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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by GekkePrutser on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:04PM (#29744755)
With Mac you can usually just copy your entire ~/Library/Preferences folder to get all your apps back the way they were on a new Mac. It's a collection of pliat files that basically are equivalent to the registry on Windows.

There's even a system wide equivalent at /Library/Preferences

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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by smohare on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:59PM (#29745080)
For a very limited set of apps perhaps.
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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by wlesieutre on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:38AM (#29745318)
You also want ~/Library/Application Support

Of course if you're using a lot of cross platform stuff it tends to ignore those conventions in favor of a bunch of ~/.stuff/ folders

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Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux by GekkePrutser on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:01PM (#29749907)
Yeah my post was not meant to be an exhaustive list of course :)

But apps that play by Apple's ideas do generally do this. Application Support is more for files rather than settings.

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