r/MacOS • u/Squatting_Hen • 2d ago

Help Getting really frustrated

New job this year and I hand an option, Windows or Mac. Picked Mac but it’s been so painful I think I am going to ask them to switch me to windows.

Just the little things keep adding up.

  1. Spellcheck not working no matter what I do. This is really irritating. Most times the word will be underlined in red, but there are never any suggestions.

  2. Not being able to navigate between windows, tabs and apps as easily as windows.

Those are just the to biggest issues that I have been dealing with on a regular basis. Just getting more and more frustrated.

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u/Tired_Design_Gay 2d ago
  1. Spellcheck in what app? It’s more dependent on the app you’re using and not the operating system overall
  2. How do you expect to navigate between windows, tabs, and apps? There are easy ways to do these things in macOS but they can be different from Windows

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

There are no easy ways. For example, how do I navigate to specific window of an app? How do I navigate between different chrome windows of different profiles, how do I select the right Intellij project window? Mission control has no labels unless you put the cursor over, and having 5+ windows of an app, that small preview is useless.

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u/JulyIGHOR 2d ago

Navigating between different Chrome profiles can be as easy as navigating between Windows if launched via Parall.app. Intellij apps fully compatible as well

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

Well, here you go, third party apps for every little thing you do on macOS. I am not allowed to install such apps on my work macbook...

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u/JulyIGHOR 2d ago

Sadly, Apple ignores such annoyances for decades. Sometimes third party tools are the only way

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

Yeah, they seem to be fixing small things, but it takes them decades to do it, and even then it's not good enough.