I just got my first mac, a (beautiful) retina MacBook Pro 13".
What should I install? I used windows (and ganoo/looniks) till yesterday...
Any other tipps?
Also Apple general, I guess.
install homebrew, tap cask and whatever else you need
>>52189186
What does that do?
Are they just missing packages?
>>52189186
>homebrew
lol
it's fucking pointless.
>>52189212
it serves as a package manager. install pretty much anything else you need
>>52189230
i can't comprehend a retarded post as vague as this, let alone respond to it. you'll need to try harder.
>>52189168
Thinking about getting one myself but probably going to wait until they release them with Skylakes.
>>52189263
at this point, just wait until they change over from magsafe or do something else that breaks things (like replace thunderbolt with usb type c or something else crazy).
Skylake might come with that, but if it doesn't, wait another generation (or two). I'm assuming that you can wait, of course.
>>52189263
Oh yeah, that'd be a great choice.
I couldn't wait untill skylake because my old windows-laptop broke, but I'll probably sell this once skylake comes out and get the new one.
It is wonderful btw
>>52189247
I honestly don't know if I need a package manager...
I mean, what's the point when I can install programms with 2 mouse clicks?
>>52189297
>I mean, what's the point when I can install programms with 2 mouse clicks?
update everything withbrew update; brew upgrade --all
install everything to a single place that you can wrangle as needed
figures out which dependencies need to be resolved (for instance, if program A needs B, C, and D, and C needs E and F. Homebrew determines these things and installs all the dependencies you don't have when you say "install A").
>>52189337
Ok this makes sense, i'll give it a look
>>52189287
Yeah, that's a good point. My current laptop is slowly dying, so hopefully it holds out for a bit longer for the next gen (please be soon).
>>52189297
That's fair, man. What specs did you go for, btw?
Install gentoo
>>52189386
the really frustrating thing about having a laptop on its last legs is that you can kind of tell if it'll make it another 2 generations or 1 or whatever. And you really don't want to know that your laptop is like 5 months from giving up the ghost, see a new release, and decide to try and hold out for 5 months (or worse, 8 or 10 months).
The worst case scenario is buying a laptop because you needed it, and timing being such that a better version of that same laptop comes out just after the window closes on returning and getting the better one. ideally you want to buy a good laptop as soon as it comes out to maximize its time as the flagship, but that means both
A) knowing that the laptop is good (sometimes companies don't recognize what they got right in the last model)
B) having the money/need for a new laptop at the right time. depending on how disposable money is, you might be able to get away with buying more frequently, but i doubt people are buying new laptops every year or even every 2 years unless something catastrophic happened.
>>52189386
i went for the base model (didn't have more to spend, but also couldn't ustify it)
dual-core i5 -> plenty of power for what i do, more is just a waste of battery and money
8gb ram -> (next gen should have ddr4) i did fine with 4 till now, so 8 will be more than enough for the next 4-5 years.
128 gb ssd -> a lot of people say it isn't enough blah blah blah
i only store movies on my external hdd (i mean it's not like i keep a tera of movies on my laptop), if i need to watch a movie i just copy it on the macbook. music is less than 10 gb so no prob, pictures are also on the ext hdd (i only have a couple of important picture locally).
uni stuff takes is also ~15 gb, so 128 is enough for me.
>>52189458
yes the best thing is to buy a new generation (but never the first) as soon as it comes out