The initial setup on a fresh OS

After finishing your MacOS initial setup, you will face that default screen with many default Apple apps on the docker, and nothing configured.

Now let's configure the MacOS with the basic settings.

Settings

These are configurations done in the MacOs settings.

Dock & Menu Bar

• Remove most applications from Dock
• Automatic Hide
• Medium Dock
• Gennie Effect (Gives me that nostalgic feeling)
• "Double-click a window's title bar to" zoom
• Minimize windows into application icon
• Animate opening applications
• "Show recent applications in Dock" off
• "Show indicators for open applications" on
• "Automatically hide and show the menu bar on desktop" off
• "Automatically hide and show the menu bar in full screen" on

Display

• Nightshift

Security

• Touch ID
• FileVault Enabled

Siri

• Disable

Keyboard

• Text
  • Disable "Add full stop with double-space"
  • Disable "Use smart quotes and dashes"
  • Use " for double quotes
  • use ' for single quotes

Mission Control

• Hot Corners: disable all

Finder

• Create a Developer folder inside your home folder ~ (It adds a custom icon to the folder)

• Sidebar:

  • activate all Favorites
  • move Library to Favorites
  • Add Drive and Dropbox to Favorites
  • Add Developer folder to Favorites

• Hide all Tags
  
  

• Show all Filename Extensions

• Remove Items from Bin after 30 Days

Terminal Settings

(Affects Finder and other Applications)

• Show Hidden Files

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder;

• Clear .DS_Store files

sudo find / -name .DS_Store -delete; killall Finder

• Take screenshots as jpg (usually smaller size) and not png

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg; killall Finder;

• Show Library folder

chflags nohidden ~/Library; killall Finder;

• Show path bar

defaults write com.apple.finder ShowPathbar -bool true; killall Finder;

• Show status bar

defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true; killall Finder;