The dotfile looks like a great collection of minor tweaks. Thanks.
I don't know what I lied about on the performance though. The MacBook M2 feels slower and sluggish than what I'm used to. It is of course plenty fast enough for what most people need it for. So, I'm not really saying it's not that. But, on discussions on the Mx architecture, the general opinion is blown out of reality. It started when apple straight up lied and sait it was 3 times faster than the existing competition. They just forgot to mention that existing competition was their own previous offering, which was already mid-range when it was introduced 5 years prior.
Take a look at the numbers there and see if that matches your assumptions:
So, to clarify, my objections are not against "M1/M2 are good CPUs". They are actually pretty great, especially for how well it is supported and integrated with the rest of the system, allowing for exceptional power usage. But, it's not nearly as fast as many think it is. And it's tiring if/when that's the baseline argument for why apple hardware is great. And, I think they are wildly overpriced, especially when upgrading the hardware to the bare minimum for a serious work station (64GB ram and 2TB disk).
The alt-tab issue is solved with the `AltTab` which improves it in all ways.
I also remembered what I found lacking in finder. In Nautilus (the file browser I use on Linux), I can browse any ssh server as if a normal directory. Same goth with samba, sftp. And it also helps that it supports multiple different file systems out of the box.
> But, it's not nearly as fast as many think it is.
I'm running on an M2 Max with 64GB RAM here, both Kali and Windows VMs active and working, while my macOS host is running browsers, email clients, Docker containers, etc. All of this without my fans ever spinning, I'm not even convinced they actually installed the fans in mine, I don't think I've ever heard them.
In short, I'm a heavy user and I've never felt I need more performance in my laptop than this provides.
> And it also helps that it supports multiple different file systems out of the box.
What other filesystems do you need your computer to be able to directly mount? macOS supports FAT, exFAT, NFTS, HFS(+), APFS. Anything else you're probably gonna access through SMB, AFP, NFS, CIFS, FTP, SFTP, or FTPS anyway, all of which are natively supported in macOS (OK, you can't mount SFTP, but I don't get why you would want to honestly).
I don't know what I lied about on the performance though. The MacBook M2 feels slower and sluggish than what I'm used to. It is of course plenty fast enough for what most people need it for. So, I'm not really saying it's not that. But, on discussions on the Mx architecture, the general opinion is blown out of reality. It started when apple straight up lied and sait it was 3 times faster than the existing competition. They just forgot to mention that existing competition was their own previous offering, which was already mid-range when it was introduced 5 years prior.
Take a look at the numbers there and see if that matches your assumptions:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5232vs5183vs4782vs5234v...
So, to clarify, my objections are not against "M1/M2 are good CPUs". They are actually pretty great, especially for how well it is supported and integrated with the rest of the system, allowing for exceptional power usage. But, it's not nearly as fast as many think it is. And it's tiring if/when that's the baseline argument for why apple hardware is great. And, I think they are wildly overpriced, especially when upgrading the hardware to the bare minimum for a serious work station (64GB ram and 2TB disk).
The alt-tab issue is solved with the `AltTab` which improves it in all ways.
I also remembered what I found lacking in finder. In Nautilus (the file browser I use on Linux), I can browse any ssh server as if a normal directory. Same goth with samba, sftp. And it also helps that it supports multiple different file systems out of the box.