Mac Setup

⚙️ Automatic configuration for my Mac.

ℹ️ Blog post about moving to macOS after ten years of Linux.

Automatic installation is based upon the following Ansible roles:

• geerlingguy.homebrew manages homebrew installation and packages
• geerlingguy.mas manages apps from the app store
• ansible-role-binaries installs binaries
• ansible-role-shell configures my shell
• ansible-role-pip installs pip packages

Also kudos to Jeff Geerling for his work with mac-dev-playbook which obviously influenced my setup.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap your system to be able to run Ansible:

• xcode-select --install
• export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Library/Python/3.8/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin
• pip3 install --upgrade pip
• pip3 install --user ansible

Run Ansible

Run Ansible with the provided Makefile:

• make install to download required ansible roles
• make configure to run ansible-playbook (sudo password required)

Manual installation

Some apps need to be installed manually

• Download TinkerTool for some extra tweaks
• Download bartender for a clean bar
• Download Minbrowser - a clean browser without any distractions (fix permissions with xattr -cr /Applications/Min.app)
• Download Forklift3 - a finder alternative and replacement
• Download CleanShot X - a screen recording tool
• Chromium cask not working as expected -> download manually and run xattr -cr /Applications/Chromium.app
• Download and install FastRAWViewer
• Download and install a patched font for your terminal
• Download and install BetterDisplay

Configuration

Configuration is mainly done via my dotfiles repo and a private dotfiles repo that contains a script that does the symlinking (via rcm)

Replace Finder with Forklift3

defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift-3;
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType="public.folder";LSHandlerRoleAll="com.binarynights.ForkLift-3";}'