4 Things I Miss From Windows After Switching to macOS

Dom Kwolczak
5 min readJul 28, 2024
Photo by Sebastian Bednarek on Unsplash

I switched from Windows to macOS around eight months ago, and I’ve enjoyed the experience so far.

Having grown up using Windows, I used it at home, at school, at university, and now in my professional life, where I manage both the desktop and server versions.

Over the years, I’ve had run-ins with macOS and even owned a few MacBook models.

My favourite was a mid-2012 MacBook Pro, which I purchased second-hand on eBay. I liked it because it was upgradable. I remember upgrading the hard drive to a faster solid-state drive and the memory from 4 GB to 8 GB, which seems almost unimaginable in this day and age.

Switching to macOS changed everything for me.

It meant finding new software and apps to replace many of the ones I was familiar with. It also meant learning the ins and outs of macOS, which I was a bit rusty with after not using it full-time in a few years.

So far, I’ve enjoyed the experience and the novelty of using something different in my everyday life.

But as much as I am enjoying the macOS, there are a few things that I miss from Windows. In this article, I will discuss four of those things.

So without any further ado, here are 4 things I miss from Windows after…

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Dom Kwolczak

I'm Dom, a tech and productivity enthusiast living in the UK. I share stories about my experience with tech, reviews, tips and more. www.beacons.ai/techwithdom