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for my entire adult life Macs have been more expensive than PCS while being

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simultaneously useless for gaming so the

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bugs quirks and outright bad decisions that Apple has made in the development

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of macOS never really affected me outside of the few isolated instances

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where I was forced to use it however Linus Media Group has more daily Mac

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users than ever before and even they

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agree there are a shocking number of Mac

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OS deficiencies some that Linux and Windows solves 10 or even 20 years ago

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and if Apple would address them it could improve their workflow reduce daily

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frustrations and generally boost the user friendliness of the operating

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system so with the help of our team and our community we've put together this

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list of ways that we think macOS falls short of Apple's just works philosophy

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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

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stock operating system not apps like better touch tool or snap tool or Magnet

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or anything like that if you have to download a third-party app to fix it it

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doesn't count anything out of the box from Apple is fair game though so let's

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jump straight into the big one corner snapping Linus and a small handful of

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others have been calling attention to the lack of this feature for years at

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this point on macOS you cannot by

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default snap a window by dragging it around it just moves two apples credit

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they do give you options when you click and hold the green button and even more

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options if you also hold down the appropriately named option key on the

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keyboard but this is miles away from the Simplicity offered by Windows behold

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drag and drop a window to the side you want it on and it will snap in place and

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resize automatically even with multiple monitors stuck using a touchpad Windows

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still has you covered press the arrow keys while holding the Win key and the

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active window moves accordingly you don't have to awkwardly drag it around

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and that's just what Windows does out of the box Microsoft even extends the power

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of their Corner snapping with a first party tool called Fancy zones which is

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part of their power toys line of utilities designed to give control back

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to the power users who want that extra degree of customization virtual desktops

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actually used to be a power toy it's a real shame that Apple doesn't offer a

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similar Suite of programs for their power users they did introduce stage

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manager with the recent Ventura upgrade but control over window placement still

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lags behind other operating systems if you do want that level of control you're

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going to be looking at one of the many third-party Solutions like better snap

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tool Magnet or swish but get your wallet

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ready because these are all paid apps while we're on the topic of active

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application management the weird full screen behavior in Macos is another

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popular point of friction we're not going to comment on the inclusion of a

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notch on laptop screen but my brother in Christ Apple you cannot change the

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meaning of the words full screen just because of that as a wild and crazy

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suggestion we think the option to automatically hide and show the menu bar

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when in full screen should probably do what it says and hide the damn menu bar

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not just the text that is not free real estate and I want it back and the

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current implementation is different from one app to the next if you enter full

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screen mode from a non-full-screen Firefox window the menu bar and traffic

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lights don't appear but if you do the same thing from chrome or Safari they do

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and to further complicate things if you enter full screen on Firefox before

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doing a full screen video now they do appear and you know what the way that

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the traffic light buttons are handled currently differs from app to app as

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well though it really shouldn't full screen calendar and Safari have them

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animate from left to right in maps and notes they fade in instead and in

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messages and the App Store a bar slides down from the top so you can't click on

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what's underneath the damn bar the worst part is that a lot of the time there's

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enough room for them to just stay there but they disappear anyway why hide them

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in the first place to fix this apple either needs to give developers a single

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set of rules for handling this UI element or give users an option in the

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system settings that forces the colored buttons to always stay visible just like

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annoyingly absent from the settings menu is an option to decouple the scroll

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direction of the touchpad from the scroll direction of the Magic Mouse this

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may sound ungodly to some but it's a

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really popular gripe like it or not though you're stuck scrolling in the

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same direction on the Magic Mouse as on the touchpad

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and I hate natural scrolling because

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even though there are two separate options for this in the menu they're

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linked to solve this just use a third-party mouse that has its own

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software our final missing setting has to do with

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multiple monitors as it currently stands the dock will move any monitor that your

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mouse happens to brush along the bottom of unless that is you change the

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displays have separate spaces option which doesn't seem like it should affect

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the dock but it does it's natural scrolling on on this teleprompter thing

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yes really are you trolling me with this

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what is what is up and what is down like the other missing options we mentioned

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you personally might love the default Behavior but that doesn't mean that the

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people who don't like the out-of-box experience should have to suffer I did

