|💀|First time macOS user, what are the essential apps?
- Maccy for clipboard history management via simple shortcuts
- Stats for useful system metrics in the menubar
- LM Studio for easily exploring open source Large Language Models
- NoTunes to get rid of Apple Music launching when you connect your headphones
- Bitwarden for multi-platform password management
- Rectangle for keyboard-based window management
- Homebrew if you’re a developer/sysadmin/command line user
- Fluent Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds
You need a separate app to prevent Apple Music from opening?
calm.like.a.bombI don’t know about him, but I have my first mac (from work) for two months and I never had Apple Music open when I plugged my headphones in.
I wasn’t clear in my description. For me, Apple Music always kept on opening whenever I interacted with my headphones, e.g. by clicking on play/plause buttons. Might just be an issue on my side (doesn’t look like it though), but I’ve been disabling iTunes/Apple Music for years by making it non-executable until Apple introduced System Integrity Protection, making it impossible to modify Apple’s apps.
I literally never had this problem. And I run a Mac since 2012 and I have never even opened music since it is called that way.