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Since Apple clearly doesn't care, it would be great to have an app that saves the Finder window size to what you want, not Apple.
Right now it's not hard to circumvent this Apple bs but every time the computer reboots you have to do it all over again and resize the Finder window back to the size you want.
So ridiculous to even have to do this.
 
Do you also jump in and talk about helping Mac users when they try to stick to/emulate past versions of how their Apple devices work (like pre-liquid glass perhaps), or is your help reserved specifically for Windows-like behavior?

This whole post is about changing the way Apple devices work, and cluttering them up with software that help with this, so is all of that bad as it means that we're not using our Apple devices the Apple-designed way?

I've got BetterTouchTool to switch between tabs in ways that Macs can't do, I've got HazeOver to focus on front windows, I've got VLC to get a different UI playing videos, the way that I use virtual displays on Macs goes back to habits formed on Solaris in the 90s, and I buy all my keyboards in a heavier taxed region only because my muscle memory prefer that physical layout, and so on.

I could use any default configured Apple device as long as it's set to a language I at least sort of know, but it'd be slow work that'd make me all kinds of irritated. So, here's the question:

What's the difference between me doing my "pro setup" to get my preferred configuration, as compared to someone wanting functionality that just happens to be more like how Windows currently works?

Why is my pro stuff a good thing, while Windows stuff is negatively viewed? Why do you get the urge to "help" Windows users, but don't get the urge to "help" Mac users not change the defaults that Apple currently has set?
I am all for users customizing their systems however they want to for what helps their workflow. There are third party utilities that make that possible, and those utilities are great if people want them. That said, the OOB experience of a fresh MacOS experience I find superior to the OOB Windows experience (and I probably overall have more experience with Windows than Mac since I have used Windows professionally for 25 years vs a Mac privately for about 15 years). I would hate to see Apple adopt any Windows multitasking features as part of the OOB experience more so than what they already have. I feel that MacOS does a better job of getting out of my way for my task at hand than Windows does. Specifically, I would not trade Mac OS’s spaces across multiple displays for anything windows has. Windows has also gotten dramatically worse with Copilot becoming like a system wide Clippy.
 
I am all for users customizing their systems however they want to for what helps their workflow. There are third party utilities that make that possible, and those utilities are great if people want them. That said, the OOB experience of a fresh MacOS experience I find superior to the OOB Windows experience (and I probably overall have more experience with Windows than Mac since I have used Windows professionally for 25 years vs a Mac privately for about 15 years). I would hate to see Apple adopt any Windows multitasking features as part of the OOB experience more so than what they already have. I feel that MacOS does a better job of getting out of my way for my task at hand than Windows does. Specifically, I would not trade Mac OS’s spaces across multiple displays for anything windows has. Windows has also gotten dramatically worse with Copilot becoming like a system wide Clippy.
There were a lot of ”I” there, which has nothing to do with what other people actually said that they like and preferred.

Good for you that you’ve found what you like, but that’s not something that you can, as you did earlier, inject as some form of objective argument against helping those more comfortable with certain windows things work easier on a Mac.

It’s not ”junking up” simply because their preferences aren’t the same as yours, right?!
 
There were a lot of ”I” there, which has nothing to do with what other people actually said that they like and preferred.

Good for you that you’ve found what you like, but that’s not something that you can, as you did earlier, inject as some form of objective argument against helping those more comfortable with certain windows things work easier on a Mac.

It’s not ”junking up” simply because their preferences aren’t the same as yours, right?!
Windows is kind of a mess with too many ways to do the same thing. Honestly, I care about the topic a lot less than you do.
 
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