
I use brew & mas (mac app store - mas-cli) for managing and updating installed apps. I honestly just RDP to an admin VM and don't do any non-daily work from it, with my regular account. I've had the MBA as my daily driver since it came out. Shift+Cmd+5 will give you a neat little screenshot tool kinda like Snipping Tool on Windows and will let you do screen recording Shift+Ctrl+Cmd+4 will give you a simple "drag area" screenshot that will dump straight to your clipboard You can also tile by holding down the mouse on the green dot.Ĭmd+Space will pull up Spotlight for easy searching across the system or quick launching apps The three finger swipe is my favorite thing ever and I use it all the time to flick between apps or displays. You can also add new desktops from that if you don't wan maximized windows. Good luck though - took me a long while to get used to the Mac as my primary machine but I doubt I'll ever go back - once you get familiar with the interface it becomes so easy to work with.Īlso, maximize windows with the green dot and then three finger swipe up on the touchpad for pretty much infinite window space. We make a pretty good effort at ignoring any solution that requires a fat client, so most of my day is spent in a terminal or a web browser, with a Windows VDI system for RSAT tools and some Powershell stuff (mentioned by others already) Insomnia or Postman, if you're going to be working with REST API'sīetween SaaS web consoles, SSH for Linux, and RDP for Windows, the above will pretty much cover you for most of what you'd want daily. Stats, from the AppStore, is a little system monitoring thing, handyīrew, which is basically apt or yum or for OSX ( )īrew install powershell (because PowerCLI for vSphere.)īrew install ipcalc - not only am I lazy, I'm shitty at math Wireshark if you want to poke around packets RoyalTSX for RDP and sometimes SSH if I'm being lazyĮdge, because it's not a bad browser - I currently have three instances of it up with about 40-60 tabs each and it's still responsive and speedy I don't run any local virtualization for Windows applications, though I do have a persistent VDI system via Horizon for when I want to do AD / MSDNS / MSDHCP stuff. Daily driver on a 2020 i9, architect role but I get my hands dirty.
