Making macOS Useable

macOS is a lovely operative system except that it is missing so many basic usability features that macOS feels more like anemicOS.

Must have

• No proper package manager
  Homebrew package manger
• No window tiling
  Amethyst tiling window manager
• Can't set 3 finger tap on touchpad to middle click
  MiddleClick
• Setting trackpad scrolling direction and mouse scroll-wheel scrolling direction independently, as well as independently setting pointer acceleration per device
  linearmouse
• No path in Finder
  Cmd+Alt+P to toggle path bar

Nice to have

• Caffeine - keeps screen awake while active Not needed, macOS caffeinate command handles this
• AltTab - makes alt+tab behaviour sane, more like Windows/Linux

Do it

brew install \
--cask amethyst \
--cask --no-quarantine middleclick \
--cask linearmouse \
--cask alt-tab

Remapping

I am currently trialing disabling Cmd+Q as I hit it accidentally too often. Using the System Settings Keyboard Shortcuts options, I have changed Cmd+Q to Invert Screen Colours and switched Cmd+Opt+Q to quit.