dotfiles VS macos

You might be interested in this: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos

I don't advise just running Mathias' config as is, but read through it and see if anything seems to be something you want in yours, make the changes, and save it somewhere for the next time you're setting up a Mac.

There's some stuff in there about speeding up certain animations (look for `# Speed up Mission Control animations`), and about not reordering "spaces" (desktops, full-screen apps, search for `# Don’t automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use`) based on use which I think may also affect cmd+tab ordering? Not sure, but it's a setting I always change anyway because the default doesn't make sense for power users.

About the trolling thing, sorry, I was genuinely not sure if you were arguing in good faith or just making stuff up, as most of the things you were saying were just plain incorrect or dishonest, from comparing desktop computer performance to low-powered laptops, to incorrect statements about features macOS truly excels at.

Another resource is the .macos script from Mathias Bynens' dotfiles, which is the repo from the person in the article who gave the method for uncovering such system settings.

initially borrowed from these dots and then tailored to my needs.

I added a PR to fix rsync, mosh, and some other tools, since they will be broken out of the box.

But it seems this project has fallen behind on PRs.

If you would like to have this fix, you can do this after cloning the repo:

  git clone https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles && cd dotfiles

Set some sane defaults for the OS. Browse through this script and pick and choose things that you may like.

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos https://blog.jiayu.co/2018/12/quickly-configuring-hot-corners-on-macos/

macos setup script by Mathias Bynens

> ...even though they are technically in violation of the GPL by modifying and shipping bash binaries without full source - it is missing rootless.h (not the X11 file)

They're not.

They've covered this in two main ways:

1) By listing all their source code on https://opensource.apple.com/ (which links to their GitHub with all the source code)

2) By offering a complete machine-readable copy of the source code upon request as per GPLv2 (3)(b). This offer is made both in the license agreement[0] you agree to when booting up your Mac for the first time, updating it, etc., as well as in an Acknowledgements.rtf[1] file that is located on your drive at multiple locations (e.g., /Library/Documentation) and linked to from within certain apps (e.g., about section, acknowledgment section under Help, EULA agreement prompt, etc.).

That covers the bash part. rootless.h isn't part of bash and is part of libSystem.dylib, so that would fall under the OS exception in GPLv2[2]:

> However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.

0: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSSonoma.pdf (see §15)

1: https://opensource.apple.com/source/files/files-553/Library/...

2: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

What do you mean by "upstream" in this context? https://github.com/apple-open-source/macos ? Something else?

The XNU kernel has been open source for a very long time.

https://opensource.apple.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

Note that this is not the full operating system/windowing system, it's just the kernel.

Yeah, definitely not a fan of the phoning home part. But let’s not be melodramatic. https://github.com/apple-open-source/macos