u/Smooth-Friend4791

Had to use windows 11 this week , after 2 years of using only Mac OS. Previously I was using only windows 10. I write this in order to figure out if thats normal behaviour or maybe I have weird windows installation? Its fresh windows 11 pro.

1.Say i want to open a photo in photoshop. Why can’t i just drag and drop my image on the icon in the taskbar? I have to open app first and then drag it into app itself. while in mac os i can quickly drop my file on the icon in the task bar

2.When I alt tab between opened apps, why do i have to press tab every time to switch between apps until one I need is selected? On Mac OS i can cmd tab to show all opened apps just like on windows but I also can hover over them with a mouse to quickly choose desired app.
I see, I have to click to choose. On mac os i just need to hover over it. No problem there. Though its a problem if i use graphics tablet

3.What’s up with switching desktops animation? I press ctrl win and arrow keys to switch between desktops. But while doing it Taskbar disappears, files in the desktop disappear too, only to come back 1 second later. Looks so ugly and choppy. After i disabled animations in the accessibility settings it became fine.

My specs

intel 12700, 32 gb of ram and 5070ti running off Samsung ssdd

Had to use windows 11 this week , after 2 years of using only Mac OS. Previously I was using only windows 10. I write this in order to figure out if thats normal behaviour or maybe I have weird windows installation? Its fresh windows 11 pro.

1.Say i want to open a photo in photoshop. Why can’t i just drag and drop my image on the icon in the taskbar? I have to open app first and then drag it into app itself. while in mac os i can quickly drop my file on the icon in the task bar

2.When I alt tab between opened apps, why do i have to press tab every time to switch between apps until one I need is selected? On Mac OS i can cmd tab to show all opened apps just like on windows but I also can hover over them with a mouse to quickly choose desired app.

3.What’s up with switching desktops animation? I press ctrl win and arrow keys to switch between desktops. But while doing it Taskbar disappears, files in the desktop disappear too, only to come back 1 second later. Looks so ugly and choppy. After i disabled animations in the accessibility settings it became fine.

My specs

intel 12700, 32 gb of ram and 5070ti running off Samsung ssdd

I made mistake in the title, its 3060 12gb
Hey
I want to get back into local ai thing. Right now i generate and edit simple images on Mac, using AI app called Draw Things with external local linux server that runs on 3060 12 gb.

Recently I saw Ideogram and im interested in trying it out. But my PC.. i think 3060 is weak and slow these days?
Would it be reasonable to upgrade to say 5070ti? Im ok with 5070ti budget rn. Or is it still now good enough gpu?

I generate images, upscale them and edit with things like flux 2 klein z image turbo and sdxl
if it helps , I work in graphic design and I do a lot of upscaling shitty images, ai assisted design layouts in chatgpt, and I want to look into local things too, because more options is better. Also quite interested in ideogram + qwen that turns image into layers. which could be useful for design