My brother has just started college and I recommended that he should get a Macbook Pro because I have had a blast using one for the past one year. Also, he is interested in Computer Science and said he would like tips to know what to install for a good workstation setup.

Before an internship I primarily used a Linux box and was comfortable using the command line, but always had trouble with various things such as sound, turning on after a sleep, and performance issues on my previous Linux laptop. This might have been due to the fact that the machine wasn’t the highest quality machine and might not have been a good fit for Ubuntu.

As I was making the list I figured it would be good to put up the list online so others can look at my setup and decide whether they want to use any of the tools I do.

General OSX Desktop Tools:

• Toggl
• Yoink
• Bartender
• Flux
• gfxCardStatus
• Alfred
• TotalFinder
• Spectacle
• KeyRemap4Macbook

Development Tools

• MacVim
• Oh My Zsh
• DBeaver
• Sublime Text
• Iterm2

I have remapped the Caps Lock to Control and will have a post discussing how I have made my life better with remapping keys.