Nothing to say, i just love it
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
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.
Arc is a very good browser I use it personally
CleanMyMac
AppleCare
Daisy disk, parallels, fermatta, Alfred, istats, pixelmator pro (I like it better than photoshop)
I’ve been using “clean my Mac” for years now and daisydisk seems like a major improvement. I’ll definitely give it a shot.
There is also another alternative to Alfred - 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.
Heard Raycast has some recently discovered security vulnerabilities. Evwrything does but theres articles on this one.
Alfred user for ~10 years. Raycast for 1, and love it. 5x better.
+1 for Raycast
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
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.
What does daisy disk do
Micro analyzes your HDD and other drives connected and lets you dig in and clean up storage
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
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
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!
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.
Something like Caffeine is supported by mac os by default. Just type: “caffeinate -d” in the terminal
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.
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)
Amphetamine is a free app in the App Store that does that same thing as caffeinate
Why iOS doesn’t have a native clipboard manager, is beyond me
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
Epic! What processor and specs specifically? :3
It’s a MacBook Pro 14’(M1 Pro, 16GB Ram, 512GB SSD)
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!
this is exactly like mine too
wow five years with my macbook and i’ve never used any of these lmao
dropzone
Good looking mac
Whatever you need the MacBook for
Rectangle for window management App cleaner for comprehensive app removal Rocket for Slack style emoji support
Someone has already linked to some of his videos, but Quinn’s SnazzLabs youtube channel is great.
I like to keep my Mac as default as possible, generally, though I use BetterSnapTool (for window snapping), and iStat monitor so I can see CPU/memory in my taskbar.
Bettertouch tool, I was able to push the limits of what I can do on my macbook pro