How long to get used to macos?

[Mike Boreham]

just started using mac 2 days ago. played around it for a bit, some very neat futures, really nice.

but they seem useless, and im realizing that maybe its just too much?

how long did it take you to get used to mac os? its very diff. from windows 7.

Spend time Customising System Prefs, the menu bar and the Dock and especially customising the Toolbar in every app you use, starting with Finder.

I have helped relatives new to Apple do this, and for them it has been like changing out of first gear, because they've discovered that the gearbox can make the car go faster!

 

[swerve147]

I don't understand the windows way of maximizing everything, apart from wasting screen space it does nothing.

If a webpage is 900 pixels wide, it doesn't need a browser window that is any wider, you're just adding blank, useless spaces on either side of it.

I make windows as big as they need to be to see what I need to see, any bigger is wasted and could be used for another app.

It's a Windows thing. In the Windows environment if you want to quickly focus on a single item/webpage/document/file, it's a simple Maximize Window button click on the window frame. Hitting the green plus button in OS X doesn't defocus everything else on your desktop as efficiently and in quite the same manner.

I'm assuming the OS X response is to just go Full Screen on an app to defocus everything else, but while in full screen you don't have the ability to see your other windows tucked away on the bottom ready to be pulled up at your whim. The Maximize button in Windows affords you the psychological comfort of seeing other windows available at the point and click of a mouse tucked away in the bottom, while practically giving you 100% focus on the Window at hand.

Mac doesn't quite have this option native to OS X.

 

[iphonehype]

Took me about a day or so of constant use....simple OS....Spotlight is the life saver?

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[glenthompson]

I highly recommend David Pogue's book Switching to the Mac. It provides the translation of typical Windows activities into Mac OS X. Using this book, I felt up to speed in a few days.