Random tips:
* There are quite a few settings you can change in the Apple-Logo/System Preferences section, especially the Trackpad section, to learn and/or modify WTF it does when you touch it in various ways in various places with different numbers of fingers and so on.
* Even so, I find that newer trackpad behavior is horribly unintuitive for me coming from Linux and Windows, much of which is greatly helped by plugging in a $10 wired USB mouse with at least two mouse buttons and a mouse-wheel.
* The Finder is a fundamental tool for finding stuff on your Mac, kind of like File Explorer on Windows, but different.
* Installing software is often done by dragging its icon into the Applications folder.
* Newer versions of MacOS like to prevent you from editing some parts of your own hard drive.
* Your computer login and password is different from your Apple ID and password. Different roadblock dialogs asking for permission may be asking you for one or the other without being clear which they mean.
* If you still have a Windows computer on your local network, you can nicely connect to it and use its desktop, if you get the Microsoft Remote Desktop program and give it permission on Windows. You can also set up to enable file transfers over wifi that way.
* Recent versions of MacOS have some atrocious behavior around programs downloaded from the Internet, where the OS may lie to you that it’s corrupted or crashing, when really it is secretly intentionally “protecting” you from running them.