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    • Maccy for clipboard history management via simple shortcuts
    • Stats for useful system metrics in the menubar
    • LM Studio for easily exploring open source Large Language Models
    • NoTunes to get rid of Apple Music launching when you connect your headphones
    • Bitwarden for multi-platform password management
    • Rectangle for keyboard-based window management
    • Homebrew if you’re a developer/sysadmin/command line user
    • Fluent Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds
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        I don’t know about him, but I have my first mac (from work) for two months and I never had Apple Music open when I plugged my headphones in.

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          I wasn’t clear in my description. For me, Apple Music always kept on opening whenever I interacted with my headphones, e.g. by clicking on play/plause buttons, at least since macOS 10.5 in 2007. Might just be an issue on my side (doesn’t look like it though), but I’ve been disabling iTunes/Apple Music for years by making it non-executable until Apple introduced System Integrity Protection, making it impossible to modify Apple’s apps. And now I just keep NoTunes running. I can live with it eating 8MB of my RAM.

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      Lack of window snapping is my number one reason I cannot stand MacOS as a working environment. The fact that the only solution is a third party app is infuriating.

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        You make it sound like a constant pain, I just installed one of the dozens third party apps available and never thought about it again. It’s really not a problem

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          Well that’s not really an easy option when you don’t own the computer you’re working on. Also again, the fact that the only way to enable the functionality is to pay for a third party app is pretty shitty and a major development oversight (and akin to the fact that IPadOS still to this day does not have a built in calculator because Steve Jobs said “why would anyone need to use a calculator on their iPad when they could use their iPhone?” Over a decade ago.

          Apple makes some great products, but also makes some really bad design choices and continues to double down on them.

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        I’m curious. What workflow do you have that requires window snapping? I’m asking because I have no use for window snapping and I’m trying to understand why people require it.

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          The biggest use for me, as a Windows user, is multitasking on a single monitor. For example, I can have my code up on one half of my screen, and documentation on the other side. It’s really quick and easy when the windows snap into position.

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          I’m usually working in multiple applications and being able to quickly arrange them saves a massive amount of time over the course of a work day. I’ve worked extensively in both MacOS and Windows and I just prefer the tools windows gives you.

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    IINA is like VLC but with a nicer interface.

    brew is a CLI package manager.

    OpenEmu is a great console emulation platform (like retroarch, but with a way better interface that’s designed for a desktop instead of a TV).

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      I never knew about Linear Mouse, thank you so much!!! I fucking hate how Apple ties scroll direction on mice/touchpad and no, “natural” scroll direction is not natural on a standard mouse Apple.

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        No problem! Glad I could help someone. I was so happy when I found it so I’m glad it can help others.

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        Just a preference thing since it makes it more like how Windows and some Linux distros do window management.

        Hitting Alt + Tab brings up a preview of all windows that you have open with the ability to scroll / tab through them.

        Hitting Alt + ` while focused on a certain application shows a preview image of each window for that application that you have open.

        I personally like it more than the OSX default but to each their own.

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      Never knew about Linear Mouse 😱 thank you! does it work with logitech stuff? So i can finally get rid of their shitty software

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        I’m using it and a Logitech G502 but I haven’t played around to see what things it can and cannot do compared to Logitech’s own software. On Linux I use Piper to manage my mouse with a closer parity to Logitech’s actual software.

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      Why not use Rectangle? While Magnet looks like it probably does a lot more and has more customization I’m having a hard time seeing the difference to make it worth that price vs. free. Can you explain your thoughts? 🙂

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      Big upvote for Magnet! I just wish it were possible to move windows between desktops 🥲

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      How is it with extensions? I like the workflows with Alfred, I currently use metrics/currency conversion, speedtest, adding notes to Fantastical, those are some that come in top of my mind right now.

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        It’s pretty good on the extensions front. Lots of options. However like a lot of free software, it comes with privacy drawbacks. They share usage statistics with advertisers, it creeps me out.

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        I think the main thing I like is that it fits so seamlessly within my workflow. I can customize the functions I use to happen the way I want them to.

        It has the same functions as the default app:

        • ability to take screenshots of all or part of a screen (with/without timer)
        • ability to take a screen recording of all or part of a screen (with/without a timer)

        But it also provides options for:

        • adding simple markup to your screenshot. As a developer, I often want to take a screenshot and add a bit of text or an arrow to highlight something to someone I’m trying to explain something to
        • trimming screen recording videos
        • removing or including audio in screen recording videos
        • recording animated GIFs instead of video
        • reducing resolution (for filesize) after capture
        • hide desktop icons during screen capture
        • change/hide desktop background wallpaper during capture
        • options to customize shortcut keys for various operations, or customize workflow (for example I like screenshots to be automatically added to my clipboard after capture or markup so I can immediately paste in whatever chat I’m having with colleagues)
        • options for keeping a history of screenshots/recordings
        • options (I don’t use) for cloud share/storage
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          Honestly Cleanshot X is a total improvement of the native app and worth absolutely everything. Irreplaceable for me as of today.

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    1. Homebrew
    2. Alfred
    3. Amethyst
    4. Kitty or iterm2
    5. A web browser that doesn’t suck (I recommend librewolf or Firefox)
    6. A text editor that doesn’t suck (I recommend NeoVim, vim, or vscodium)
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    If you need a gui text editor, BBEdit is pretty good.

    Others that I haven’t seen suggested and that I personally use daily:

    • KeepingYouAwake prevents the laptop to going to sleep (although there are tons of other ways to do it).
    • Raivo OTP if you have an iPhone with Raivo installed it copies the TOTP to the mac clipboard
    • Lulu as firewall for outgoing connections

    Honestly, Alfred, Rectangle, AltTab and CleanshotX are almost essential, IMHO.

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    Witch - Brings Alt + Tab functionally to MacOS

    Scroll Reverser - Lets you adjust the scroll direction on a per-input device level. The OS, by default, only has a single global preference. This lets me reverse my trackpad two finger scrolling without messing with my mouse setting, which gets everything moving as my muscle memory expects.

    Speaking of mussel memory, this isn’t an app, but a System Preference suggestion. If you’ve got Windows style keyboard shortcuts, like Ctrl + C to copy, stuck in your head, you can go into Apple Menu > System Preferences, Keyboard, then click on the Modifier Keys button in the bottom right. Here, you can swap the command, control, and option keys around to move the functionality over to your expected key. I did Control key: Command, Option key: Control, and Command Key: Option so I can continue to do Left Modifier Key + C to copy.

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    Homebrew, Iterm2, Keka, Menumeters/btop, newsboat/Vienna for rss, Keepass, Veracrypt, Sublime.

    Learn keyboard shortcuts like

    cmd+~ to cycle through different windows of a same appln

    cmd+c and cmd+opt+v for cut and paste

    cmd+mouse click on a folder opens it in a new tab

    cmd+shift+4 for screenshot tool and change the settings to copy the screenshot to clipboard.

    Cmd+space - spotlight. Hide folders if you only want it to open apps

    One more thing switch doc type to plan text in TextEdit app to use it as Windows Notepad.

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      I rebound cmd+~ to option+tab, because tilde is in a weird place on my Apple keyboard’s locale. Easier to remember as well.

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      Thanks for the tip, I still find it weird we (or at least me) had to install many of this many tweaks for basic QoL features. And there’s no autoscroll support is a big meh :(

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        Honestly most of the tools suggested in this thread not really needed. The built-in tools and shortcuts can do the job for many but the third-party tools always provide more options in every OS. For example I cannot use Windows for work without notepad++, 7zip, WSL, SSH/SCP tools etc.