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.
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.
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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
Daisy disk, parallels, fermatta, Alfred, istats, pixelmator pro (I like it better than photoshop)
There is also another alternative to Alfred - Raycast
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
Ooooooo…. I’ll have to check that out
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
Can parallels use GPU cores yet? For me it’s pretty useless otherwise.
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
It could since 2021 I thought. I used to play overwatch on a windows 10 virtual machine on my M1 Max
What does daisy disk do
Micro analyzes your HDD and other drives connected and lets you dig in and clean up storage
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.
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 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
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!
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
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)
I heard caffeine was abandoned, no?
Development for Caffeine was taken over by a new developer in 2018. See here.
theres a built in utility called caffeinate that does the same thing
all the different caffeinate apps work around the caffeinate command i think
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.
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
Something like Caffeine is supported by mac os by default. Just type: “caffeinate -d” in the terminal
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
Arc browser!!
I’m looking for an app to easily edit videos. I used to use MPEG Streamclip, but it’s not working anymore. I use it to edit parts of a video out, or to change format, resolution, etc. Any recommendations?
Probably DaVinci Resolve
Move the dock to the left thank. Me. Later
Depends on the monitor resolution, scale and personal preference. For a wide/ultrawide/super-ultrawide monitor, makes sense to have the dock at the bottom.
I started on an ultra wide and never looked back… Even as a laptop the real estate you get is amazing… It takes just too much space and it decreases scrolling by a lot… Again I think people should give it a try especially if they are new to mac
That would totally screw me over with my browser having all the tabs on the left.
Yes! Thank you
Folx: download manager + torrent client
Sniper text: for extracting text from images
Boom: equalizerDo you still find Sniper Text useful? The latest versions of iOS and MacOS can extract text from images and rasterized PDFs. How much better is it compared to the default?
Oh, I wasn’t aware of that. As i have been using windows for past 3 years now. I can update you soon once my new mac gets delivered 😅.
Do you still find Sniper Text useful? The latest versions of iOS and MacOS can extract text from images and rasterized PDFs. How much better is it compared to the default?
Daisy disk saved my laptop from being thrown against the wall, so there’s that.
Also rectangle. Love it.
The FREE for personal use VMWare Fusion 13.5 Player will run Windows 11 ARM now with accelerated graphics and doesn’t limit you on cores and RAM like parallels.
Office 365
The FREE for personal use VMWare Fusion 13.5 Player will run Windows 11 ARM now with accelerated graphics and doesn’t limit you on cores and RAM like parallels.
My personal essentials:
Wipr - simple adblock for Safari (MacOS/iOS)
AlDente - useful if you’re keeping your Mac under charger for a longer time. MacOS has very similar feature build in but it may not work if you’re randomly plugging in and out your charger.
Rectangle - free tool for very quick windows management, snapping etc.
Keka - great software for compressing and decompressing .rar files and other compressed formats.
OnyX - great free software for performing overall maintenance in your system
AppCleaner - uninstall programs and delete leftover files
FlipClock - basic screen saver with a clock
Amphetamine - keeping your Mac awake, useful for longer tasks when doing them overnight etc.
AlDente is the business
Do you know if they fixed the issues with rectangle using stage manager ? Couldn’t snap when using stage manager if you wanted to snap in the area where your stage manager windows were
Unfortunately no. I’m never using Stage Manager.
Look into yabai for window management
!remindme 6 hours
!remindme 6000 days
Rectangle is great.
Can vouch for Rectangle, OnyX, AppCleaner, FlipClock, and Amphetamine.
Amphetamine, love this App because I want my MacBook being closed when I am using a external Monitor, and don’t want to charge it.
Great idea
Wait, do you mean this lets you use an external monitor in clamshell without it being plugged into power?!
i use my laptop 100% of the time closed without this (work)
Oh yes! I couldn’t believe it too but it works. U need to press on the icon and unselect the second point on tada external monitor without 24/7 plugged power
Careful s can contribute to overheating issues
Rectangle or magnet for window management Amphetamine is great but better trust your dorm mate. Go into settings and allow 3 finger dragging of windows, i dont know why this isnt default it feels so natural. Figure out a knowledge graph, note taking, organization app like Notion or something. Its a learning curve but useful if you use it Get an ai whether thats Bing, a chatGPT plus account, or Visual code Blackbox, copilot or whatever Learn about Apple private relay and email generator built in to laptop that forwards to your icloud email. Great for privacy, controlling spam, protects in the least email identification from data breaches Safari has a built-in apple VPN figure out how to leverage it. Set up cmd+spotlight to launch spotlight. Configure spotlight to search all your stuff except your embarrassing private folders. So much easier to do a search than clicking nested folders and scrolling through an alphabetical list. Alfred is an upgrade to spotlight but I dont use it anymore