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Windows and Linux users what are your must have apps/programs when you set up MacOS for the first time? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ImaginaryFox@kbin.social to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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For me these have entered into my must haves

BetterDisplay: For better scaling support for external monitors
Rectangle: To be able to use a mouse to drag and snap windows
Pixea: To be able to double click an image with a mouse in any folder and then use arrow keys or scroll wheel to proceed to the next file in the folder. Replaced the stock preview with this.

Something I'm looking for now is the ability to use the forward and back buttons on my mouse when I'm in Finder and want to go back to the previous folder I was in. Doesn't work in Safari either. Works in good old dependable Firefox though.

And separate volume controls for each applications.

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[+] bob_wiley@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With pixea I can just double click to open an image no matter the folder view it is set to and use arrow keys or scroll wheel to look through the images in the folder.

Meanwhile in Quick view I have to reach for the space bar. Mind you I'm using a macmini so my hands are more likely to not be near the space bar as it would be using a TouchPad on a laptop.

And then my preferred view is grid, but then the arrow key navigation stops at the row it started on instead of automatically proceeding to the next row. So I have to click down then have to use the opposite keys to look at the previews then down again and go the opposite direction. And scroll wheel navigation doesn't work either. So then if I want to use one key I have to go through the process of changing to list or column view so I can just click down to view the next. But, why would I have to do that? It just seems like too many unnecessary steps.

No need to highlight anything with Pixea. Or switch to space or whatever. Simply open the image and just look through the media in the folder with no extra steps, which more fits into my idea of simplicity that I expect from MacOS than the default behavior that doesn't feel mouse friendly either.

[+] bob_wiley@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] ImaginaryFox@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, basically the default windows or Linux pic behavior. When I saw you had to do these additional steps of space bar and selecting images in grid view I was like no... I could have lived with clicking space bar, but having to do the additional step of selecting images or do a folder view adjustment was just too clunky for me haha. It felt like someone trying to explain how downloading a PC game then going through setting options isn't that hard a opposed just downloading and playing a game on a console. My thought why does a simple image preview even need those steps.