I was a Windows fan all my life, both at home since I was 10 years old, and at work for 8 years of my frontend development career. However, when I ...
Some comments have been hidden by the post's author - find out more
For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
What caused me more trouble to get used to it was the window management, which is very easily done in windows with
win key+directionis not that easy in mac. For that, I use Magnet (magnet.crowdcafe.com/index.html). Which has a ton of options for window management. I use a 34"screen alongside a 15" laptop screen. It makes my life much easier!Yea readers have suggested Spectacle and Rectangle too so it's a hot topic. You have to pay for Magnet right? How does it differ to Rectangle? I like how Rectangle has snap assist but I'd really love if when I drag one windows that the other takes up the remaining space.
Oh I know what you mean. Like in windows, where if you place lets say, the window in the right side, you'd get the option to set the left side with any remaining window. Sadly this doesnt happen with magnet, however, you'get like 20+ of sizing options that really make a difference when you are working with big screens. I personally like it very much and it's the closest I've found to windows window management.
Great thanks 👍
if you have a trackpad (that is very cool) you can use swish, I love it
I don't but I've heard good things about them. I've been pretty happy with my MX Master mouse as it has a lot of shortcut buttons too. I really like the trackpad on the laptop but I have the laptop closed most of the time when at home so I might look at getting on external one.
I don't know if it could fit here but I found this calculator, Numi, very helpful when using a Mac.
Nice and helpful article by the way 👍
Numi is incredibly useful. @leviarista good share!
Thanks, glad you found it helpful and thanks for the suggestion, looks cool!
I had a similar experience years ago. I still maintain a Windows environment, but MacOS is my platform of choice.
There are a couple of things I want to recommend that I think you'll enjoy. Have a look at PowerLevel10k for zsh in iTerm. Here's what your CLI might look like after setting it up:
Also I have been really enjoying JetBrains Mono font with ligatures enabled:
Lastly, if you're a die-hard VSCode fan, check out Azure Data Studio and don't let the name fool you as it's not only for Azure. I use this regularly at work for MSSQL and most often no longer need SSMS. So much faster and easier to deal with.
Hope this is useful. Thanks for the post.
Nice one. Thanks for all those recommendations 👍
Very well written and very helpful!
For split screen window adjustments I would suggest Spectacle (spectacleapp.com). It's free and it offers pretty much any possible window layout customization and you can adjust the keyboard shortcuts yourself.
Also a small note - I notice you mentioned command + shift + i to be the hotkey for showing hidden files in Finder. I don't know if you have a different configuration, but in my case it is the shortcut to open the iCloud drive in Finder and the hotkey for displaying hidden files is command + shift + . (which I think is the default).
Thanks, glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for the tip on Spectacle, I didn't even think to look at apps to solve this problem for me so I will check that out.
Also thanks for heads up on the incorrect shortcut, I have fixed that now 🤝
I thought it will be an article like:
"How to switch from windows to mac? - don't, use linux, spare money instead of stupidity" :D
Thx the shortcuts, there were a few what I did not know before.
An extra thing for screen recording.
By default the recorder does not have any audio, so better to create a sound aggregate in the midi config tool, then use that to have mic and output in the same time.
Yea, money doesn't matter when it's a company issued Macbook 😀
For screen recording I personally never need audio, just use it to show a feature working. Good tip though. I use the new Slack video recording feature if I do need to explain things which is great!
A free alternative to Spectacle is Rectangle this is just as good a tool as spectacle.
Alfred is also good but honestly speaking unless you need to get into an app really fast or run some macro or something it's really not "entirely" worth the effort. I think the default spotlight search is a blessing
Additionally like one other user here mentioned, Azure Data studio is a must have if you're working with DB's often.
I'm pretty sure Spectacle is free, probably since it's no longer being maintained.
I'll give Rectangle a go though, thanks.
Very useful article, one of the most surprising things coming from Windows/Linux to Mac are the touchpad gestures which are amazing and once you learn them you use them all the time. 😁
I actually use a Magic Keyboard and MX Master mouse most of the time while I work from home. I use the touchpad while on the road though and agree, it's very intuitive.
Same!
I don't work on mac, but I'm surprised that Alfred isn't on here. Mac people seem to love it.
Yea, I'm still pretty new to Mac, been Windows pretty much my whole life. Never heard of Alfred so will give it a go thanks 👍
Most important of all : To OPEN A FILE --> Command + ⬇️
Since "Enter" Key just renames it. LOL
Yea, I found that funny when I first tried to open a file 😂
Great 👏🏻
Super helpful, thanks for sharing!
Glad you found it useful 👍
Thanks, glad you found it useful.
Yea that one has come up a few times along with Spectacle and Rectangle.