Necessary and best applications you use on MacOS?
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Necessary and best applications you use on MacOS?
Necessary and best applications you use on MacOS?
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Humilation ritual
brew
shoo wingay
Rectangle and some tool that adds a "caffeine" feature (you know, that one that blocks screen lock/time-out) are two of the first things I did when I used a Mac.
+1 Rectangle
also some app to disable mouse wheel acceleration, absolutely fricking gay and ridiculous (I use Smooze but there are many options)
CotEditor for text editing
VMware Fusion for virtual machines
AppCleaner for fully cleaning up apps when uninstalling them
and obviously Chrome because Safari is dogshit
yabai (w/ skhd)
linear mouse or something similar (see)
non-shitty terminal like kitty or alacritty
ranger
brew (optionally also macports)
these are the bare minimum to make macOS usable
>yabai (w/ skhd)
bloat, rectangle is more than enough
>linear mouse
valid but niche
>non-shitty terminal like kitty or alacritty
bloat, stock Terminal is good enough even for a sysadmin
>ranger
bloat, you should use bsdutils or Dired in Emacs (the one preinstalled on macOS)
>brew (optionally also macports)
valid
It's not the same as mobile safari, it will play your webms homosexual.
>Smooze
oh yeah, this too.
I also used a program called Bean which was a simple, but very good RTF editor. It's one of the few pieces of OSX software I wish was available for Linux.
Chrome is the absolute worst browser you could use on Mac OS. It uses more CPU (and therefore battery) than every other Chromium browser, never mind Safari. Use Arc or Vivaldi or Edge or something.
https://kyome.io/runcat/index.html
is there anything like a depozzer for macOS
the garbage can
I mostly use the same applications I use on Linux but the best application on MacOS has to be GarageBand. Why do you need expensive DAWs to make music.
>raycast (https://raycast.com) spotlight replacement
>iina (https://iina.io) video player
>rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com) window manager
>hyperkey (https://hyperkey.app) lets you use capslock as another modifier key (perfect combination with raycast, which lets you create custom global shortcuts!)
>Bonus: Arc (web browser) based on chromium, a bit weird at first, but I love it!
forgot: arc's url (https://arc.net)
A Better Finder Rename, very useful. (the Windows equivalent is Advanced Renamer, don't know about Linux.)
be sure to fix your home/end mapping
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251108215?login=true&sortBy=best
where's the "uninstall OS" application? cuz FRICK MacOS.
oh sweet, just the thread I need.
I work I have to use a fricking macbook pro m2, and I HATE its key bindings.
Anyone know a way to,
>easily force change ALL key bindings to linux key bindings (ctrl c to copy, instead of win c; win arrow to tile windows, instead of ctrl alt arrow; etc)?
>Change between ALL windows of ANY program in a chain sequence?
>ALWAYS make Home put the cursor at the beginning of a line
>ALWAY make End put the cursor at the end of a line
>Only have one desktop icon in the tray PER application. They fricking duplicate all the time.
>Make custom keyboard shorts actually WORK. They never fricking do for some reason, even shortcuts that are impossible to already exist and cause a collision (e.g. ctrl alt E, ctrl a b, etc.)
that absolute worst fricking UX I've ever had is with this stupid fricking macbook. Windows is a million times better and similar to Ubuntu, which is pretty fricking ironic considering the whole UNIX thing.
Look at this stupid fricking shit I have to use just to use a keyboard and mouse. 2 USB Cs next to each other... honestly... just.. why.
it's literally in system settings. skill issue.
>easily
no
>ALL
no
>troll
yes
You can just swap Ctrl and Cmd in the keyboard settings and get most of the way to what you want if you really refuse to adapt to the keyboard shortcuts that have been around since before Windows/KDE/Gnome even existed
cmd-tilde goes through windows, you can add shift to go the other way
macos tends to respect emacs keybindings, so i just use those
> Look at this stupid fricking shit I have to use just to use a keyboard and mouse. 2 USB Cs next to each other... honestly... just.. why.
