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Setting up macOS

Built in macOS keyboard shortcuts

Command-Tab to quickly moving between apps.

`Command-“ to moving quickly between your currently open windows.

Command-hto hide your current window.

Command-wto close the current window

Command-qto quit the current app

Command-xto ‘cut’ a file

Command-cto ‘copy’ a file

Command-pto ‘paste’ a file

Command-Spaceto bring up spotlight to quickly search for apps and files

Package Management

While you can go to website to download applications manually, you can also programmatically download applications with Homebrew

Here are some example apps:

brew install --cask google-chrome visual-studio-code bitwarden

This command will install the apps Google Chrome, VSCode and Bitwarden.

A very helpful app for your Mac is the Rectangle app which has advanced window management: brew install --cask rectangle