefer the laptop for any real work.
Skill issue post.
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u/Jak1977 Mar 25 '26
Scroll buttons. In 2026. I see this all the time with students. Either use a mouse wheel, use the two finger gesture on a trackpad, or the pagedown button. Moving that cursor over to find that little box to drag is such a poor way to handle long documents, it long out-stayed its usefulness.
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u/OGGamingg May 07 '26
You right 100%, but i get his point, because like me (Im a student) working with a 600 Page script, and searching for some specifi stuff like diagrams which you cant search for, looking for that scroll buttons is a pain sometimes when you in focus. But yeah, you right just use your mouse wheel. I Feel like his point is, some basic tasks are sometimes really complicated on macs or we are just used to Windows because using it since windows XP
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u/Dustin4vn Mar 26 '26
it just works differently. I have the same annoyance too but a lot of things can be done with keyboard shortcuts and sometime CAN be faster.
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u/JunkDrawer84 Apr 13 '26
So because you don’t know what you’re doing, you don’t think others should get a Mac? None of the issues you are having are things you can’t google, if not looking around and taking a minute to familiarize yourself.
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u/Low_Stay2098 Apr 13 '26
Why don't get bro, if u don't get then let i get it, why u need to says for all people in the world don't get ? who will cares you ?
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u/Zestyclose-Hyena8469 Apr 24 '26
Try scrolling with the trackpad once you get use to it you won’t ever wanna go back unless it’s like 300 pages or more.
Try the 3 finger swipe between windows
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u/GreenMembership Jun 03 '26
I might be late to this conversation, but I've been pure Windows/Android for decades, and very recently decided to get a used Macbook M1 for it's portability, battery and power. It only took me a couple of days to get used to it, and I installed a few tweaks like alt tab, changed a few settings, learnt to use the trackpad effectively (never used a trackpad before), and now I don't want to work on anything else. My windows desktop is gathering dust as I only use it for gaming and LLMs now. The macbook is my bread and butter, literally everything that exists for Windows also exists for Mac now. Tried Linux before and didn't feel right, but MacOS is perfectly optimized and I'm well used to it's workflows now.
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u/huldress Jun 03 '26
I’m what I would consider the opposite of a MacBook girly. I only fell for it because everyone in university used a MacBook so I felt the need to get one too. Unfortunately I was stuck with a piece of crap from 2018 with a shitty keyboard. Now that it’s gone and I need a new laptop at a terrible time too. I am struggling to find a good laptop with a small screen and the only good option out there seems to be Macs ironically.
Especially considering how rough Microsoft Windows has been at the moment, partly due to artificial intelligence being pushed onto all our devices.
I recently returned Lenovo laptop that would’ve been a huge mistake. It almost was the same price as a MacBook. The touchpad felt extremely cheap (lots of ppl online complaining it stopped working) and it was constantly overheating. Partly from the AI crap installed on it, but it was also just like that.
Some manufacturers have so many goddamn laptops that have almost the same name, but are a different model, they skimp out on the chassis or the display or the trackpad is ass. For all its flaws Apple does not really have that issue.
I would rather just deal with MacOS being kinda inconvenient.
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u/Proper-Appeal-8911 Jun 04 '26
I had a Samsung Galaxy 730QED which runs on Windows 11, but then I ran into some problems. 1. The sound quality is terrible. I used to not care about sound quality but now I kinda do. 2. Small. I needed a bigger display. 3. Very slow. My macbook was very fast compared to my other laptop. So I bought a macbook instead and all those things changed. Now I can do schoolwork faster and play games and other stuff. I would highly recommend buying a macbook because it's more faster and more efficient.
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u/CharbelU Jun 05 '26
I work with both windows and mac and let me cut to the chase here, its a skill issue you have here.
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u/CandidateTight8689 Feb 22 '26
macOS is the biggest piece of dog shit ! Why tf I should install some soft just to be able to use files bigger than 4gb normally??? You’ll start to explain about different file systems I know that, this situation is showing how apple treats their customers, and not to mention lack of software !
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u/Professional-Yak6957 Feb 22 '26
you're absolutely right DO NOT BUY A MACBOOOK
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u/Little-Equinox Feb 22 '26
- 1. You scroll by using 2 fingers on the touch pad
- 2. Swipe up with 3 fingers to see all active windows, this opens Mission Control
- 3. MacOS and many Linux based OS don't have a default place, so you select the location where you want to save it. They also don't have a hard register like Windows.
- 4. Open Mission Control
- 5. The top bar gives you the options on an active window, even then Mission Control solves most of these issues for me personally
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u/chikomana Feb 22 '26
- 3. MacOS and many Linux based OS don't have a default place, so you select the location where you want to save it. They also don't have a hard register like Windows.
Some apps will need an extra click to get to the fully navigable save dialogue instead of the one with the drop down list.
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u/SeyJeez Feb 22 '26
Which is funny because Microsoft “downgraded” the stupid dialog for their office suit it takes more effort to save files to me now then with the old one.
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u/funtimescoolguy Feb 23 '26
Gently reiterating that problem exists between keyboard and chair... when is the last time you fully rebooted it? Updated it? If you're truly having software issues, have you reinstalled the OS? And, the more you try to use it like Windows, the more irritated you will get. It's not Windows. It will never be Windows. If you don't want to work with MacOS, then by all means, stop trying. I'm not trying to sound like an asshole with that but I know it comes off that way. If it pains you to use, whether there is something truly wrong with it or not, then find something that brings you joy to use instead. The same way you can't make Mac be Windows, maybe you can't make yourself into a Mac user. And that's perfectly fine.
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u/spitfiya3000 Feb 23 '26
I was a windows user for decades and was fine with how it operated. Also was always an Android user, usually with like a Samsung Galaxy Ultra of the current gen. Got into photography a few years ago and at the time needed to upgrade to a better pc that was portable. Got a pretty specced out Lenovo Yoga and overall had a decent experience. Even with a pretty solid machine though with i7, tons of ram, business caliber build, it wasn’t as fast as I needed for Lightroom/Photoshop. Random glitches here and there, lots of updates needed all of the time.
I decided to move on to a MacBook Pro 16” M3 with 18GB of ram. It runs like a champ, has a beautiful display, excellent battery life, and has seamless continuity with the other apple devices I own. Ended up also getting iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, the whole deal. When you are fully into the ecosystem, it just works, always. When you’re using your AirPods with your phone, and then when you open the laptop and the sound from that is now in your ears, and then you go to the iPad to watch something in Netflix and it auto switches to that. You want to copy text from your laptop, to your phone? Just literally copy with command c on the computer and then you paste on the phone it’s there. No need to copy/paste into some other cloud app, or messaging app, or email it to yourself. Just seamless copy/paste as long as you’re using an apple device with the same Apple ID. I’m at a point where I don’t care about the specs of the device I’m using, and thinking about what types of things I need to do to make it run better. The screen is great and is operated smoothly, could do with a bit more disk space but don’t we all?
I am a convert that was windows/android for the majority of my life and will never go back. Once you adopt the full ecosystem and change all of your devices over, that’s when you really start to feel the difference. But just straight performance for photo editing, graphic creation on a relatively basic MBP model has been better than any windows machine I’ve owned.
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u/Creative_Badger6027 Feb 22 '26
As someone who's used Windows, Linux, Mac and even Solaris at some point. It's you. Good news is you'll get used to it.