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Moving soon to macOS as long time Linux user (szmer.info)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey, I will move soon to macOS as my main os. I am currently using Linux as my main os and from what I know, macOS is similar to Linux. I also wanted to ask some questions beforehand: There are few cli package managers for macOS but which one is the best? Will it be hard for me to use macOS if I am using currently Linux? Which keys on mac keyboard work same as keys on windows keyboard?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The day 1 hurdle for me on unfamiliar paradigms was how to install applications.

As a software engineer brew is good for some stuff, but a lot of apps you will likely be downloading binaries from the Internet like Windows. When you download an app they will usually come as .dmg files which are like disk images.

When you mount a dmg, it will pop up a window with an app icon and your applications folder.

And you might then think "What the hell do I do with this"

Well, what you do with it is drag the app icon to the applications folder. And then it's installed. You can do that through finder too - the "installer" window just provides a convenient shortcut.

And to uninstall an app, simply delete it from the Applications folder. That's how it's done on mac.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This one got me too. Coming from Linux, I was expecting just about anything but dragging an icon (from a disk in my case) into "Applications"

Feels very clunky and cumbersome to me, but i'm sure some folks love it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Another wild one is that you can dismount a USB drive by dragging its desktop icon into the trash!

Feels to me like doing that would be bad and should delete it!

Fortunately, you can also right-click and eject, or click the eject icon in finder, which is to me much more intuitive.