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Most Linux software is available for macOS as well.
The indie developer scene for macOS is quite healthy and there are a lot of gems to be found like Panic, Omni, Kaleidoscope.app, GitTower, and many more.
Buy as much RAM and storage as you can afford. The high purchase price is offset somewhat by the very good resale value.
Install homebrew. Install packages with brew install. Done.
Install MacPorts, it's better than Homebrew. It's
sudo port install <NAME>instead.I tried MacPorts once and felt Homebrew was less confusing
The bad:
Depending on your needs, UTM might be sufficient, and it’s free. I use it on my M1 mini to run Win11 so I can check Office doc compatibility for the Windows users at work, and it’s remarkably good. I wouldn’t use it to run games or anything hefty, mind.
I like aerospace for a tiling windows manager, but I never checked out yabai
BTW, I'm not OP, but just interested, about the general feel of the UI and solutions - how much of the 3d\blur\other effects can be turned off? Same with choosing a purely monochrome color scheme. These cause nausea for me every time I even look at MacOS screenshots.
And another question, about window management and solutions to that and the desktop and dock and launcher, - how simplified can that be? In addition to nausea, have anxiety from most things there, and every time touching a Mac wasn't pleasant. Can one have a keyboard-controlled environment without rounded corners, without animations, without scrolled screens with icons to launch something? And how well can one hide the functionality of virtual desktop overview or whatever that is, to just forget it was there?
Suppose my ideal of tranquility would be a DOS prompt, gray on black. How close can one get to that?
Hypothetically.
To get a DOS prompt, you either install MS-DOS on a VM, or on a vintage PC.
Or just make the Mac boot directly into the command line as Single User. CMD+S on startup.
I don't mean that. I mean using a PC normally, but with a level of UI appearance adequacy approaching that of a DOS prompt.
You can customize the Terminal app.
No, I meant reduce distractions in the UI. Using all the same applications with native look. And reduce epilepsy-inducing elements in that native look.
I meant normal use.
Maybe just stick with Linux.
You can reduce animations and transparency, enhance contrast (though not every application supports it) and turn everything grayscale but you can’t change the overall style and layout of the OS.
You can turn off a lot of the transparency and other effects in System Preferences under accessibility. Setting the traffic light window buttons to greyscale is done in appearance I think.
I always enable “reduce transparency” and “always show scroll bars” for a saner default. There’s a bunch of other settings there that are sensible as well
Keyboard navigation for windows and menus is turned off by default. So turn it on for a more efficient experience.
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