Install Firefox
Install homebrew to install git and clone this repo
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh | sh
eval "$(/usr/local/bin/brew shellenv)"
brew install git
git clone https://github.com/andrewalexander/dotfiles
Install alacritty or iTerm for terminal
# make init # for linux
make init-mac # for mac
make install
make plugins
Uses the arch gvim package even for vim so that it gets compiled with +clipboard and can use the system clipboard which alacritty is also configured to share.
Uses stow to create symlinks of everything in config/ to ~/
System Settings we can't necessarily automate (or can we? 🤔). We usually won't have to do this unless it's a brand new mac or a truly fresh install.
Even if a Security Response breaks our install on an out of support mac, we can always re-install the OS using our recovery drive via the OpenCore Legacy Patcher USB Boot Drive we will keep around (or create in a pinch).
- it is unclear if re-installing macos via the recovery partition will install the last officially supported macOS version apple released for the hardware or if it will use the version installed with Open Core Legacy Patcher. Rather than find out the last time around, I just used the USB drive to do a clean Mojave install (Disk Utiliy -> Erase Macintosh HD before installing Mojave).
Automatic Updates -> Install macOS updates: Disabled -> Install App store updates: Disabled -> Install Security Responses: Disabled - one of the more recent ones made the mac unbootable and i had to reinstall; even after removing it it would hang after the keyboard's backlight would turn on
Disable
Dark Highlight Color: Purple
Show Scroll bars: Always Click in the scroll bar to: Jump to the spot that's clicked
Trackpad Options... -> Use trackpad for dragging: Enabled -> Dragging Style: Three Finger Drag
Wifi: Don't Show Bluetooth: Don't Show AirDrop: Don't Show Focus: Active Stage Manager: Don't Show Screen Recording: Active Display: Active Sound: Always Now Playing: Don't Show
Battery -> Show in menu bar: Enabled -> Show Percentage: Enabled
Clock Options... -> Show Day of the week -> Use 24 hour -> Display time with seconds
Spotlight: Don't Show Siri: Don't Show
Disable Ask Siri
Unselect:
- Events & Reminders
- Fonts
- Siri Suggestions
- Tips
Off
Size: Second to smallest Minimize windows into application icon
Recent documents: 5
Prefer tabs when opening docs: Always
Stage Manager: Disabled
Default Browser: Firefox
Shifting Tiles w/ default colors
Screen Saver: 5 mins Display off on battery: after 2 mins Display off AC power: 20 mins Require password: 15 mins
Login window shows: Name and password Show sleep, restart, and shutdown buttons
Re-map modifier keys: Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Modifier Keys on the left nav
- caps lock is control on both keyboards
- for external keyboard, swap option and command
update key repeat rate to fastest available; delay until repeat at second to shortest
Force Click and Haptic feedback off (with old mac, irrelevant/not functional) Look up and data detectors off Secondary Click: Click or Tap with Two Fingers Tap to click enabled
Natural scrolling off zoom in or out on smart zoom off rotate on
Swipe between apps with 4 fingers Mission Control and App Expose use 4 fingers Disable Launchpad Disable Show Desktop
Just add it :D