Nothing to say, i just love it
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I recommend not installing anything unless you need it, especially window management and customization tools. I like MacOS because it’s simple and clean. Use it for a few weeks, get the hang of it and only then, if you need it, install utilities.
Plus how can we recommend anything if we don’t know what you need and what you like? What a weird request.
This is the correct answer.
OP for the love all man kind, don’t listen to a single person here telling you to install these silly utility tools that make a Mac run more like Windows. Don’t get Alfred, or Bartender or apps that give you the “Windows” experience of split screens. It’s all nonsense. Your Mac does everything those apps do. You really should take the time and discover what it does instead of instantly installing a lot of BS. Then you’ll see why Apple puts so much time into the Mac and MacOS. You’d be surprised everything it’s capable of.
The Mac comes with a very good office suite but if you need MS Office then get that. It also has a very good photo editing suit but if you need something more get Pixelmator or PS. If you need to do video editing it does include iMovie but if you need more then install Apple’s Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Premiere.
If you want the best adblocker then get WIPR. It’s ~$2 USD and it’s absolutely the most powerful. It can’t get everything but it’s better than the other free ones.
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When people say make Mac like Windows 99.9% of the time they mean
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Scrolling on a scroll wheel and trackpad in opposite independent directions
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Window Snapping
Both of which are essential features to get if you’re coming from Windows.
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For the love all man kind, Alfred and bartender have absolutely nothing to do with “the windows experience”. They’re great apps
Yeah, the mention of Bartender threw me for a loop… organizing the menu bar makes it more Windows-like? Odd callout.
I fucking despise windows but Mac full screen/Desktop/split screening still needs an overhaul, it’s super clunky compared to windows.
It’s funny because I love the Mac full-screening experience. I love independently being able to 3 finger swipe left / right on any monitor and have multiple displays within displays. I’ve tried to find something similar when I have to use Windows and haven’t succeeded.
Daisy disk, parallels, fermatta, Alfred, istats, pixelmator pro (I like it better than photoshop)
I’m also a new MacBook owner and I have seen Alfred recommended a lot so I installed the free version. I don’t get why people like it so much, isn’t it basically the same as the search function or am I missing something?
Spotlight searches only your computer, and if that - Alfred searches your computer, your docs, iCloud, all files, the web, images, YouTube, anything you can think of
Raycast is better than Alfred, Affinity is better than Pixelmator. Both are better by a lot.
Also, bartender is great and Xnip is amazing.
I like Affinity, but on the go I like pixelmator because of how black and white it is, super simple - but yes, Affinity is great too - I haven’t used bartender in ages and I have heard of Xnip
I love iStats!
iStats only have intel version tho, is there an arm upgrade on the way?
It worked fine on my M1 and it works fine on my M3, but the sensor reading functionality on the M3 is only picking up on the SSD temperature sensor, unlike the M1 which had CPU and a plethora of other sensor monitoring working.
Can parallels use GPU cores yet? For me it’s pretty useless otherwise.
It could since 2021 I thought. I used to play overwatch on a windows 10 virtual machine on my M1 Max
I’m not sure, I know the Mx series ones are optimized to use the Apple silicon and they can handle some gaming but not sure how well it uses the GPU
I’ve been using “clean my Mac” for years now and daisydisk seems like a major improvement. I’ll definitely give it a shot.
What does daisy disk do
Micro analyzes your HDD and other drives connected and lets you dig in and clean up storage
There is also another alternative to Alfred - Raycast
+1 for Raycast
Ooooooo…. I’ll have to check that out
In Alfred, I can search files so quickly by double tapping space bar and then use shift to quick look it. Is it possible to get the same reaction on Raycast?
In some way. I have option - f, or alias fs for file search. Then default action is to open, but you could CMD + Y to quick look.
Alfred user for ~10 years. Raycast for 1, and love it. 5x better.
Heard Raycast has some recently discovered security vulnerabilities. Evwrything does but theres articles on this one.
What is the point of Alfred and how is it better than the default spotlight?
Alfred searches your files, iCloud, local HDD the web and everything else you can think of, spotlight is limited, and Alfred is customizable and faster
Epic! What processor and specs specifically? :3
It’s a MacBook Pro 14’(M1 Pro, 16GB Ram, 512GB SSD)
this is exactly like mine too
Awesome!! I got a 16” M1 Pro with 1TB. Open box for $1350 just a few weeks ago! It’s been great, these m1 deals lately are hard to beat!
Pasta is a great clipboard manager.
Caffeine is a great little tool that prevents your laptop from going to sleep when needed.
Give this video a watch, I agree with many of the settings Quinn changes.
Enjoy your new computer!
You can run caffeine from a terminal without any apps. I’m new to Mac…but have to render, which for this application stops if screensaver.
No need for an app to do it…if you want
Amphetamine is a free app in the App Store that does that same thing as caffeinate
Something like Caffeine is supported by mac os by default. Just type: “caffeinate -d” in the terminal
Another app like Pasta that I enjoy using - and can’t use my laptop without - is Dropover. Would definitely recommend that, especially as a budget sort of alternative to Pasta (when comparing how much the ‘premium’ tier costs for both apps)
Love Paste! I haven’t tried Caffeine but Owly is another one that is good. Also, if you like to snap windows to different parts of the screen Magnet is a good app.
I heard caffeine was abandoned, no?
theres a built in utility called caffeinate that does the same thing
all the different caffeinate apps work around the caffeinate command i think
Development for Caffeine was taken over by a new developer in 2018. See here.
Ray cast is the leader here, and replaces half the functionalities of apps suggested elsewhere. It’s the best clipboard manager I’ve ever used.
Why iOS doesn’t have a native clipboard manager, is beyond me
Arc browser!!
Alfred
Finder. Cant do nothing without it.
Arc browser - steep learning curve but it’s fucking awesome Rectangle - windows like tab snapping Clocker - Open source menu bar clock that lets you see times zones in interest. Hidden menu bar - removes the menu bar items you don’t use Linear mouse - Windows like mouse feel
rectangle is the most usedul by far
Great thread
Ohhhh have fun :)
Sleeves. It does everything Apple Music Mini Player failed to do. It displays now playing info in the corner of your screen. Fully customizable.
Homebrew
Also My opinion if you’re a web developer you use all the browsers multiple versions of each type… Because u know end users dont like to update stuff. And not to mention you have tablet and mobile users to cator too. Its hard to take any developer seriously that says only use one browser…
Developing in firefox and fixing it to work on all the others is my method