Working efficiently with my MacBook Air

I’ve changed jobs recently so I no longer had access to my trusty ThinkPad T490 running Ubuntu anymore. Instead, I was provided with a brand new MacBook Air. I’ve got to admit, I’ve always liked the look and feel of these machine (from the outside that is) but I’ve never used one myself, barring messing around with it in the local electronics shop. With that said, I had some concerns with being able to work with this thing efficiently because I was so used to my Linux setup. So in preparation I spent hours and hours with watching YouTube tutorials and reading up on how to use the systems. I set up custom folders and shortcuts in finder, I installed homebrew because I couldn’t stomach the idea of not having a decent package manager. I used this to install various things like alacritty, zsh and a few other terminal tools. ...

June 3, 2022 · 3 min