switching over from Linux to Mac is hard.
Some helpful categories
- app caches -- WTAH Apple? Y U NO DELETE THESE FOR ME? ➡️ CCleaner by Piriform . 🚯
- suppressing those irritating software update popups by running
softwareupdate
as an auto update in cron or script? - Filesystem differences - where does darwin put everything? Where should I put everything? Where can I clean things up?
For the mouse/GUI averse
- So. Many. App. Options = https://alternativeto.net/software/spectacle/?platform=mac The two I tried are:
- https://www.alfredapp.com/ and https://www.spectacleapp.com/ ⬅️ stuck with spectacle as it fit my brain better.
- Some Brew internals (How is it different from apt or pacman? Some gotchas to be aware of? When should we install from source? )
- Homebrew Cask extension https://caskroom.github.io/
you know you want to share those dotfiles! iTerm setup? Terminal prompt shell rc (I use zsh now) vimrc zshenv