My next Mac might be the last

• Rectangle

  723 24,403 8.2 Swift

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

I use Rectangle and it's great for moving windows using the keyboard: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

• OpenInTerminal

  5 5,709 3.5 Swift

  ✨ Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty.

There's at least one Finder extension that can add such a button.

https://github.com/Ji4n1ng/OpenInTerminal

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• windows-rs

  98 9,839 7.7 Rust

  Rust for Windows

  

I jumped ship from macOS to Windows back in 2020 and honestly it has been great. Most of the time I essentially use Windows as a DE for Linux under WSL2.

Especially since the windows-rs[1] crate was published, for me it is just so much more infinitely customizable for my needs than macOS ever was.

Once you get the hang of the Win32 API (pretty easy with the excellent developer documentation), the sky is really the limit.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

[2]: With the exception of the Virtual Desktops API. I'm still salty about this, see more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33169588

• iOS-DeviceSupport

  14 8,059 2.9 Python

  This repository holds the device support files for the iOS, and I will update it regularly.

They take forever but it’s only once in a while. If you’re just trying to support newer iOS versions you can just yank them from here instead of updating.

https://github.com/iGhibli/iOS-DeviceSupport

• alt-tab-macos

  311 9,665 7.8 Swift

  Windows alt-tab on macOS

• kitty

  289 21,932 9.9 Python

  Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

I switched to lenovo+linux+regolith for daily use a long time ago after my mid-2010 macbook pro started having problems. I love the productivity gain from using a tiling window manager now, and can't imagine using anything else.

In terms of finder/preview, I've since moved to using vifm (tui) configured with zathura(pdf/djvu), calibre(epub), sxiv(images), mpv(videos). This works very well with the tiling window manager.

Notable (https://notable.app/) works very well as a notes app and you can also sync it with your mobile and use Noteless (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.redsolver....) on android with the synced notable folder

Kitty terminal (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) is great as a terminal, fast, and can also display images.

• notable

  70 22,269 2.0 TypeScript

  The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.

  

I switched to lenovo+linux+regolith for daily use a long time ago after my mid-2010 macbook pro started having problems. I love the productivity gain from using a tiling window manager now, and can't imagine using anything else.

In terms of finder/preview, I've since moved to using vifm (tui) configured with zathura(pdf/djvu), calibre(epub), sxiv(images), mpv(videos). This works very well with the tiling window manager.

Notable (https://notable.app/) works very well as a notes app and you can also sync it with your mobile and use Noteless (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.redsolver....) on android with the synced notable folder

Kitty terminal (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) is great as a terminal, fast, and can also display images.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• ExplorerPatcher

  649 21,493 9.1 C

  This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

This open-source project fixes Windows 11 back to sane Windows 10 functionality: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases

• hammerspoon

  114 11,479 7.3 Objective-C

  Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

  

I just upgraded my M1 air to Ventura. I typically wait for apple to release the first software update before upgrading to a major version but I thought I'd give it a try after reading this post.

It was absolutely painless and I did not notice any UI annoyances. I will update this comment if I encounter any issues.

Disclaimer: I use hammerspoon(https://www.hammerspoon.org/) for, among other things, manage my windows and move them around. I do not use any special feature of the OSX UI.

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