Making macOS Bearable
2 days ago
- #macOS
- #Customization
- #Productivity
- The author describes their experience transitioning from Arch Linux to macOS and the challenges they faced with macOS's default interface.
- They highlight the inefficiency of visual search in macOS's Mission Control and prefer shortcuts and fuzzy finding for navigation.
- To improve window management, they use Aerospace, a tiling window manager that replaces macOS's Spaces with deterministic workspaces.
- They customize their development workspace with Ghostty and Tmux, using root bindings to bypass the default prefix and streamline window switching.
- They developed a Rust tool called 'ws' to manage projects with a fuzzy finder and stack-based history for seamless context switching.
- The author advocates for modal editing and linguistic efficiency in text manipulation, contrasting it with modern OS design's visual clutter.
- They use Vimium for browser navigation and Homerow for system-wide 'look and type' navigation to minimize mouse usage.
- The goal is to create a seamless, efficient computing experience that feels like an extension of the body.