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I'm interested in what you mean by "setup script" - I assume you have a script of some sort you run when / if you re-install the OS? I'd love to hear more about

I'm interested in what you mean by "setup script" - I assume you have a script of some sort you run when / if you re-install the OS? I'd love to hear more about this!

satysin 4y ago
I have a simple shell script that does a bunch of setup for me to automate things. It grabs my dot files and restores them, installs Homebrew and a bunch of programs, restores their plists (I have backup script that backs up all their plists) and writes a bunch of macOS settings via the `defaults write` command. I can install/wipe macOS, follow the initial setting screens then when on the desktop I just connect to my NAS, copy over one script and run it in the Terminal to get my machine setup how I like it. It isn't perfect but it does about 97% of the work for me with the added bonus that it is consistent/reproducible for the most part so avoids me forgetting to change a setting some place. I don't go crazy with it as I don't wipe my machine often enough to justify going all out with a fully automated system. Honestly it is less to save time and more to maintain consistency and have a 'documented as code' record of my environment setup (not quite infrastructure as code levels :)
sjg 4y ago
Look up dotfiles on GitHub - for example https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos
- warvariuc 4y ago
  Oh, my! # Trackpad: enable tap to click for this user and for the login screen # Trackpad: map bottom right corner to right-click # Disable “natural” (Lion-style) scrolling
  - gloosx 4y ago
    ha-ha imagine dragging things with two fingers PRESSED INTO TRACKPAD instead of beautiful (yet hidden deeply in settings) three-finger drag this is old-lenovo-hacker style
  - ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
    Tap to click is an abomination. I have no love left for Apple, but their trackpads are orders of magnitude better than anyone else's in the industry. Have you tried using the trackpad at its default settings? They actually make a ton of sense.
- unqueued 4y ago
  I added a PR to fix rsync, mosh, and some other tools, since they will be broken out of the box. But it seems this project has fallen behind on PRs. If you would like to have this fix, you can do this after cloning the repo: git clone https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles && cd dotfiles git fetch origin "+refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*" && git cherry-pick origin/pr/963

I'm interested in what you mean by "setup script" - I assume you have a script of some sort you run when / if you re-install the OS? I'd love to hear more about this!

satysin 4y ago

I have a simple shell script that does a bunch of setup for me to automate things. It grabs my dot files and restores them, installs Homebrew and a bunch of programs, restores their plists (I have backup script that backs up all their plists) and writes a bunch of macOS settings via the `defaults write` command. I can install/wipe macOS, follow the initial setting screens then when on the desktop I just connect to my NAS, copy over one script and run it in the Terminal to get my machine setup how I like it. It isn't perfect but it does about 97% of the work for me with the added bonus that it is consistent/reproducible for the most part so avoids me forgetting to change a setting some place. I don't go crazy with it as I don't wipe my machine often enough to justify going all out with a fully automated system. Honestly it is less to save time and more to maintain consistency and have a 'documented as code' record of my environment setup (not quite infrastructure as code levels :)

sjg 4y ago

Look up dotfiles on GitHub - for example https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos

warvariuc 4y ago
Oh, my! # Trackpad: enable tap to click for this user and for the login screen # Trackpad: map bottom right corner to right-click # Disable “natural” (Lion-style) scrolling
- gloosx 4y ago
  ha-ha imagine dragging things with two fingers PRESSED INTO TRACKPAD instead of beautiful (yet hidden deeply in settings) three-finger drag this is old-lenovo-hacker style
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
  Tap to click is an abomination. I have no love left for Apple, but their trackpads are orders of magnitude better than anyone else's in the industry. Have you tried using the trackpad at its default settings? They actually make a ton of sense.
unqueued 4y ago
I added a PR to fix rsync, mosh, and some other tools, since they will be broken out of the box. But it seems this project has fallen behind on PRs. If you would like to have this fix, you can do this after cloning the repo: git clone https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles && cd dotfiles git fetch origin "+refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*" && git cherry-pick origin/pr/963