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Huh, I strongly prefer the Apple option in all those cases. Usually when I'm on other platforms I wish I had Apple's programs there (OMG, the "office"-type apps like Pages and Numbers when I'm on Linux especially—plus Preview, of course, which is excellent). Apple's first-party programs are a huge part of why I'd have trouble leaving the platform—not so much because of lock-in, but because I find them excellent compared to most of the competition, free or commercial, and would hate to have to switch to the programs I have to use when I'm on those platforms.

I did use iTerm2 for a long time until it dawned on me I was using zero features that Terminal didn't support, so I stopped. Terminal's lighter and has lower input latency and it's one less thing to install.

I might start using Firefox again if they fixed a couple integration/UI issues and got their power use to roughly what Safari's is. Until then, it's Safari all the way.

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I agree a lot here - Apple's first party apps are a big part of what keeps me on macOS & in Apple's ecosystem. Preview alone is a superb app, Terminal.app is fast and reliable (I have had a lot of performance issues with iTerm2), Mail.app is my preferred mail client (I haven't found any other that I like as much on any platform!), Safari is my browser of choice (although I wish it could still run uBlock Origin), Keynote & Pages are by far my preference over Powerpoint/Word or Slides/Docs.

There are some apps that are less impressive though - Photos is merely okay but I haven't found anything else that does the job better, and Numbers is quite sluggish with larger sheets.

I use Adguard as a replacement for uBlock Origin on Safari, which works well!

Have you tried Kitty? It blows iTerm2 and Terminal.app out of the water in performance. It's also feature rich, if you have wild terminal feature needs. I'm mostly in it for the speed, though.

Have you tried Orion? WebKit based, privacy focused + chrome or firefox extensions. It is my main browser, and works for almost everything I do. My last employer used Office365 and using Orion didn't work well, but that was the only site I had to use another browser.

https://browser.kagi.com/

You prefer the default apple screenshotting app over clean shot x? Really? Have you even tried clean shot?

I for one have long since memorised all the keyboard shortcuts for screenshots. And for everything else there’s command-shift-five.

I haven’t personally used clean shot X, but a tool has to be way, way, way better than the built-in default to get me to change. It doesn’t matter what clean shot X can do better; clean shot X loses because se it isn’t going to be on every Mac I sit in front of.

How is it better?

Marking up images, being able to blur out certain areas of an image, OCR, Visual indicator of keys pressed in screen recording mode. Cleanshot is really just a screenshot tool with some minor but useful editing tools.

OCR's built in to macOS these days. Works pretty well. Would have been a notable feature not that long ago, though, true.

Better screen recording would be nice but I do it rarely enough that Quicktime is fine. If I did it more I'd definitely have to find some other solution.

All the marking up and such—well, there are many reasons that Preview is possibly my favorite single program on Macs.

cmd+shift+4 is all I ever use. Select area, screenshot goes to clipboard, done.

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