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Discussion on: What is the first thing you do when setting up a new computer?

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perpetual . education • Edited

Install Alfred.

Get rid of the doc and remove the low-hanging UI (while leaving the settings as stock as possible otherwise)

Set the right-click and two-finger tap to control+click

Download Google drive (back-up and sync)

Set Drive to only sync current projects (all files but git in drive)

Get Brew in place + Curl

download GitTower (git)... Sublime (editor)... Skitch (for markup up screenshots)... Affinity designer (to avoid adobe at first)...

In theory - we can toss our gear in a lake... stop by an apple store - and get back to work in under an hour (that's the goal).

We just bought a new computer - and are documenting the entire process from the perspective of students in our course. We don't install anything - until it's necessary for the class / so, the student sees us also start with a blank slate. We'll share the list in 3 months!

You can also totally write a bash script - that will install everything - in one go!

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Peter Kim Frank

Alfred was one of my first installs today.