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I’m running Yabai on 11.1, but I’m running from head.
BetterTouchTool is another power tool.
Command-option-delete.
Click the RGB Sliders icon (second from the left) on the Colors dialog, choose RGB sliders from the drop-down list then click the gear icon next to the drop-down and choose '8-bit (0-255)'. That'll give you the 'Hex Color #' field.
The dialog retains the settings; I set mine up that way ages ago and forgot it isn't the default.
For window management get Magnet from the Mac App Store. Also set up hot corners if you want to quickly view the desktop, though you will find that viewing the desktop is a much rarer occurrence than on Windows.
@tja Coming from Windows and switching to MacOS about ten years ago, it took me about a year to really feel at home with it. I'm still a fan of Windows 7 but I dislike Windows 10, an OS that always tries to be the purpose itself instead of silently doing its job.
I wouldn't recommend to buy lots of 3rd party Mac utilities until you've learned to get along well with native OS X. The only utility I would recommend to purchase right out of the box is a proper firewall that allows you to block outgoing connections by app, destination IP, port and protocol. Search online for options, I remember that HandsOff and Little Snitch are quite good.
There are many useful tweaks... like the "open terminal here" and "create text file here" as icons in the Finder window.
If you're looking for something like Total Commander on Mac, let me tell you: It simply does not exist.
There is "Commander One Pro" for which the author claims to be the "Official TC counterpart on Mac" but it's neither as stable nor as feature rich as TC. It's quite buggy actually and it has difficulty handling large files and archives.
About homebrew: I could not live without it. No way.
This. Just give in and do things the Apple way. Accept that everything is integrated seamlessly. I.e., by not using Keychain you’re making your life unneccessarily painful. Don’t be stubbborn, use the system’s strengths.
I know you hate subscriptions, but SetApp is a pretty sweet deal. For the cost of a couple of apps I was already upgrading annually I now have a full library of options. Might be worth just subscribing for a month to trial apps to see what's worth buying.
More goodies:
Here’s a thing most people have no idea you can do:
If you want to print a listing of a folder or directory to a printer, as a nice list, you used to be able to do this back in old system4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 etc but not since OS X. But you can.
Go to the settings where the printers are, drag a printer icon from the list (ie, the one and only printer icon if you only have one printer) to the desktop (which creates an alias). Then drag a folder icon to the desktop printer alias. It will print a listing of that directory to your printer.
Yes, I don't actually know a way to get rid of the popup – though as you've probably already figured, command-d will dismiss it and delete the file.
The “menu bar” that is being discussed is a little white strip across the top of the rectangle that represents your displays in the monitor arrangement tab of the displays preferences. Just click on that and drag it to the other rectangle to change which monitor is your primary. Only one will have it, so you drag to the other one if you want to change which is primary.
I think the windows snapping thing is patented, so it’s not in the system. Just resize the windows, it’s pretty quick. I hate using spit screen.
You kind of have to use keychain. If you sign into iCloud for example it saves the password in the keychain so you don’t have to put it in all the time. If you enter an email account into the mail app, it saves it to the keychain. There is iCloud Keychain and Local keychain. You don’t have to use the iCloud Keychain. If you reset your Local Keychain everyday because you don’t want to use it or use terminal to disable it you are going to have some problems.
I used to use Windows 7, but I switched to Mac about 2 years ago. I do have a Windows 10 surface that I use for some light games that don’t work on Mac. I can’t stand the interface.
If you are in Finder/Desktop, go to the menu bar, click on help, and enter MacOS Help. It’s the manual to the OS. Also, the help menus are usually pretty helpful.
Seriously unimpressed with my new Mac Mini and MacOS.
First Mac Mini arrived and the PSU died an hour in. The replacement arrived today and I am having nonstop glitches, took 2 hours to get my trackpad working and now it's crashed again trying to download BigSur update...
I've been a mac fanboy for a long time but this OS is driving me insane.
I had some problems with mine, but I’ve more or less isolated the issues though they are still annoying.
I haven’t tried, but I’m pretty sure you won’t want to try to download an earlier OS onto that M1. It is far from supported, and you will likely experience even more issues.
Yeah, I won't be trying that. 🙃
I'm hoping the 11.1 update fixes some of the issues.
Unfortunately you don't have any choice here if you're going to use the mac for development. The private and public keys for your developer account and the associated certificates and passwords live in the keychain, and you can't build, sign or distribute apps without them being present.
And believe me, trying to load/unload them and keep everything in sync with your developer account manually is a monumental pain in the fundament. After you've done it once or twice following a clean OS install or the swap to a new machine you'll be doing just what brambos said: giving in and doing things Apple's way.