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not write this I should end out a few extra toggle options would be a long way

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for a lot of folks here I definitely did not write this I like the out of box

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experience and it's been a big argument in the research of this video this leads

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us to something that actually prevented me from switching to daily driving a

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Macbook or I did switch but I'm just really mad about it using external

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displays using multiple external displays requires choosing an M1 Pro Max

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or Ultra equip machine if you've got a system with a base M1 or M2 you're

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limited to a single external display this is despite the Thunderbolt enabled

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USBC ports on the M1 and M2 but slow

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down this sounds like Hardware talk though it certainly affects modern Mac

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OS machines so where does the hardware end and the software begin Market

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segmentation that's where see the single Thunderbolt bus on the systems with the

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base M1 or M2 could easily drive more

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than one external display like it does on the XPS 15 but especially in the case

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of the MacBook Air that would be stepping on the toes of the higher end

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Apple products and what's the easiest way to encourage people to spend more on

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features they need artificial limitations and then most frustrating

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part is it used to be better Intel based airs had no trouble outputting to

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multiple monitors ah on the topic of

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limitations macOS also limits you in terms of audio there's no way of setting

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the volume of individual applications this is something that Windows

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introduced in 2007 with the release of Vista and Linux distros like Ubuntu

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followed suit shortly afterwards in 2008 because it was a good idea but 15 years

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later macOS still only has one master volume slider I mean you're not doing

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more than one thing at a time on your computer are you really you can

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ostensibly control this by creating your own multi-output device in the audio

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midi app but this is a clunky solution and has to be redone for every

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additional application you want to control it's maddeningly complex a far

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cry from the simple and accessible menus of Windows and Ubuntu I do have problems

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with Windows now here's some rapid fire pain points that deserve a mention

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there's no way to create a new file through finder even if you're already in

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the location you want the file to be saved checking Ethernet connectivity and

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speed is buried in a couple sub menus and in general we wonder why Apple seems

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to hate Ethernet when it's so much better than Wi-Fi and having the option

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to get a preview when hovering over an open application in the dock would be

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massively helpful just give us the option you love

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animations ultimately a lot of the choices Apple has made come down to a

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difference in how they expect their software will or should be used Windows

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for example has a massive presence in the Enterprise and business world where

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support for legacy systems is critical and Windows tends to hold on then to

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features that these systems might need in order to function properly even if no

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one else needs them meanwhile Apple tends to take a more forward-looking

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approach out with the old in with the new a prime example would be that

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Windows 11 no longer supports 32-bit processors but it does still support

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32-bit applications with no end in sight then there's Linus Torvalds who just a

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few weeks ago was discussing the possibility of maybe one day perhaps

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removing support for the Intel 486 microprocessor a 33 year old chip that

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tops out at 0.1 gigahertz Apple also

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makes it a point to think different which can sometimes lead to much better

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integration and functionality one thing I like about macOS is that it keeps

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like everything kind of compartmentalized so if you download an

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application and install it it's in the applications folder and that's just

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where it is it's got a really powerful terminal by default these days you're

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getting zsh and you also have like Python and Ruby pre-installed like you

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had pretty much everything you need to in order to just do whatever you want

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out of the box uh it doesn't have Windows modern standby Windows modern

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standby can just suckle my

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um I don't think I can say that but oh

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but thinking different can also lead to

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a stubborn unwillingness to adopt a better method of accomplishing a task

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seemingly because they're just salty that someone else thought of it first

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at any rate love them or hate them Apple's differences contribute nicely to

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our conclusion here there's just no such thing as a perfect operating system

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whether you're greeted by an apple a window a cute penguin or hey even a

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sword in Scales when you boot your PC there's going to be an element of

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imperfection and that's okay blindly being a fanboy of anything is bad but

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being the kind of Enthusiast that will take the time to see and understand the

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flaws then give feedback about a product that you love

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well that's pretty cool and even if it

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wouldn't turn me team macOS anytime soon we would genuinely love to see the

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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

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and it didn't just feel like nitpicking in small details if you want to hear

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more about the positive aspects of macOS we've got a video showcasing 10 ways

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that it is just flat out superior to the competition shout out to the Apple

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ecosystem in particular that's a game

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changer for many