Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

wasd wrote: post #3

Anybody have any suggestions on how to do this on a Windows PC? I like Ninite[1] a lot but I would prefer something more customizable. [1]: https://ninite.com/

https://chocolatey.org/

Re: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

#5

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 6:53 PM UTC

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Re: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

#6

Post by jug5 » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

Step 1. Install linux

Re: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

#7

Post by tomphoolery » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 6:57 PM UTC

You thief! https://github.com/tubbo/dots

;) Just kidding of course, yours is way better. Time to think of another silly name for my dotfiles...

Re: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

#8

Post by mikewhy » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 6:57 PM UTC

look into Brewfile[1]

[1]: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/brewfile-a-gemfile-but-for-home...

Re: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

#9

Post by codemac » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

jug5 wrote: post #6

Step 1. Install linux

It worked pretty well on my macbook air once I figured out the marvell ata errors (the sata controller behaves poorly) and the backlight (magical recompilation every boot on a new kernel with dkms solved it).

Re: Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac

#10

Post by aalbertson » Thu, Oct 02, 2014, 7:01 PM UTC

this is pretty awesome. Definitely some tools in here I'd not heard of before and will help get a nice clean mac. Definitely playing with this more!