Mac-M1-First-Setting-Guide

• Recommended Apps in App Store
• Is Apple Silicon Ready?
• Terminal Setting
• Oh-My-Zsh
• Homebrew
  • Homebrew-Cask
    • iTerm2
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Docker
    • Java
  • JEnv
• Recommand Applications From The Official Page
  • Fork

Recommended Apps in App Store

1. Magnet

Is Apple Silicon Ready?

You can check the app which has prepared already in Apple Silicon in the following URL:

https://isapplesiliconready.com/

Terminal Setting

1. Bash prompt setting

    albert@MyMac ~ % echo $PS1      // %n@%m %1~ %#
    albert@MyMac ~ % export PS1="%n#"
    albert#
   

Oh-My-Zsh

Oh-My-Zsh manages the config for zsh. It makes you easily to set the zsh's theme, plugins, etc.

# sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Then the Terminal.app or iTerm will change another theme. Also, you can find the configuration .zshrc and .zcompdump-* in the path ~/. At the same time, there is a file .oh-my-zsh contained Oh-My-Zsh resources.

.zshrc          -> save theme here.
.zcompdump-*    -> speed up the running of compinit which initializes the shell completion in zsh

Official Themes: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes

External Themes: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/External-themes

Now, just pick a theme you like, and save the theme into your "~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/" directory. (I prefer af-magic)

So, how to change the theme, just follow the steps:

    # vim ~/.zshrc
    
    // add or modify the property 'ZSH_THEME', and ':wq' to save and leave this config
    --------------------------------------------------
    ZSH_THEME="af-magic.zsh-theme"
    --------------------------------------------------
    
    # source ~/.zshrc

Homebrew

Homebrew is a tool for managing those applications on your mac. It has supported on Mac M1, but it will have different installation path base on the chips:

• macOS Intel: /usr/local
• Apple Silicon: /opt/homebrew

In installation, you can install Homebrew by bash or zsh, and the different in the between is about the Configuration file.

The configuration files are .bashrc in non-login interactive shells and .profile or .bash_profile in login shells of Bash.

In Zsh, non-login shells are .zshrc and login shells are .zprofile.

Following those Install Steps (M1) as below:

1. Open your terminal.app

2. Install Homebrew in one line by bash or zsh (here use bash)

    # /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
   

3. Set Homebrew into the PATH

    # echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.zprofile
    # eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
    # brew help
   

Homebrew-Cask (@Homebrew)

Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew, and it helps that you don't need to click, drag and drop while install some GUI applications.

# brew install cask

Then it will install the formulaes as following:

bdw-gc      gmp         libevent    m4          readline
c-ares      gnutls      libffi      nettle      unbound
cask        guile       libidn2     nghttp2     coreutils
jansson     libtasn1    openssl@1.1 emacs       jemalloc
libtool     p11-kit     gettext     libev       libunistring
pkg-config

iTerm2 (@Cask)

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal. It brings the terminal into something modern features, eg. split panes, search hightlight, autocomplete, etc.

# brew install --cask iterm2

After installed, you can get a new folder .config which is contains iTerm2's information, and also can see Item2 has installed in Application file already.

Visual Studio Code (@Cask)

// TODO: import and export in common setting and extensions

# brew install --cask visual-studio-code

Docker (@Cask)

Now (2021-09-17) still not support in native apple sillicon. So, if you want to install and run docker, please install rosetta-2 first.

# softwareupdate --install-rosetta
# brew install --cask docker

If you really don't know how to use docker, please see my article :) https://medium.com/alberthg-docker-notes

Java Zulu (@Cask)

There have different JDK builds, like openjdk, zulu, adoptopenjdk etc. Here I prefer to use zulu.

Java 8

# brew install --cask homebrew/cask-versions/zulu8

Java 11

# brew install --cask homebrew/cask-versions/zulu11

While using homebrew to install jdk, you can find the unpackaging folder in the path:

# ls /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/

And find JAVA_HOME like:

# /usr/libexec/java_home -V

JEnv

# brew install jenv
# echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.jenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
# echo 'eval "$(jenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc

Set ${JAVA_HOME} by jenv

# jenv enable-plugin export
# exec $SHELL -l

Then restart the terminal, and make sure you already installed jdk like zulu:

# jenv doctor
# jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-8.jdk/Contents/Home
# jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-11.jdk/Contents/Home

Now, you can check the jdk's version you have, and change the version you want to use:

# jenv versions
# jenv local zulu64-1.8.0.302

Fork

A Git GUI offerring a visual representation of your repositories. Fork have basic free version, but if your budget is avaliable, buy them a cup of coffee (XDD).