Best El Capitan Apps

[Sands207]

I am somewhat new to Mac and I was wondering what apps everyone uses daily for browsers,utilities, mail or tweaks etc? Is there a good list compiled somewhere?

 

[keysofanxiety]

I am somewhat new to Mac and I was wondering what apps everyone uses daily for browsers,utilities, mail or tweaks etc? Is there a good list compiled somewhere?

You don't need to worry about utility applications/tweaks. Just shut down every few days and OS X will look after itself. It's a bit of a daunting prospect when you've come from Windows, but just trust that you don't need to do any maintenance at all.

Personally I just use Safari for the Internet browser, it's by far the fastest on OS X, has much better resource optimisation, and the multitouch gestures are far ahead of the competition.

You'll get mixed responses about the mail application. A lot of us use Mac Mail which is fine, but if you have a Gmail account or work with a lot of subfolders, I find there can be a lot of syncing issues with the mail server. If you run into such issues or don't like the built-in mail application, you can try Outlook (which comes with Office 16/365), or for best reliability use Thunderbird -- though it doesn't look pretty, it always works.

 

[Sands207]

You don't need to worry about utility applications/tweaks. Just shut down every few days and OS X will look after itself. It's a bit of a daunting prospect when you've come from Windows, but just trust that you don't need to do any maintenance at all.

Personally I just use Safari for the Internet browser, it's by far the fastest on OS X, has much better resource optimisation, and the multitouch gestures are far ahead of the competition.

You'll get mixed responses about the mail application. A lot of us use Mac Mail which is fine, but if you have a Gmail account or work with a lot of subfolders, I find there can be a lot of syncing issues with the mail server. If you run into such issues or don't like the built-in mail application, you can try Outlook (which comes with Office 16/365), or for best reliability use Thunderbird -- though it doesn't look pretty, it always works.

Thank you, I use Thunderbird in Ubuntu and Windows so ill stick with that on OS X as well. I appreciate the feedback

 

[fisherking]

don't see any reason to shut down every few days, but a restart is good occasionally (especially if things are starting to feel sluggish). places like macupdate.com are great resources for 'small' apps (like tweaks, etc) as well. and this community (when it isn't fighting over OS versions, etc ) is a great resource for help (and opinions).