The only thing I really miss at work after moving from Windows to macOS is AutoHotKey.
I tried Hammerspoon. I thought having a more normal language (lua) would make it easier, but it felt more like fewer batteries were included, which made the ramp up seem steeper. Trivial things in AHK seemed like they needed a lot of extra supporting functions to enable it in HS. Some rose colored glasses could be involved here as well, as AHK had a lot of its own quirks I had to work around to make it reliable… but that was for robust code, not simple functionality. I also had a lot of downtime at work when first using AHK… time I didn’t have when I was trying to get HS going. I stopped using it while trying to diagnose some mouse/windowing issues I was having. It’s safe to say it wasn’t the problem, but I haven’t gone back to it.
AppleScript exists, and JavaScript support has been added, but it seems like Apple doesn’t care much about it anymore.
Shortcuts isn’t as powerful, and without an Apple ID (which I can’t have on my work Mac), I don’t think I can actually share or migrate anything I make, which makes it feel like a dead end. It’s also pretty slow.
Automator also seems like it will be sunset at some point, in favor of Shortcuts.
I haven’t. I should probably give it a closer look, but need to check to see if the security team at work denied it or not before I invest any money in something.
I thought it used to be more expensive, but maybe I was just making less at the time and that anchor remained in my head.
Industry-specific applications often run only on Windows: Small organizations make them, limiting capacity to support more platforms, and their clients are businesses and therefore usually use Windows. For example, I'd expect that most software for running accountants' offices would run only on Windows.
A big exception is vendor-hosted browser-based software, which can run on more platforms. Some features could still be Windows-only. Another exception is phone-based software.
IDM - Internet Download Manager -- Only available for Windows, never saw a proper alternative for Linux/MacOS with the same reliability and browser integration.
Though no longer download videos/files enough to complain about it.
I end up using yt-dlp on macOS/Linux to download videos if needed. It’s worked on pretty much everything I’ve tried it on so far. Though admittedly not at seamless as a button being injected into the page itself.
Most of the killer apps I use on Linux are either free versions of Mac apps (eg. Planify) or server software that will never run like-native (eg. Docker).
Notepad++, I really want that software on my Mac.
Agree. Currently using VSCode, but its not really a dedicated file editor.
The only thing I really miss at work after moving from Windows to macOS is AutoHotKey.
I tried Hammerspoon. I thought having a more normal language (lua) would make it easier, but it felt more like fewer batteries were included, which made the ramp up seem steeper. Trivial things in AHK seemed like they needed a lot of extra supporting functions to enable it in HS. Some rose colored glasses could be involved here as well, as AHK had a lot of its own quirks I had to work around to make it reliable… but that was for robust code, not simple functionality. I also had a lot of downtime at work when first using AHK… time I didn’t have when I was trying to get HS going. I stopped using it while trying to diagnose some mouse/windowing issues I was having. It’s safe to say it wasn’t the problem, but I haven’t gone back to it.
AppleScript exists, and JavaScript support has been added, but it seems like Apple doesn’t care much about it anymore.
Shortcuts isn’t as powerful, and without an Apple ID (which I can’t have on my work Mac), I don’t think I can actually share or migrate anything I make, which makes it feel like a dead end. It’s also pretty slow.
Automator also seems like it will be sunset at some point, in favor of Shortcuts.
Tried Keyboard Maestro?
I haven’t. I should probably give it a closer look, but need to check to see if the security team at work denied it or not before I invest any money in something.
I thought it used to be more expensive, but maybe I was just making less at the time and that anchor remained in my head.
Industry-specific applications often run only on Windows: Small organizations make them, limiting capacity to support more platforms, and their clients are businesses and therefore usually use Windows. For example, I'd expect that most software for running accountants' offices would run only on Windows.
A big exception is vendor-hosted browser-based software, which can run on more platforms. Some features could still be Windows-only. Another exception is phone-based software.
IDM - Internet Download Manager -- Only available for Windows, never saw a proper alternative for Linux/MacOS with the same reliability and browser integration.
Though no longer download videos/files enough to complain about it.
I end up using yt-dlp on macOS/Linux to download videos if needed. It’s worked on pretty much everything I’ve tried it on so far. Though admittedly not at seamless as a button being injected into the page itself.
Most of the killer apps I use on Linux are either free versions of Mac apps (eg. Planify) or server software that will never run like-native (eg. Docker).