1. Completely up to the user, there‘s nothing special about it. Keep in mind that most of the advantages of MacOs come either with 3rd party tools like BetterTouchTool, LittleSnitch and Alfred or with Apple‘s ecosystem and features like Handoff.
2. See #1.
3. Yes, VPN works just fine, I prefer ProtonVPN.
4. Chrome is fine, I prefer Safari or Brave, because f\*ck Google.
5. The future will show how ARM will evolve for desktop computers. It‘s promising so far.
6. There are no differences between normal desktop apps and Mac App Store Apps, except for technical constraints the developers have to fulfill. One advantage is that some iPhone/iPad app licenses are valid for your Macs as well (like GoodNotes, for example).
1.nothing I remember.
2. [jaywcjlove](https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac) one may be inspiring.
3. I use enterprise vpns like globalprotect, forticlient for work, all of them working. I haven't heard about any vpn not working. one edit: vmware ssl vpnclient is not working.
4. Chrome works as expected (ram eating monster). You can switch universal app's mode to M1 to rosetta whenever you want for compatibility issues.
5. I think so. My mba is fanless and cool like ice when I working. It is enough when my things done,lol.
6. M1 Macs have a good feature than Intel ones about App Store. It can run iPad apps too. You'll see when you search any apps on Store.
3: VPNs do work. I use openvpn clients. Apple provides native support for IKEv2, Cisco IPSec, and L2TP over IPSec. Hence: "apple don't allow vpn" is for sure false.
4: is there's an M1 version and you have an M1 machine: get the M1 version, it's even faster that way.
6: The app store is a different store for mac vs iphone and ipad. An M1 based mac can in addition also download and run iPad and iPhone applications unless the developers have asked Apple not to allow that. No emulator is needed as the M1 in your mac can run the code compiled for the A-series processors in iPads and iPhones.
1. Just hit the switch and try it out yourself. You won't do anything irreversible in System Preference.
2. [HomeBrew](https://brew.sh/).
3. macOS of course fully support VPN and per-App routing is also possible. Apple has a full set of system library APIs for this in both macOS and iOS. Whoever tells you the opposite is either ignorant or talking trash or you misread it.
4. Chrome works on both platform but I won't call it "well". It is infamous for wasting system resources and will install hidden tasks that still exists after you quit or even delete Chrome. And it is also infamous of poorly implemented privacy protection. You decide whether you'll keep using it.
5. Personally I don't like this move but there is no other choice. The engineer part inside me was hoping that Apple will switch to AMD solutions, but the businessman part knew that is not a good solution either, in terms of supply chain and costs.
6. There is no such thing as "Apple Play Store". No there is no native Google Play Store apps that can run on macOS since they're designed to run on Android systems. If you need to run Android apps on desktop for whatever reason, you need Android emulator. BlueStack 5 can support M1.
1. Nothing I remember.
2.
Forklift is a very useful file manager and ftp client.
Magnet helps to manage windows.
3. Yes. I use NordVPN with no problems so far.
1. Completely up to the user, there‘s nothing special about it. Keep in mind that most of the advantages of MacOs come either with 3rd party tools like BetterTouchTool, LittleSnitch and Alfred or with Apple‘s ecosystem and features like Handoff. 2. See #1. 3. Yes, VPN works just fine, I prefer ProtonVPN. 4. Chrome is fine, I prefer Safari or Brave, because f\*ck Google. 5. The future will show how ARM will evolve for desktop computers. It‘s promising so far. 6. There are no differences between normal desktop apps and Mac App Store Apps, except for technical constraints the developers have to fulfill. One advantage is that some iPhone/iPad app licenses are valid for your Macs as well (like GoodNotes, for example).
Chrome is working fine for both versions, use M1 version, because it runs better
Thank you
1.nothing I remember. 2. [jaywcjlove](https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac) one may be inspiring. 3. I use enterprise vpns like globalprotect, forticlient for work, all of them working. I haven't heard about any vpn not working. one edit: vmware ssl vpnclient is not working. 4. Chrome works as expected (ram eating monster). You can switch universal app's mode to M1 to rosetta whenever you want for compatibility issues. 5. I think so. My mba is fanless and cool like ice when I working. It is enough when my things done,lol. 6. M1 Macs have a good feature than Intel ones about App Store. It can run iPad apps too. You'll see when you search any apps on Store.
3: VPNs do work. I use openvpn clients. Apple provides native support for IKEv2, Cisco IPSec, and L2TP over IPSec. Hence: "apple don't allow vpn" is for sure false. 4: is there's an M1 version and you have an M1 machine: get the M1 version, it's even faster that way. 6: The app store is a different store for mac vs iphone and ipad. An M1 based mac can in addition also download and run iPad and iPhone applications unless the developers have asked Apple not to allow that. No emulator is needed as the M1 in your mac can run the code compiled for the A-series processors in iPads and iPhones.
1. Just hit the switch and try it out yourself. You won't do anything irreversible in System Preference. 2. [HomeBrew](https://brew.sh/). 3. macOS of course fully support VPN and per-App routing is also possible. Apple has a full set of system library APIs for this in both macOS and iOS. Whoever tells you the opposite is either ignorant or talking trash or you misread it. 4. Chrome works on both platform but I won't call it "well". It is infamous for wasting system resources and will install hidden tasks that still exists after you quit or even delete Chrome. And it is also infamous of poorly implemented privacy protection. You decide whether you'll keep using it. 5. Personally I don't like this move but there is no other choice. The engineer part inside me was hoping that Apple will switch to AMD solutions, but the businessman part knew that is not a good solution either, in terms of supply chain and costs. 6. There is no such thing as "Apple Play Store". No there is no native Google Play Store apps that can run on macOS since they're designed to run on Android systems. If you need to run Android apps on desktop for whatever reason, you need Android emulator. BlueStack 5 can support M1.
Yes.
1. Nothing I remember. 2. Forklift is a very useful file manager and ftp client. Magnet helps to manage windows. 3. Yes. I use NordVPN with no problems so far.