What do you find annoying about Mac OS X?

[asdfguy]

So I recently switched from Windows based laptop to a MacBook Pro. I had Windows laptops in the past and they all had issues, like horrible trackpad, bad build quality, etc. I usually spend around £700-800 on laptops and the build quality is no where near good as Apple products. But OS X is incredibly hard to use at times. This is rather ironic coming from a company who brags about how easy it is to use their products.

So here are things that I find really annoying about Mac OS X. Also add your own.

1) No cut and paste. There is no way to cut & paste files in OS X. You can only copy them and go back to the original location of the file and delete it.

2) The green button on the left-hand-side of the window does not maximize – it takes the program to full-screen.

3) No window snapping. In Windows 7, 8 and 10, you can snap each windows to the left, right or moving to the top to maximize. In Mac OS X you have to individually drag the window border to fill-up the screen, like you would do in older version of Windows, like XP, 2000 and 95.

4) Right-click is not enable by default. You have to use control + mouse click. But you can enable right click in the mouse or trackpad settings.

5) Some programs quit when you hit the red button, some don't and they run in the background.

These are mine and the moment; I'll add more when I find more annoying things.

 

[sbi5ar]

3) No window snapping. In Windows 7, 8 and 10, you can snap each windows to the left, right or moving to the top to maximize. In Mac OS X you have to individually drag the window border to fill-up the screen, like you would do in older version of Windows, like XP, 2000 and 95.

Download BetterSnapTool and this will solve your problem (and do a better job)

 

[acbluflame]

1) No cut and paste. There is no way to cut & paste files in OS X. You can only copy them and go back to the original location of the file and delete it.

1. CMD + C
2. CMD + alt/option/⌥ + V

or drag'n'drop - might copy when across different volumes.

 

[v0n]

1) No cut and paste. There is no way to cut & paste files in OS X. You can only copy them and go back to the original location of the file and delete it.

Probably never will be part of Finder. Something to do with legacy users fears of losing data when they close the lid or turn off mac during large cut and paste still going on in the background. But cut and paste is available if you use PathFinder or Xtrafinder instead of Finder for example.

2) The green button on the left-hand-side of the window does not maximize – it takes the program to full-screen.

It's part of the dumbing down OSX since Yosemite. Now you have to ALT-click to maximise (rather than alt-click to go full screen, sigh). You can remap this behaviour via BetterTouchTool as well.

3) No window snapping. In Windows 7, 8 and 10, you can snap each windows to the left, right or moving to the top to maximize. In Mac OS X you have to individually drag the window border to fill-up the screen, like you would do in older version of Windows, like XP, 2000 and 95.

Hate window snapping, most unwelcome feature, one of those annoyances that made me abandon Windows. So many years on, it still surprises me every time I use Windows, I just can't see why anyone would. But as suggested before - there is alternative for OSX.

My annoyances:

- Dumbing down of OSX. Options missing or coders forcing their "leftie/oddball" options on all users by default - the reverse "up is down" mouse scroll, the "full screen it instead of maximising", etc. Then you have the missing options to verify boot disk or to format external drives with third party file systems in El Capitan Disk Utility and so on.

- Dumbing down of Apps and hardware. Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X (or iMovie Pro as it should be called), Aperture to Photo, expandable Mac Pro to "iBin" Mac Pro, swapping nvidia (CUDA acceleration) for shockingly bad at drivers ATI in all Pro machines - it's quite clear Apple hates the markets that made it - it wants video editors and photographers to ef off and die.

- Memory management still stuck in nineties in many ways. "Your system has run out of application memory". No it hasn't. You just let some terribly written website to leak memory in the background and then you artificially applied limit to swap file size. Better yet - since OSX can dump and lock memory per application - let me decide in System Preferences max memory a single program can use just so one rogue advert in browser doesn't overload the entire system and while we at it, why don't you let me decide how big/how many swap files to create before entire system "runs out of application memory".

 

[beachBOYken]

5) Some programs quit when you hit the red button, some don't and they run in the background..

