I like dragging it to the top of my finder favourites once it is showing.

Unfortunately finder doesn’t display it by default, but it’s available as a favourite if you open finders preferences from the menu bar and select it. I like being able to navigate to my home folder as quickly as possible. I like to see the full desktop whilst I’m working, so I also enable “Automatically hide and show the Dock”. The recent icons also take a chunk of space, they can be removed by: “System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar” and unchecking “Show recent applications in Dock” You can remove each one by right clicking the icon and selecting: “Options > Remove from Dock” You always have the option of adding them back there and everything is able to be found through spotlight. I don’t have a need for most of them and so remove them straight away. I find the dock really busy and distracting with all the default applications that are lined along it. To disable it, go to: “System preferences > Mouse > Scroll Direction: Natural” and uncheck the box. This is the first thing I always disable. Why Apple felt inverting the mouse was necessary for their devices, I’ll never really understand and is just confusing when switching between Apple and PC as I’m regularly doing. These are all personal and meant to streamline my work as a developer.

There’s a number of things I dislike that are switched on by default in Mac OS. There’s a number of different things I cover so use these links to jump to the parts you’re most interested in: Surprisingly, the installation process was fairly simple now there are versions of software written for Apples new architecture. What follows is all the steps in written form as a handy reference for you to copy and paste from - or future me. You can also check out a youtube video I’ve made on setting it up. I recently updated my 2012 Mac Mini with a 2021 M1 Mac Mini and decided to document the first time setup process.

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