Forgot about Acorn and Retrobatch from Flying Meat: https://flyingmeat.com.

iTerm2 is perhaps the best terminal app on any platform: https://iterm2.com.

3rd party Mac apps that I like better than any of their counterparts on any OS are:

- iTerm2 - it works right, it feels responsive. I don't have to futz with it but can

- Pixelmator Pro - it's what Photoshop used to be to me 20 years ago

- Omnigraffle - When I need to hand-layout a diagram it's my favorite ever

- Postico - It's weird that I like a single DB UI. But it's nice over just pqsl sometimes.

I have some handy utilities I like:

- The UnArchiver

- Flycut

- SwiftBar

- Disk Inventory X

- Amphetamine

- Skitch

- Magnet

I use Office 360 begrudgingly. But I do like it better on macos than Windows.

The rest of my GUI stuff is largely cross platform (and some electron)

- Firefox

- Chrome

- Notable

- Signal

- KiCAD

- Wireshark

- VirtualBox

- IntelliJ (I use less and less)

- Spotify

The killer app for me in a lot of ways is just Homebrew. I live in the terminal. I love having up-to-date dev tools. I hate maintaining it. Even with Linux it can be a pain to hit the sweet spot between up-to-date and DIY. I'm happy running a FreeBSD server, but I want my workstation to not require a lot of planning. I also love that I can install/update native apps from it. I always use it before I hit the App Store.

I've ditched making VSCode and IntelliJ like vim and made neovim like VSCode. It's glorious. I use git and text for almost everything I do, unless I can't or when a picture helps.

And I don't play games on my laptop anymore. Really just Minecraft on my tablet. Sometimes I let my kids play with me :)

> Postico - It's weird that I like a single DB UI. But it's nice over just pqsl sometimes

You might want to check out pgcli sometimes if you find yourself using pgql on occasions. It does the same but includes various quality of life features such as tab-completion, syntax highlighting and improved table views

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

> I've ditched making VSCode and IntelliJ like vim and made neovim like VSCode. It's glorious.

How does one go about getting the IDE features like autocomplete or source change tracking in NeoVim?

autocomplete has worked for a long time with extensions like deoplete. Syntastic pulled in all the normal syntax and style checkers.

But the most recent major neovim release has lsp support + treesitter. Some Linux distros don’t ship it yet, but Arch and Homebrew on my Mac are up to date.

There are lots of examples out there for the configuration. I don’t think that mine’s great enough to share.

I’d just Google “neovim lsp config” or such.

> iTerm2 is perhaps the best terminal app on any platform

I'm curious (since I very rarely use MacOS) what makes it better than say: Alacritty, kitty, or even something basic like xfce4-terminal?

In terms of responsiveness I can't think of something better than alacritty/kitty.

In terms of everyday basic features something like xfce4-terminal seems to cover everything. Does iTerm2 have features that make everyday usage more pleasant?

I've recently moved away from iTerm2 to Warp (https://www.warp.dev), and there's no turning back. These guys are onto something big.

Thanks for mentioning us!

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[1] https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/

Thank you for mentioning it. Never heard of it and it looks very promising

I prefer Tilix to iTerm2 honestly.

That said both stay out the way and cause me no issues but I'll pick Cinnamon/Linux over MacOSX ninety nine times out of a hundred anyway.

iTerm2 is amazing. https://www.patreon.com/gnachman/

I can’t imagine my life without audacity lol

Omniplan looks excellent - anyone aware of a good open source alternative?

Any particular OS?