This.

And login screen tap click. I have tap to click enabled on trackpad for both users which are always logged in.
Login screen switch user works with tap but tap click on a user to enter password needs an actual click of the trackpad. Things like this make it very odd.

 

[koolpc]

I used Apple for several weeks as i had to and i thoroughly hated it!

 

[bloodiedathame]

1) No cut and paste. There is no way to cut & paste files in OS X. You can only copy them and go back to the original location of the file and delete it.

Cmd+C then alt+cmd+v

3) No window snapping. In Windows 7, 8 and 10, you can snap each windows to the left, right or moving to the top to maximize. In Mac OS X you have to individually drag the window border to fill-up the screen, like you would do in older version of Windows, like XP, 2000 and 95.

Better snap tool app is excellent for this

Some of mine:

1) Apps all decide to open after hard reset
2) So many "are you sure" dialogue boxes
3) Things that are there 1 minute, then gone the next (Airplay support from sound pref pane)
4) Terrible performance handling large numbers of files
5) Browsing files in finder, you see the one you want, are just about to click it, then finder decides to reorder the whole ****ing window.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I don't find anything annoying, OSX works in a fantastic way but I guess it's what you get used too.

 

[timmeh]

2) The green button on the left-hand-side of the window does not maximize – it takes the program to full-screen.

Double clicking on the windows chrome/ title bar (the bar with the max, min, close buttons in), whatever you call it also maximises the window too.

I only ever run windows in the new 'full-screen' mode. Makes dev work a lot easier as I can just slide between my editor and browsers.

 

[randal]

Of late, the gimped Disk Utility on Yosemite. It's something I use frequently at work, and it's not a shadow of it's former useful self.

Having to dip into command line to do stuff you could previously do with 2-3 clicks is kind of annoying. Hardly world-ending stuff but hey.

 

[lamboman]

Poor window management and Apple's refusal to improve it, OS X's instability for goodness knows how many years (sorry but El Capitan still doesn't cut it), poor performance (partially due to instability), Disk Utility (this is a big one, it never works). I don't want to have to buy numerous additional tools in order to gain basic functionality, I want it to be present out of the box. Many of the add-on tools that I've used to add extra functionality to Finder are unstable to the point where they're not worth the hassle (XtraFinder and Flashlight are prime examples of this).

My biggest issue with Apple as of late has been that when things work, they work brilliantly, however with many problems there isn't a fix in sight. iCloud is still patchy (keyboard sync still doesn't work properly for me, again, no fix). Safari still hangs all the time for me after three versions of OS X, with no solution in sight. Numerous little freezes in iOS and OS X. The frustrating part is that they're perfectly capable of making things work properly (heck, look at USB 3.0, a complete ****-up industry wide yet Apple have no issues with it).

It's enough to have pushed me to move to Linux full time, however I certainly don't view OS X as being worse, just different.

Apple make fantastic products however, and I still believe they are all the most complete packages out there by a mile.

As far as I'm concerned, they're all not Windows - they're all not trying to force a broken GUI on you for starters - and that's fine by me.

 

[MagicBoy]

The OP has typical Windows switcher gripes. Lest we forget, Apple mass produced the first affordable computer with a GUI. A lot of the concepts that are unfamiliar to switchers (like closing the window not quitting the application and the "maximise" button behaviour) are inherited from the classic Macintosh System/Mac OS. Which Microsoft and others went on to badly replicate. It's not wrong, just different.

Finder can be a bit clunky on occasions, and I detested how they broke Spaces after OS X 10.6. On the whole it's a very stable operating system and I prefer it to Windows.

 

[lamboman]

Truth be told I didn't even read the OP. In all fairness some of the gripes are easily understandable and don't make sense - cut and paste being the prime one for a huge number of users (so many don't know that you can cut and paste files on OS X: Cmd+C, then Cmd+Alt+V).

I'd say that once you learn about these quirks (or install utilities to change the behaviour to what you'd expect), OS X will make sense.