I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in wanting to customize the hell out of OSX. - r/MacOS

Some things never change. The desire to customize Macos, as well as the incessant bullshit drum beat of “nope, you can’t do it”

Other wrong answers include:

• Embrace change
• It’s better this way
• Once you get use to it, you’ll like it.

Howto

• MacBook Pro detects external monitor but shows black screen - unplug HDMI from hub & reconnect
• How to Make Mac Keyboards, Mice, and Trackpads Work Like on Windows

Keyboard

• How to remap modifier keys in macOS

• Going From Windows/Linux to MacOS: My Experience + My Essential Tweaks

• How to turn your macOS into a Linux-like Desktop

• AltTab - brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS.

Mouse/Trackpad

• How to separate “mouse” and “trackpad” settings?
  • UnnaturalScrollWheels - Invert scroll direction for physical scroll wheels while maintaining “Natural” scrolling for trackpads on MacOS.
• Zoom with Wheel
  • Quick Zoom extension - Chrome/Edge extension to solve it
  • VSCode set editor.mouseWheelZoom": true

Homebrew

The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)

• Our audit of Homebrew

see also

• Brightness Control

VSCode

VSCode set editor.mouseWheelZoom": true

add VS Code to your path, to do so run the following commands:

$ cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile
# Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="\$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"
EOF

Linux

I do laud the effort here, but personally I will not buy apple again, even with linux. The software is not the only problem with apple’s closed system - the hardware is all but irreparable, locked to approved parts and so on.