for my entire adult life Macs have been more expensive than PCS while being
simultaneously useless for gaming so the
bugs quirks and outright bad decisions that Apple has made in the development
of macOS never really affected me outside of the few isolated instances
where I was forced to use it however Linus Media Group has more daily Mac
users than ever before and even they
agree there are a shocking number of Mac
OS deficiencies some that Linux and Windows solves 10 or even 20 years ago
and if Apple would address them it could improve their workflow reduce daily
frustrations and generally boost the user friendliness of the operating
system so with the help of our team and our community we've put together this
list of ways that we think macOS falls short of Apple's just works philosophy
and how they could be done better and
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right off the top I want to make it clear that we are talking about the
stock operating system not apps like better touch tool or snap tool or Magnet
or anything like that if you have to download a third-party app to fix it it
doesn't count anything out of the box from Apple is fair game though so let's
jump straight into the big one corner snapping Linus and a small handful of
others have been calling attention to the lack of this feature for years at
this point on macOS you cannot by
default snap a window by dragging it around it just moves two apples credit
they do give you options when you click and hold the green button and even more
options if you also hold down the appropriately named option key on the
keyboard but this is miles away from the Simplicity offered by Windows behold
drag and drop a window to the side you want it on and it will snap in place and
resize automatically even with multiple monitors stuck using a touchpad Windows
still has you covered press the arrow keys while holding the Win key and the
active window moves accordingly you don't have to awkwardly drag it around
and that's just what Windows does out of the box Microsoft even extends the power
of their Corner snapping with a first party tool called Fancy zones which is
part of their power toys line of utilities designed to give control back
to the power users who want that extra degree of customization virtual desktops
actually used to be a power toy it's a real shame that Apple doesn't offer a
similar Suite of programs for their power users they did introduce stage
manager with the recent Ventura upgrade but control over window placement still
lags behind other operating systems if you do want that level of control you're
going to be looking at one of the many third-party Solutions like better snap
tool Magnet or swish but get your wallet
ready because these are all paid apps while we're on the topic of active
application management the weird full screen behavior in Macos is another
popular point of friction we're not going to comment on the inclusion of a
notch on laptop screen but my brother in Christ Apple you cannot change the
meaning of the words full screen just because of that as a wild and crazy
suggestion we think the option to automatically hide and show the menu bar
when in full screen should probably do what it says and hide the damn menu bar
not just the text that is not free real estate and I want it back and the
current implementation is different from one app to the next if you enter full
screen mode from a non-full-screen Firefox window the menu bar and traffic
lights don't appear but if you do the same thing from chrome or Safari they do
and to further complicate things if you enter full screen on Firefox before
doing a full screen video now they do appear and you know what the way that
the traffic light buttons are handled currently differs from app to app as
well though it really shouldn't full screen calendar and Safari have them
animate from left to right in maps and notes they fade in instead and in
messages and the App Store a bar slides down from the top so you can't click on
what's underneath the damn bar the worst part is that a lot of the time there's
enough room for them to just stay there but they disappear anyway why hide them
in the first place to fix this apple either needs to give developers a single
set of rules for handling this UI element or give users an option in the
system settings that forces the colored buttons to always stay visible just like
you can stay visible in our new color block hoodies at ltcstore.com also
annoyingly absent from the settings menu is an option to decouple the scroll
direction of the touchpad from the scroll direction of the Magic Mouse this
may sound ungodly to some but it's a
really popular gripe like it or not though you're stuck scrolling in the
same direction on the Magic Mouse as on the touchpad
and I hate natural scrolling because
even though there are two separate options for this in the menu they're
linked to solve this just use a third-party mouse that has its own
software our final missing setting has to do with
multiple monitors as it currently stands the dock will move any monitor that your
mouse happens to brush along the bottom of unless that is you change the
displays have separate spaces option which doesn't seem like it should affect
the dock but it does it's natural scrolling on on this teleprompter thing
yes really are you trolling me with this
what is what is up and what is down like the other missing options we mentioned
