Although I had spent a lot of time on the command line at age 12 to get Quake 3 and my Nvidia Geforce graphics card running on Linux, this tool was completely forgotten during my adolescence. I worked with Windows – and sometimes DOS – but basically with a GUI. For some years now, the command line has celebrated an unexpected comeback in my life as a historian of technology and computer scientist. Without it, I did not want to be anymore. 🥰
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macOS 10.15 Basic Configuration
Make sure you have macOS 10.15 installed. A quick guide on how to configure your Mac machine with *all* important tools for academic work. Open a terminal and update your installation softwareupdate -i -r Install command line tools better cat Bat, download tool cURL, containerization with Docker, better ls exa, faster find fd, process viewer …