Love My Mac, But It Is Also Annoying

Mac isn’t as polished as I had hoped. Launcher app and app management is in general not that great, I realized. Well, no other operating system is any better, but I always thought macOS would be better.

macOS has weird cursor issues when you are trying to launch an app or even trying to click somewhere in the app. It shows an up arrow instead of the regular pointer. That was very jarring for me because I didn’t know what was going on. I thought I was pressing a button on the keyboard. But nope, sometimes it likes doing that.

Launcher where you launch your apps glitches or crashes. Especially after I install an app, either from the store or from the web, it doesn’t show up there even though it is in the apps folder. Some newly installed apps cause it to crash, which I have no idea why since its only job is to show them so I can click on them. Well, it also lets you uninstall them. Again, well, you drag the app to the trash bin and it asks you if you want to uninstall it, but then it does not do that for every app. I end up having to go to the applications folder in Finder to be able to remove an app.

Also, it turns out apps create other files that get left behind after you uninstall them. So basically, it ain't all that better than the other OS that are available. I had high hopes for macOS.

There are not many interesting apps for macOS as well. I find it hard to discover new apps. The Mac App Store is filled with lackluster apps that pretty much just cash grab or are useless.

Some apps actually come with installing wizards like on Windows. Some apps get flagged as insecure even though I know they are secure. And if I want to use them, I have to hunt down a setting that is buried in the iPhone settings app that looks out of place on macOS. (It is in the Privacy and Security tab, and you scroll down the bottom.)

The settings app. Just why? They insist on macOS being different from other software, and Macs don’t have touchscreens because they are optimized for touchpad and keyboard, but the most important part of the OS is iPad-optimized apps that don’t even fit the screen of a Mac.

Also, you can see the lag while dragging. That happens to me all the time. My Mac is an M3 Air with 16GB of RAM. I don’t think it is that outdated as of 2025.

Lately, I cannot use my fingerprint for the App Store or iTunes. Turns out that setting suddenly got turned off. Now, you have to go to the settings, click on the Apple account, after that, click on the media & purchases, and in there, you will see the option to turn on “use Touch ID for Purchases”. It may not work immediately. You may have to go back and try to turn it on because it turned itself off automagically. Let’s hope they didn’t find a security problem with Touch ID and that is the reason it suddenly got turned off.

I still don’t like the app switching on Mac. When I do command-tab, it doesn’t bring up a minimized window. My Chrome window is minimized; I can see it down there, but if I command-tab and choose Chrome, nothing happens other than the menu bar above changes. If you like Stage Manager, that solves that problem, but you have to deal with Stage Manager now. Because now you cannot see your minimized apps if your app is filling the screen. Like Windows 8, you should hit the left side of your screen with your mouse to see them. It brings them faster than Windows 8, so at least you don’t have to worry about if you did it correctly.