Mac setup

This repo simply serves as repository for how I setup various things on a Mac, in case of the time when I either change it or it blows up!

General and base stuff will go here. App or tool specific stuff will have their own files.

• Git
• GPG
• iTerm2
• NVM
• Oh my zsh
• OpenVPN
• Rbenv
• S3cmd tools
• SSH
• Terminal
• Vim
• VSCode

System Settings

Changes I make to the Mac in settings to get it how I like it.

Sound

• Untick Play sound on startup

General > Software Update > Automatic updates

• Tick Install application updates from the App store

General > AirDrop & Handoff

• Change AirDrop to Everyone

Appearance

• Set Appearance to Dark
• Set Show scroll bars to Always
• Set Click in the scroll bar to to Jump to the spot that's clicked

Siri & Spotlight

• Untick Ask Siri

Desktop & Dock

• Set Position on screen to Left

Desktop & Dock > Mission Control

• Untick Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use. This will stop my full screen apps from moving position.
• Untick Group windows by application. Should be able to more easily move between the windows of an app.

Displays > Night shift

• Set Schedule to Sunset to Sunrise

Wallpaper

• Use black color

Battery

• Set Low Power Mode to Never

Keyboard

• Set Turn backlight keyboard off after inactivity to After 5 minutes

Trackpad

• Untick Force Click and haptic feedback
• Untick Look up & data detectors

Base installations

Core stuff I install which also supports getting other things loaded and/or setup. To save time when doing these all in one go you can skip the brew update that happens with each brew install.

Just call export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 in the terminal session you are using to run all your installs.

• Homebrew /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
• Avast antivirus brew install --cask avast-security
• Google Chrome brew install --cask google-chrome
• DBeaver brew install --cask dbeaver-community
• Docker Desktop brew install --cask docker
• Slack brew install --cask slack
• InTune brew install --cask intune-company-portal
• Trailer brew install --cask trailer
• Postman brew install --cask postman
• Keka brew install --cask keka
• Tokei brew install tokei
• The Silver searcher (ag) brew install the_silver_searcher
• Licecap brew install --cask licecap
• Stats brew install --cask stats
• Jitsi brew install --cask jitsi-meet

Contributing

If you think I'm doing something wrong or have a better way create an issue or better yet raise a pull request and show me.

License

This information is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

If you don't add a license it's neither free or open!