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Bought a MacBook and about to work on the 'dark side' half the time. Are here any hybrid users doung the same and have You customized Your macs? Is it a thing in Macos or impossible? Some links would come handy. Thank You. 
Yes, there is always Google, but why not make use of the customizers bubble here. 
I'm not a Mac user...never have been...though I do have an Apple 2C I bought complete for $5. It turns on but doesn't apparently have an OS so if I had a second one I'd have matching bookends...;)
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Not sure this is what you want...sounded a bit fishy to me. 😉
It is, also, possible to install Windows 11 on a MacBook 😁
Although it looks like you are wanting to learn Mac OS which is something I haven't tried in quite a while.
You can customize the Mac dock, change icons, about it. I have dabbled in customizing Mac.
Bought a MacBook and about to work on the 'dark side' half the time. Are here any hybrid users doung the same and have You customized Your macs? Is it a thing in Macos or impossible? Some links would come handy. Thank You. Yes, there is always Google, but why not make use of the customizers bubble here.
Yes, definitely. macOS is actually pretty customizable once you stop expecting Windows-style “theme packs” to be the main approach. Apple gives you quite a bit natively now: Dark/Light mode, accent colors, icon and widget styles, folder colors, Dock behavior, wallpapers and desktop widgets.
For a hybrid Windows/Mac setup, the first thing I'd install is Rectangle. It gives you proper window snapping and keyboard shortcuts, so you can get much closer to the Windows workflow without fighting macOS every time you arrange windows. It's free, open source, and works on both Intel and Apple Silicon.
For the menu bar, Ice is a good free option if you're on macOS 14 or newer. It lets you hide, group and rearrange menu-bar items and even customize their appearance. If you don't mind paying, Bartender is another established option with much deeper menu-bar organization and presets.
I wouldn't go crazy with system-modification tools at first. I'd spend a week using the Mac mostly stock, then fix the specific Windows habits that annoy you. That tends to produce a much cleaner setup than trying to make macOS look exactly like Windows.
The advice to run it stock for a week and then fix only what annoys you is good for behaviour and poor for appearance. Those are two different problems.
Behaviour you can repair piece by piece. A snapping tool here, a menu bar tidier there, and each fix stands on its own merits. Appearance does not work that way, because the eye compares. Change the accent colour and the icons and leave the rest, and you have not made it yours, you have made it inconsistent. It is almost right, which is somehow worse than wrong.
That is the trap I fell into on Windows. I spent the better part of a year correcting individual things that irritated me and ended up with a desktop assembled from four different eras. What finally helped was choosing one look, applying it everywhere, and accepting the few places that refused to co-operate.
Whether macOS will let you do that at all I cannot say, as I have never owned one. If it will not, then the honest answer to c242 is not three tools but this: customise the behaviour and let the appearance be Apple's. That is a perfectly reasonable way to run a machine. It is simply not the same hobby.
To be honest: I sold all macs and got myself a decent windows mini pc and laptop again. I found Mac OS quiet annoying. it just doesn't fit most of my workflows.
To be honest: I sold all macs and got myself a decent windows mini pc and laptop again. I found Mac OS quiet annoying. it just doesn't fit most of my workflows.
Admit the truth: Tim Cook had it out for you and wanted you to suffer. Apple made an OS designed especially to drive you nuts. Das ist völlig klar, ja?
To be honest: I sold all macs and got myself a decent windows mini pc and laptop again. I found Mac OS quiet annoying. it just doesn't fit most of my workflows.
Admit the truth: Tim Cook had it out for you and wanted you to suffer. Apple made an OS designed especially to drive you nuts. Das ist völlig klar, ja?
Well we all know Win has it's rough edges, too. But I didn't want to gain permission again and again and again to tag my music after every other update. Just a small example.
But I didn't want to gain permission again and again and again to tag my music after every other update. Just a small example.
😡 Talk about annoying behavior. Ugh.
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