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First time macOS user, what are the essential apps? (lemmy.aerir.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by aerir@lemmy.aerir.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maccy for clipboard history management via simple shortcuts
Stats for useful system metrics in the menubar
LM Studio for easily exploring open source Large Language Models
NoTunes to get rid of Apple Music launching when you connect your headphones
Bitwarden for multi-platform password management
Rectangle for keyboard-based window management
Homebrew if you're a developer/sysadmin/command line user
Fluent Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds

[–] michaelfone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need a separate app to prevent Apple Music from opening?

[–] _calm_bomb_@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about him, but I have my first mac (from work) for two months and I never had Apple Music open when I plugged my headphones in.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wasn't clear in my description. For me, Apple Music always kept on opening whenever I interacted with my headphones, e.g. by clicking on play/plause buttons, at least since macOS 10.5 in 2007. Might just be an issue on my side (doesn't look like it though), but I've been disabling iTunes/Apple Music for years by making it non-executable until Apple introduced System Integrity Protection, making it impossible to modify Apple's apps. And now I just keep NoTunes running. I can live with it eating 8MB of my RAM.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I literally never had this problem. And I run a Mac since 2012 and I have never even opened music since it is called that way.