I hate Macs

I hate:

• The top-of-screen menu system. The top-of-window menus on Windows/Linux are only marginally better. Best of all are the pure context-sensitive menus of RISC OS.
• The apple-key/control key clash between Windows/Linux and Mac.
• Lack of focus-follows-mouse and typing into background windows
• find does not have '.' as the default directory (despite grep -r having that)
• Struggling to have the dock at the bottom of the top monitor.
• The inflexibility of binding global hot-keys without having to 'allow' it for every application individually.
• The red dot on system settings that nags me to log in to apple cloud even though I don't want to and never will.
• My wife's Mac - we linked her apple watch to her account, and the computer grew slower, and slower, and slower. We gave her a different account ON THE SAME MACHINE without reformatting or anything other than a different user WITHOUT THE WATCH LINKED, and it runs like a dream.
  
• How the whole system arrogantly behaves as if it's perfect, but when it goes wrong, it's nearly impossible to work out why or how to fix it.
• That you can't set 'Even more space' on a monitor in display preferences, just because Apple is too lazy and opinionated to let you exceed their range of scales: I have a screen in the office which is physically as large as my 3840x2160 at home, but is only 2650x1440 in resolution. I don't care about text looking worse: I want 66% scaling. I want the effective screen real estate back!
• I've tried the alternatives I've found for this, and they don't work. Or I'm too stingy to pay for what should come for free. apple.
• Notwithstanding https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-fixing-external-monitor-scaling-and-fuzziness-issues-with-mbp-and-osx.2179968/ I still have no overscaling.
•  You can't set 'tiled' background images. Not unless you happen to find an image which the system mysteriously considers 'small' enough. This doesn't mean pixel-small, but some weird other idea. Once you find an image like that, the 'tile' option appears, AND THEN YOU CAN SELECT ANY OTHER IMAGE TO TILE REGARDLESS OF SIZE. If apple had any pride, they'd at least re-evaluate the setting and block it for images of the 'wrong' size. But... apple care so little about anything other than taking money, they don't even care about their own software. apple developers have no pride in their work: if they did, they wouldn't work there.
• aPPLE IS WORSE THAN MICROSOFT EVER USED TO BE.
• apple UIs are unintuitive, inconsistent, and badly designed.
• apple have contempt for their users. Once they have your money, they don't care
• apple starts with a silent 'cr'.
  

I like:

    The fingerprint thing. But then my Android phone had that before the macbook. Some of the screensavers are nice.

Every new Mac...

Things I have to do for every new Mac work forces me to use (and they only force me to use them because apple are so scared of fair competition that they make it illegal to run their software on any other hardware).

• Delete all the icons to the crappy Apple apps that Google does much better.

• Remove all icons: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array

• Download Chrome
• Preferences
• ScreenSaver
• Hot Corners
• Delete the stupid bottom right 'notes' rubbish
• Set up 'Start screen saver' in the top left
• Keyboard
• Input Sources
• British PC
• Function keys as function keys
• Shortcuts
• Services
• General
• Launch Terminal -> F4  (see Automator later)
• Trackpad
• Disable 'Natural' scrolling
• Finder > Go > Go to Folder.
• Type ~/Library in the Go To Folder
• Drag the word 'Library' to the Favourites
  
• Allows Automator to save in Library/Services
  
• Automator.app
• Choose Application type
• Library > Utilities > Run shell script
• Paste: osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script ""' -e 'tell application "Terminal" to activate'
• Save in ~/Applications as 'StupidTerminalLauncherApp.app' or something.
  
• Choose type Quick action
• 'Workflow (actually quick action)' receives no input
  
• Library > Utilities > Run shell script
• Paste:
• open -a /Applications/StupidTerminalLauncherApp.app
• This indirection avoids having to give EVERY app permission to open Terminal, if you press f4 on it.
• Used to be Applescript - on run {input, parameters} tell application "Terminal" do script " " activate end tell return input end run - but this is terser.
• Click the 'Run' |> triangle to check the terminal appears
  
• Go allll the way up to the top of the screen to save your work from the window right down at the bottom of the screen.
  
•  Quit Apple's Settings (if it's running) and re-launch it
• Keyboard> Shortcuts> Services> General> It should appear here. Eventually.
• It WON'T let you press anything other than a function key
• If you press the wrong function key, you must move the pointer OFF the highlit field and then back on again, or it will ignore you.
  
• Heaven help you if you actually want to override some stupid Apple default, like Fn-E, because Apple certainly won't let you. It just goes 'beep' to tell you that you that Apple don't understand why you might want to do something Apple weren't clever enough or considerate enough to think someone might want to do. You must comply with Apple.
• Oh, but it seems you can map globe to ctrl: Settings> Keyboard> Shortcuts (?!!?)> Modifier keys (!?!)> Globe key = Ctrl
  
• Shell
• Set up 'infinite history'
• Install xcode (cc just comes with Unix, normally)
• brew
• magic docker - podman... or actually now brew docker colima
• Disable stupid long-press keyboard letters international stuff:

• defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false 

•  I want K to auto-repeat, not to offer ķ - I'm on an explicitly BRITISH keyboard. If I want international letters, I'll insert them from the characters thingy. If you MUST offer the long-press thing, bring up a link to the relevant part of Settings alongside the proffered character!
• Always show .files in finder and search dialogues
• defaults write -g AppleShowAllFiles -bool true