you personally might love the default Behavior but that doesn't mean that the
people who don't like the out-of-box experience should have to suffer I did
not write this I should end out a few extra toggle options would be a long way
for a lot of folks here I definitely did not write this I like the out of box
experience and it's been a big argument in the research of this video this leads
us to something that actually prevented me from switching to daily driving a
Macbook or I did switch but I'm just really mad about it using external
displays using multiple external displays requires choosing an M1 Pro Max
or Ultra equip machine if you've got a system with a base M1 or M2 you're
limited to a single external display this is despite the Thunderbolt enabled
USBC ports on the M1 and M2 but slow
down this sounds like Hardware talk though it certainly affects modern Mac
OS machines so where does the hardware end and the software begin Market
segmentation that's where see the single Thunderbolt bus on the systems with the
base M1 or M2 could easily drive more
than one external display like it does on the XPS 15 but especially in the case
of the MacBook Air that would be stepping on the toes of the higher end
Apple products and what's the easiest way to encourage people to spend more on
features they need artificial limitations and then most frustrating
part is it used to be better Intel based airs had no trouble outputting to
multiple monitors ah on the topic of
limitations macOS also limits you in terms of audio there's no way of setting
the volume of individual applications this is something that Windows
introduced in 2007 with the release of Vista and Linux distros like Ubuntu
followed suit shortly afterwards in 2008 because it was a good idea but 15 years
later macOS still only has one master volume slider I mean you're not doing
more than one thing at a time on your computer are you really you can
ostensibly control this by creating your own multi-output device in the audio
midi app but this is a clunky solution and has to be redone for every
additional application you want to control it's maddeningly complex a far
cry from the simple and accessible menus of Windows and Ubuntu I do have problems
with Windows now here's some rapid fire pain points that deserve a mention
there's no way to create a new file through finder even if you're already in
the location you want the file to be saved checking Ethernet connectivity and
speed is buried in a couple sub menus and in general we wonder why Apple seems
to hate Ethernet when it's so much better than Wi-Fi and having the option
to get a preview when hovering over an open application in the dock would be
massively helpful just give us the option you love
animations ultimately a lot of the choices Apple has made come down to a
difference in how they expect their software will or should be used Windows
for example has a massive presence in the Enterprise and business world where
support for legacy systems is critical and Windows tends to hold on then to
features that these systems might need in order to function properly even if no
one else needs them meanwhile Apple tends to take a more forward-looking
approach out with the old in with the new a prime example would be that
Windows 11 no longer supports 32-bit processors but it does still support
32-bit applications with no end in sight then there's Linus Torvalds who just a
few weeks ago was discussing the possibility of maybe one day perhaps
removing support for the Intel 486 microprocessor a 33 year old chip that
tops out at 0.1 gigahertz Apple also
makes it a point to think different which can sometimes lead to much better
integration and functionality one thing I like about macOS is that it keeps
like everything kind of compartmentalized so if you download an
application and install it it's in the applications folder and that's just
where it is it's got a really powerful terminal by default these days you're
getting zsh and you also have like Python and Ruby pre-installed like you
had pretty much everything you need to in order to just do whatever you want
out of the box uh it doesn't have Windows modern standby Windows modern
standby can just suckle my
um I don't think I can say that but oh
but thinking different can also lead to
a stubborn unwillingness to adopt a better method of accomplishing a task
seemingly because they're just salty that someone else thought of it first
at any rate love them or hate them Apple's differences contribute nicely to
our conclusion here there's just no such thing as a perfect operating system
whether you're greeted by an apple a window a cute penguin or hey even a
sword in Scales when you boot your PC there's going to be an element of
imperfection and that's okay blindly being a fanboy of anything is bad but
being the kind of Enthusiast that will take the time to see and understand the
flaws then give feedback about a product that you love
well that's pretty cool and even if it
wouldn't turn me team macOS anytime soon we would genuinely love to see the
imperfections that we highlighted get the attention they deserve for macOS
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the end we hope the issues we mentioned are as annoying to you as they are to us
and it didn't just feel like nitpicking in small details if you want to hear
more about the positive aspects of macOS we've got a video showcasing 10 ways
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