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Apps and tricks for moving to MacOS ? (jlai.lu)
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Greetings. I'm not sure if should ask this here or on a MacOS specific community, mods feel free to remove this post if necessary.

Basically I'm getting a new SRE job. At my current (future ex) SRE job, i had all the freedom to have a Archlinux KDE workstation, that is incredibly comfortable to use as i'm also dailying it on my personal workstation.

However this new company gave me the workstation choice between either a Windows machine without WSL (yes i know), either a Macbook m4. (Edit for clarity : i cannot change the OS because of central management software)

I chose the macbook for the battery life and being able to keep it at least Unix (with zsh always on hand), but i have no prior experience on using mac os.

What are the various software that you would recommend to a KDE user to have on its mac ? I know only about brew.sh the new apple container thingy, and some various fan control app. Is there a way to have Dophin as file manager, or something similar ? (IE a file manager with an integrated folder-following terminal ? General tips and tricks you may want to share?

Thank you for your attention and have a great day

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

xscreensaver of course! Note that this is not an option on Windows---jwz hates Microsoft, and any xscreensaver port to Windows is against his wishes.

I use yabai and sketchybar for a tiling WM feel. It's nowhere as nice as my preferred i3, but it's ok. Unfortunately it often breaks with major OS updates, so I'm sure to hold back updating my system until yabai is working.

IIRC sshfs will work on macOS but it's more work to install. Worth it if allowed by your IT policies and your work can benefit from it.

Vim, tmux, and the usual *NIX stuff you might want.

The coreutils are not the GNU coreutils you typically find on a Linux system, so you may find a few differences. I believe sed is slightly different, and the flags for ls must be before the filename arguments, but I've found it's mostly silly stuff like that (I used zsh before using macOS, so no problem there).