Mac has supported the same protocol - SMB - for connecting to servers as Windows does for several years now, though it also still uses Apple’s proprietary file protocol AFP. In Windows, though, there are tools in the toolbar for copying, pasting, and moving files, whereas on the Mac, to copy and paste files, you need to either use a keyboard shortcut or Control-click on a file or folder and choose an option from the dropdown menu. Sure, you can drag and drop files between folders in both systems, and you can create shortcuts to folders in both. However, they do it in very different ways. File Explorer vs Finderįile Explorer and the Finder do very similar jobs – they allow you to organise, open, move and remove files. If you start working on a document in, say, Word, on one system and plan to switch to the other, and want it to look the same on both, you should choose a font, such as Arial, that’s available on both. There are, however, several fonts that are common to both. For example, you won’t find Calibri on a Mac, or Helvetica Neue on a PC. MacOS and Windows have different system fonts installed. When that happens, there’s not a lot you can do except go and make a cup of coffee and wait for the update to finish.
While in macOS, you control when system updates are installed - via the Updates section of the Mac App Store - Windows system very often takes it upon itself to start updating your PC, seemingly at random. This is one that frequently frustrates Mac users.
It’s worth remembering that if you don’t want the application to quit, you should keep a window open. While on Mac, clicking on the red button in the top left corner closes the window, but leaves the application open, even if all the windows are closed, clicking the red button on the last open window in a PC application quits the whole application. Application windowsĪpplication windows work differently on a PC. So if you want to use a keyboard shortcut on a PC, try using the same shortcut as on the Mac, but with Control instead of Command. For example, copy and paste on a Mac is Command+C and Command+V. Lots of shortcuts that use the Command key on the Mac can be replicated on a PC by swapping command for Control. Windows keyboard shortcuts tend to use either the Control or Windows keys. That’s because most common keyboard shortcuts on the Mac use the Command key and there’s no equivalent of the Command key on a PC keyboard. If you use lots of keyboard shortcuts on your Mac, you’ll know that they don’t work on a PC. Switching between Mac and PC can be frustrating, but with the help of the tips we’ve listed below, it will be a lot easier. If you use both a Mac and a PC, perhaps Windows at work and a Mac at home, you’ll know that while they do similar things and in many cases run the same applications, there are lots of differences between the two.
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