I'll be switching to Mac today - my laptop is old and buying a Macbook is cheaper than buying a premium Windows laptop in Brazil. I'm freaking out a little bit and need to help regarding some features that I use daily and I'm not sure if they are available on MacOs. Can anyone help me?

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  • alt-tab-macos

    Windows alt-tab on macOS

  • Q3: AFAIK, Chrome can do it. Q5: As I have menioned above, window management sucks on macOS, so better install another good app for swithcing windows called AltTab Q6: Yes, you can create a Stack in the Dock with your most important apps: i.imgur.com/C9Jw4FU.png Q7: Sublime Text Q8: AFAIK, no, there is not. Q9: AFAIK, no, it's not. Better look for some alternative. Q10: You can press โ‡งโŒ˜F shortcut or adjust Finder preferences to show recent files when a new window is opened: i.imgur.com/72X8bQz.png Q11: Use AltTab app from Q5 and you'll never have issue with that.

  • Rectangle

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

  • There's built in feature for resizing windows to left/right of the screen by hovering the green maximize button and holding option. If you need more complex resizing and keyboard shortcuts, get a utility like rectangle. If you need complex window snapping (dragging a window into a corner to resize), bettertouchtool has endless customization options for this. And if you want to have windows resize automatically, you will need a tiling window manager like yabai but that requires some configuration

  • InfluxDB

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  • sublime_text

    Issue tracker for Sublime Text

  • Q3: AFAIK, Chrome can do it. Q5: As I have menioned above, window management sucks on macOS, so better install another good app for swithcing windows called AltTab Q6: Yes, you can create a Stack in the Dock with your most important apps: i.imgur.com/C9Jw4FU.png Q7: Sublime Text Q8: AFAIK, no, there is not. Q9: AFAIK, no, it's not. Better look for some alternative. Q10: You can press โ‡งโŒ˜F shortcut or adjust Finder preferences to show recent files when a new window is opened: i.imgur.com/72X8bQz.png Q11: Use AltTab app from Q5 and you'll never have issue with that.

  • yabai

    A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

  • There's built in feature for resizing windows to left/right of the screen by hovering the green maximize button and holding option. If you need more complex resizing and keyboard shortcuts, get a utility like rectangle. If you need complex window snapping (dragging a window into a corner to resize), bettertouchtool has endless customization options for this. And if you want to have windows resize automatically, you will need a tiling window manager like yabai but that requires some configuration

  • CotEditor

    Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

  • CotEdtior and BBEdit are similar simple text editors. Sublime Text, VSCode, and such have Mac versions as well. There's also a mac exclusive text editor called Nova that's also worth a look

  • 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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