Make Mac usable for Linux user

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/mac

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  • Rectangle

    Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

  • Rectangle for moving and resizing windows. Still missing possibility to move windows to another desktop with keyboard shortcuts, but pretty good. https://rectangleapp.com/

  • AutoRaise

    AutoRaise (and focus) a window when hovering over it with the mouse

  • AutoRaise for focus-follow-mouse. I don't want auto raise, so that is disabled https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • alt-tab-macos

    Windows alt-tab on macOS

  • AltTab for selecting active app with keyboard (mac-native cmd-tab is not to my taste when having multiple windows for same software) https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

  • macpaste

    Global middle-mouse-click copy/paste for Mac OSX (C).

  • macpaste for mouse copy and paste https://github.com/lodestone/macpaste and to have terminal where its own mouse paste can be disabled, iTerm2 https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2

  • iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

  • macpaste for mouse copy and paste https://github.com/lodestone/macpaste and to have terminal where its own mouse paste can be disabled, iTerm2 https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2

  • barrier

    Open-source KVM software

  • Barrier for using mouse and keyboard sharing with another computer https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

  • Amethyst

    Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

  • You might like Amethyst https://ianyh.com/amethyst/

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • BetterDisplay

    Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!

  • Nice! That was my favorite thing after switching from Arch to Mac. There's also an app called BetterDisplay that helped a ton for fractional scaling on non 4k monitors and some other things. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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