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Re: New MacBook Setup

#43

Post by runjake »

dheera wrote: post #36
bouke wrote: post #24

My setup would take weeks to reproduce, I think. So many small tweaks, configuration and extensions that I have accrued over the years. I would dread starting over, which is why I’m very happy with Migration Assistant that helped me migrate to various new machines over 10+ years.

I use Ubuntu Linux for my personal machines, and my entire setup can be reproduced in a fully automated fashion with a script that I maintain, so I can wipe and start fresh pretty much any day I feel like, go have lunch, and come back to a desktop with all my customizations, all the way down to the order in which I have my pinned icons. It's kind of amusing that Mac users have to go through so many GUI hoops to confi…

Mac users don’t have to. My many Mac settings are fully configurable with a shell script. Likewise, you can do everything mentioned in this post in a shell script.

And us devs who prefer Macs like the stability and not needing to fiddle with stuff all the time and just want to get work done.

I also always maintain a couple Linux desktops and while it’s great, it’s always been flakier than macOS. We find that macOS has more polish. Linux is a much better OS than Darwin though.

FWIW, I started using Linux back in 1992 in its pre-1.0 days, long before I ever used the current thing called macOS ,or MS-DOS/Windows, for that matter.

Re: New MacBook Setup

#44

Post by namdnay »

dheera wrote: post #36
bouke wrote: post #24

My setup would take weeks to reproduce, I think. So many small tweaks, configuration and extensions that I have accrued over the years. I would dread starting over, which is why I’m very happy with Migration Assistant that helped me migrate to various new machines over 10+ years.

I use Ubuntu Linux for my personal machines, and my entire setup can be reproduced in a fully automated fashion with a script that I maintain, so I can wipe and start fresh pretty much any day I feel like, go have lunch, and come back to a desktop with all my customizations, all the way down to the order in which I have my pinned icons. It's kind of amusing that Mac users have to go through so many GUI hoops to confi…

They don’t have to, everything can be done by CLI if you’re feeling particularly nerdy

Re: New MacBook Setup

#45

Post by Toutouxc »

dheera wrote: post #36
bouke wrote: post #24

My setup would take weeks to reproduce, I think. So many small tweaks, configuration and extensions that I have accrued over the years. I would dread starting over, which is why I’m very happy with Migration Assistant that helped me migrate to various new machines over 10+ years.

I use Ubuntu Linux for my personal machines, and my entire setup can be reproduced in a fully automated fashion with a script that I maintain, so I can wipe and start fresh pretty much any day I feel like, go have lunch, and come back to a desktop with all my customizations, all the way down to the order in which I have my pinned icons. It's kind of amusing that Mac users have to go through so many GUI hoops to confi…

I’m a Mac user of 10 years now and the total amount of times I’ve had to wipe and start fresh is exactly zero. So while you’re right about macOS taking some time to set up, it also doesn’t really matter [to me at least].

Re: New MacBook Setup

#46

Post by namdnay »

whatever1 wrote: post #6

I find hilarious the fact that we need to buy & install a windowing tool because the native OS window system has been broken for the past 40 years. Can't they just copy what windows and linux are doing?

Yeah I have to agree with this. MacOS is unusable on a big screen without Rectangle, it’s silly

Re: New MacBook Setup

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Post by throwaway4good »

vundercind wrote: post #30
throwaway4good wrote: post #20

Am I the only one who prefers macports over homework? And Safari over Chrome? And the default terminal.

Safari, Terminal.app, Homebrew here. I’m on Homebrew because it hasn’t given me any trouble in years, has an outstanding package library, and because back when I first tried Macports in like 2012 it liked to break itself every few months while doing very normal things, so I tried Homebrew and never looked back.

I had a traumatic experience with homebrew in the early days where it killed my system to the point where I had to do a fresh OS install. Also I find their beer-making jargon annoying.

Re: New MacBook Setup

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Post by whenlambo »

ilikehurdles wrote: post #26

Dock on the right is better as it’s more out of the way of buttons you’ll use (left side menus, window buttons) so you won’t accidentally unhide it. Also I could never get behind magnification, just makes it harder to predict where things are, but I almost never use the dock anyway.

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