Hey dellboy, and welcome aboard! I guess we’ll have to call you macboy from now on.dellboy wrote: Sun Jan 25, 2026 10:43 am So, after reading comments in this thread I splashed out and bought a new M4 Mac Mini on Friday. Before this I had been on Windows 11 on a laptop.
Like most things in life there are pros and cons do far. The Core Audio aspect is mostly a Pro, except I now have to "eject" the drive of my Kurzweil K2700 before shutting down? (it has a built in audio interface).
Folders seem to proliferate everywhere and I am constanly closing them. I gave up trying to install my Aruria software because it kept asking for my password over and over. Probably a lot of my problems are newbie, but in many ways I prefer Windows OS. I did manage to setup with just a local account though. Will things get better over time as I learn the OS?
It gets easier. For me, the most annoying things going from Windows to macOS was the reverse scrolling and having to hold Command when deleting files with the Del key. I still keep my scroll direction reversed in Settings and have the Trash bin in my toolbar.
Another thing is that when you click the
to close, you are actually only closing the window. The application itself stays running, so you need to go to Quit, or hit command+Q. You can customize a lot about what you do and don’t see, and how folders, menus, toolbars, drives, etc are displayed. You’ll figure it out.
If you use the Arturia Software Center, you should only have to put in your password once. You can change your password to something really short, like a single keystroke, but you need to do this terminal command to remove the minimum 4-character limit:
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pwpolicy -clearaccountpolicies
I actually like Reaper—it’s flexible, powerful, stable, and efficient—like Linux. 