Why r u not having dockstation with monitor and charging? Literally one USB c can connect all your peripherals
Does anyone use aldente?
I heard it actually fricks the battery in the long run.
+brew - you need a package manager.
+yabai with skhd - a tiling window manager & shortcuts, it's great, especially on a laptop.
+alt tab - free and open source program to replicate alt tab functionality, since mac's command+tab thing isn't that nice, as it only supports switching between programs, not windows.
+mpv - okay, you can use vlc if you want but mpv is nice and has a lot of cool features.
+notunes - i hate that itunes pop up whenever i accidentally press a button my headphones, this disables that.
+anki - im a student so i use that for learning.
+obsidian/notion - note taking and sharing stuff between family/work/uni people.
+vscode/vs/intellij/etc - if you code.
+firefox/chrome - i dont like brave and safari sucks, so these are your two choices. maybe the arc browser too but that kinda sounds like a meme.
+syncplay - i would use this more if i had online friends to watch anime with :'(
+iterm2 or any other terminal - the default one sucks.
+flux - i know apple has something native for this but i like using flux for the anti blue light stuff anyway since im used to it.
+amphetamine - if you need your mac to stay awake even the lid is closed or something.
+zsh & ohmyzsh - comfy and cozy.
+pyenv - no manual python installations in this house.
-any of the mac cleaner apps or whatever the frick they're called, they're all useless.
-maybe macports since i've never used it myself and brew sounds like it can handle everything i need.
everything else is pretty subjective, even some of the things i mentioned above, you didn't really mention what you're using your computer for.
What do you study anon?
math. i did cs before but switched last semester since i found it pretty difficult and different from what i had expected. really only need a pdf viewer for my math courses so far (i wish preview was cooler) since i do everything on pen and paper. the rest of the programs is just stuff i personally use day-to-day and like or whatever. there's a few things missing but it probably wasn't too relevant so i didn't include it.
since i forgot to mention and it might be confusing: anki isn't really for my math courses, i use it for some definitions here and there but it's more so for language learning that i do in my freetime ^.^
>+iterm2 or any other terminal - the default one sucks.
why does the default one suck exactly? it's perfectly functional
I like commander one
Hammerspoon. It can do the job of many commonly recommended apps like rectangle and caffeine
i get away with brew, vscode, chrome and telegram
as an employed person
https://asahilinux.org/
tiles
iterm2
homebrew
>Rectangle
I use sizeup since forever, bought the license ages ago and works great.
ChatGPT as safari dock app
VSCode
Sublime merge
Safari
How do I remove the double-tap drag release delay for the touchpad in MacOS Sonoma?
xcode-select --install
homebrew
bash
emacs
kapeli.com/dash
safari technology preview
omnigroup have some decent apps if you are willing to pay
Why do you guys install brew? Doesn’t it install shit all over the os? Don’t you prefer to just download the app and be done with it?
brew puts everything in /opt/brew if I recall correctly which is way neater than native apps do when installed natively
UTM is the best virtualization app imo
Transmission for sailing the high seas
Whisky for when you want to run Windows games / apps but don’t want to buy a license for CrossOver (Whisky is based on CrossOver’s source code but stays a couple versions behind so as not to compete directly)
Prebuilt ffmpeg binaries for Apple Silicon and Intel: http://www.osxexperts.net/
StopTheMadness Pro for fixing all manner of enshittification across the web
AdGuard for comprehensive adblocking with a native Safari content blocker extension
NetNewsWire for a simple native RSS reader
>KeepassXC
>Freetube
>LuLu
>Disk Inventory X
>Photo AI Pro
>iWork apps
Windows or Linux ISO written to a thumbdrive then boot into it and install the OS over this useless toy OS
Firefox on MacBook Air from Mid 2011
1Password (the last one before subscription licensing)
Tower (the last one before subscription licensing)
SecureCRT
Obsidian
Kerbal Space Program