February 15 2018, 13:56

Finally set up my Macbook Pro to work with the same efficiency as before. I’ll leave this here for my future self and others.

Console – iTerm2 + zsh.

Editor – Sublime Text + configuration for external keyboard https://coderwall.com/p/upolqw/fix-sublime-text-home-and-end-key-usage-on-mac-osx

Code editor – IntelliJ Idea.

Diagram editor – StarUML, OmniGraffle, LibreOffice, Visio under VirtualBox.

Editors for text, spreadsheets, and presentations – Microsoft Office for Mac

Graphics editor. Unfortunately, GIMP. If someone suggests something better – I’ll install it.

Email – Microsoft Outlook and for personal mail, Mail.

Support for external PC keyboard (in my case, das keyboard) – DoubleCommand. Tried Karabiner, but developers turned it into a mess in the version for the latest OS.

Messengers. Skype – Classic version. The new one is inconvenient. Microsoft Teams didn’t catch on, forced to use Skype for Business at work. Telegram.

File manager. Midnight Commander. Tried a bunch, even ran FAR under Wine. Nothing better than MC yet.

Video. VLC, of course.

Remote access to the Mac at home – VNC Viewer.

Standard set of browsers.

Programming languages for everyday use – Bash, Perl, Python, Java.

Database – MySQL.

Video processing – iMovie (there’s nothing like it for free on Windows) and ffmpeg for batch processing.

Photo processing – GIMP for individual photos and ImageMagick for batch processing.

No current tasks about sound processing, but I will find something when the need arises.

Also using XMLmind for XML, but it’s foolish. Looking for a replacement.