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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1807015" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Glad to hear it! One thing I can suggest about the transition from Windows to macOS is to learn how the macOS approach is different. In Windows, you spend a fair bit of time worrying about maintenance of the OS, where files are stored, how to organize the hard drive and doing tidy-up work. On the Mac, you have your area for files (Documents) and you don't really have to worry as much about how that is organized. If you use Photos, it will sort out where to store the images, you just work with them as you want. Similarly, you don't have to do as much "cleaning" or "boosting" the performance. The OS will, if you leave the machine running overnight, do some internal maintenance during the night that is just about all you need. You also don't need any antivirus, as there are no viruses for the macOS out there to worry about, which means that the AV software has nothing useful to do. You might look for something like malwarebytes, at malwarebytes.com, just in case something nasty comes in through the browser, but most of that is just annoying. If you get malwarebytes, all you need is the free version. It will install the pay version, nag you for about a month to pay and then lapse back to the free version. You can also look at OnyX, from titanium-software.free.fr to run occasionally. Leave the defaults as the developer set them and maybe every 6 months or so let it run the maintenance routines. Frankly, although I have it, I only run OnyX when I see a performance hit (almost never) or when I remember it (maybe once a year?).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1807015, member: 396914"] Glad to hear it! One thing I can suggest about the transition from Windows to macOS is to learn how the macOS approach is different. In Windows, you spend a fair bit of time worrying about maintenance of the OS, where files are stored, how to organize the hard drive and doing tidy-up work. On the Mac, you have your area for files (Documents) and you don't really have to worry as much about how that is organized. If you use Photos, it will sort out where to store the images, you just work with them as you want. Similarly, you don't have to do as much "cleaning" or "boosting" the performance. The OS will, if you leave the machine running overnight, do some internal maintenance during the night that is just about all you need. You also don't need any antivirus, as there are no viruses for the macOS out there to worry about, which means that the AV software has nothing useful to do. You might look for something like malwarebytes, at malwarebytes.com, just in case something nasty comes in through the browser, but most of that is just annoying. If you get malwarebytes, all you need is the free version. It will install the pay version, nag you for about a month to pay and then lapse back to the free version. You can also look at OnyX, from titanium-software.free.fr to run occasionally. Leave the defaults as the developer set them and maybe every 6 months or so let it run the maintenance routines. Frankly, although I have it, I only run OnyX when I see a performance hit (almost never) or when I remember it (maybe once a year?). [/QUOTE]
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