Show HN: Make OS X Great Again – Mac app that fixes the annoying parts of OS X (makeosxgreatagain.com)

Hi HN, I kept being annoyed by OS X things like: repeatedly asking if I want to update OS X, opening iTunes when I plugged in my iPhone, putting screenshots only to desktop, saving screenshots as 4mb PNG instead of JPG, I couldn't minimize all my 26 opened windows in one click, my desktop always mess of files and I can’t just hide them. So I've made the app that fixes this. Demo: https://www.makeosxgreatagain.com/demo/ What keeps annoying you in OS X? I will try to add it, so we can make it great again :)

  - killing full screen animations
  - hiding full screen apps like any other (cmd-h)
  - keyboard control for notifications

// Disable update notifications:

Open System Preferences on your Mac and select “App Store.” Then click “Install macOS Updates (or “Install OS X Updates” for older software).

// To minimize all open windows in MacOS:

Minimize and Hide All Windows in Mac OS X with Command+Option+H+M.

// To stop iTunes from opening automatically when you connect your iPhone

Open iTunes and then go to Preferences by using keyboard shortcut Command-comma or by going to iTunes > Preferences. Next, click the Devices tab and then check the box for Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically.

// How to Change Your Mac's Default Screenshot Directory

Click Command+N to open a new Finder window.

Click Command+Shift+N to create a new folder, where your screenshots will go.

Type "terminal" and select Terminal.

Ignoring the quotation marks, type "defaults write com.apple.screencapture location " making sure to enter the space at the end after 'location'.

Click Enter.

// For JPG instead of PNG:

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

> Stop asking for updates

I think Apple has a pretty aggressive policy around encouraging updates, and I'd imagine it's because having up-to-date software is an annoying necessity. Those notifications annoy me too, but ignoring them at the cost of missing security patches seems unideal.

If anyone has a way to make the red X button actually close an app like Windows, would be most greatful! Microsoft apps like Outlook tend to work, but most apps don't, the most annoying being Firefox (if I use the red X to close, it's still running and won't auto restore my tabs when I click it again). I've tried RedQuits but doesn't seem to work anymore. :/

That “Make X great again” tag line was funny for a while but I think that’s in the past. I’d choose something else.

Even priced the same as an Apple product, nice.

I gave up almost two years ago. Keeping iPhone and watch, but I feel I can do much better on Linux (fedora).

Second the comment about “make x great again”.

Make great again, would imply there was a time that the OS was overall better than it is today, which is of course rather silly since while there an incredibly long list of small imrpovements we would all love to see, there is no previous version of macOS that I imagine that see as being greater and thus would revert too. But would love to see app like, "Make OS X Even Better. Hard to imagine an app that could fix all of those things. As anything you defaults you can change via terminal commands are already available for free on github like the popular https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles, unless this app plans to have core functionality versus just running terminal commands once.

If you would pay $10 for this, you deserve to pay $10 for this.

*macOS

True to my Word, I've written a FOSS application which executes these terminal commands from a simple GUI.

https://github.com/nicoleoic/PsyPrefs/

It's my first FOSS project! :)

IMHO that is way too much asked for a UI around commands you can snatch from https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-macos-command-line via copy/paste.