Confused with mac os

[Kuldar_Joel]

I recently bought myself a Macbook Pro and so far at least I like it, but there are some things that annoy me.

When I download something it appears on the desktop like an external drive and when I launch something I haven't before it just appears on the dock even after force closing that app.

Is there a way to turn these annoyances off?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Kilrah]

On Mac OS app installers are usually distributed as disk images, so when you open the download you get a drive. You're supposed to either install from that or copy the app to Applications, then you can "eject" it.

 

The dock just keeps the recently launched apps there, not sure if you can disable it in dock settings.

[Needfuldoer]

22 minutes ago, Kuldar_Joel said:

When I download something it appears on the desktop like an external drive

Mac applications appear to the user as files like any other (a legacy Mac workflow dating back to the early 1980s) and don't generally get "installed" with files everywhere like Windows applications, so they're distributed as compressed disk images. The OS decompresses the archive, then mounts the image so you can copy the application to the Applications folder. This goes way back to the early days of OS X, and was even done on the classic Mac OS in the 90s.

 

Just copy the application to the Applications folder, then un-mount the virtual disk and throw the .dmg away. You can't disable this functionality, it's just how it works.

 

22 minutes ago, Kuldar_Joel said:

when I launch something I haven't before it just appears on the dock even after force closing that app

Un-pin the application from the Dock, then it should only appear there when it's running.

 

By default, a chunk of the Dock is set aside for shortcuts to the applications and documents you've used most recently. Icons will cycle out as you do other things. (Again, Macs had a similar function starting with System 7.5 in the mid-90s. The Apple Menu had folders inside that accumulated aliases to your most recently used applications and documents.)

 

You can disable this functionality if you don't like it.

 

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/61327-how-to-disable-show-recent-applications-in-dock-in-macos-catalina/

[Akira Shimazu]

well installer is bit different on Mac. happened to me when i install Discord. usually when you open "installer" there is like an icon of the application next to a folder. just click and drag it to folder. otherwise it appear like external drive. 

 

Regarding about icon below that kept pop after quitting program is basically a pinned apps on taskbar. just unpin it. like windows taskbar. then it should only appear when you run the program.