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A Mac handbook for people who already know Windows
寫給 Windows 老鳥的 Mac 新手教戰手冊 ⚔️
About this video
Twelve chapters in twelve minutes, each one a Windows habit that macOS answers differently: a mouse with one button that has to be given a second one, a Control key that becomes Command, a green button that does not maximise, and no Explorer anywhere. Recorded in 2020, so the pane it opens has since been renamed from System Preferences to System Settings, but every mapping it draws between the two systems still holds.
The structure is the argument here: this is not a tour of macOS, it is a list of things a Windows user will get wrong. The order gives that away. Installing and removing software comes at 0:15, before a single preference pane, because the first surprise on a Mac is that there is nothing to install — an app arrives as a disk image, gets dragged into Applications, and is removed the same way.
Right-click at 1:55 is the clearest example of the approach. On the machine the video was recorded on, the second mouse button is not something the operating system assumes; it is a checkbox in the trackpad and mouse panes. A viewer who has used Windows for twenty years has never had to think about that, and the chapter exists to make them think about it once.
The middle section is the one that transfers least well. Windows tiling — drag to the edge, half the screen — has no drag equivalent here; the video treats side-by-side windows as a separate thing to be shown at 6:49, and the green button as something other than maximise. Mission Control arrives at 7:31 with app switching, which is the other place a Windows reflex lands on the wrong key.
File management at 8:08, tags at 10:33 and screenshots at 11:24 are the parts a reader will come back to, and Spotlight at 11:45 is the right ending: it is the one feature that replaces something a Windows user uses constantly — searching from the Start menu — and it is faster than what it replaces.
Recorded in July 2020, so the pane it opens is still called System Preferences and the green button still behaves as it did before macOS 15 gave it tiling options of its own. That is the part of the video that has aged; the mappings have not.
What it covers
- Right-click gets a chapter of its own because on a Mac it is a setting, not something the hardware gives you.
- The video puts installing and removing software before any preference pane, which is the order a Windows user needs: there is no installer to run and no uninstaller to find.
- Side-by-side windows are a menu item rather than a drag to the edge, so the habit has to be relearned rather than ported.
- Spotlight closes the video because it is what a Windows user reaches for the Start menu to do.
Chapters
Chapter times are the creator's own list, published in the video description.
Apps in this video
No app page is linked. The video is about macOS itself — installing software, right-click, windows, Finder, Spotlight — and no third-party utility is named in it, so none is claimed.