Macs are good computers, although expensive. Their software is robust but by not perfect. They are much less of a malware target, both through obscurity and probably a more secure OS.
They are also quite expensive. If you want a $600 laptop you won’t find a Mac in the price range.
MacOS is of course different than Windows. There are little things that bug me, like no true maximize button, and file copies that make an exact copy of the source folder (including deleting items in the destination that don’t exist in the source) rather than just copying what’s in the source folder to the destination folder. Dozens of little differences, some good, some bad.
As far as games, if you want to buy the latest and greatest game you’re much more likely to find it for PC.
This is confusing. You’re saying that copying a folder deletes items or doesn’t delete items that should be? If they are exact copies, what’s deleted or added?
From doing some research it looks like it was fixed last year. So if your OSX is updated to the latest version it’s not a problem any more.
What would happen is OSX would replace, not merge folder contents if the source and destination folder were named the same. From what I remember it was like this…let’s say you have a folder called Music containing files “A.mp3”, “B.mp3”, and “C.mp3”.
You copy (drag and drop) it to a folder also called Music on another drive, it contains files “C.mp3”, “D.mp3”, and “E.mp3”.
What you wind up with at the destination is a folder called Music with “A.mp3”, “B.mp3”, and “C.mp3”. It doesn’t combine the contents, it duplicates what is in the source folder, including deleting files from the destination that don’t exist in the source.
I never ran into it myself. but yeah, Windows merges like-named folders by default and OS X would replace the folder with the new one. I could see how someone coming from Windows could get burned by that.
This had spawned many variously amusing message board arguments about which way is “correct.”
The Finder doesn’t explicitly delete anything. It just replaces one folder with another. So, if you open a folder, and copy a bunch of files into it, it will ask if you want to replace any files with the same name. However, if you take an entire folder and move it to a location with another folder of the same name, it will ask if you want to replace the folder with the one you are moving. In other words, it does exactly what you asked. If there are files in the folder being replaced that aren’t in the one being moved, too bad. If you want to merge the contents of a folder with another one, just select all the files and drag them into the merge folder - the OS will ask if you want to replace files with the same name.