Even if you always just launch straight into apps on the Mac, you're using the Finder, but this core macOS feature is replete with useful features that get missed — or often not understood.

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Though you can’t remove Finder from your Mac entirely, you can install alternatives and choose to use them instead. Apple’s own file manager has plenty going for it, but it’s a little light ...

Finder supports a wide range of protocols, including local shares over the SMB (Windows) and AFP (Mac) sharing protocols, NAS drives that use the NFS protocol, remote servers that use FTP and HTTP ...

You've long been able to customize folders in the Mac's Finder, but only with a lot of non-obvious fiddling. Now with macOS Tahoe, Apple has made it a lot simpler.