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I'm looking to start using a MacBook for work as well as personal use so looking to software alternatives for my currently used apps.

First up is Putty, can anyone recommend a Mac alternate? (I don't want to use terminal and ssh commands all the time)
 
I'm looking to start using a MacBook for work as well as personal use so looking to software alternatives for my currently used apps.

First up is Putty, can anyone recommend a Mac alternate? (I don't want to use terminal and ssh commands all the time)
Termius or Royal TSX. There’s also iTerm 2.
 
I have a load of Pis I connect to via SSH, both at home and externally and I always just use SSH in Terminal. I've never heard of Termius, am I missing something useful?

Termius lets you save sessions so you can just double click on a session icon and then your SSH session opens. It's quicker than using Terminal. I can't find a font setting that I like for Terminal so find Termius easier on the eyes.

So you're not missing the ability do do anything as such, but with Termius you can open a session quicker.
 
I'm just playing around with Alfred 4 and am a bit overwhelmed with everything you can do with it. Can someone give me some examples of what you use it for so I can get some idea?
 
I'm just playing around with Alfred 4 and am a bit overwhelmed with everything you can do with it. Can someone give me some examples of what you use it for so I can get some idea?
I was exactly the same when I first started using Macs and Alfred was mentioned. I installed it and was completely overwhelmed with what it can do so I went back to just using Spotlight.

I still mainly use it as an app launcher but I also have some custom workflows configured, one called 'boot' which opens all the apps I generally open when I boot my Mac. Another one called 'messages' which opens (you guessed it), Messages, Messenger and WhatsApp. I have some radio applications which, when I use them, I always open them in a specific order with a slight delay in between.

I've got some custom web searches configured for specific sites, my blog, a callsign lookup engine, short wave frequency lookups, etc.

I've also tweaked the default search so if it doesn't find any local results, it searches google but with " -site:pinterest.*" on the end for obvious reasons.

Alfred can do a lot, even with the things I'm doing, I've barely scratched the surface. I looked at some YouTube guides to show how to do things and it gave me ideas.
 
I was exactly the same when I first started using Macs and Alfred was mentioned. I installed it and was completely overwhelmed with what it can do so I went back to just using Spotlight.

I still mainly use it as an app launcher but I also have some custom workflows configured, one called 'boot' which opens all the apps I generally open when I boot my Mac. Another one called 'messages' which opens (you guessed it), Messages, Messenger and WhatsApp. I have some radio applications which, when I use them, I always open them in a specific order with a slight delay in between.

I've got some custom web searches configured for specific sites, my blog, a callsign lookup engine, short wave frequency lookups, etc.

I've also tweaked the default search so if it doesn't find any local results, it searches google but with " -site:pinterest.*" on the end for obvious reasons.

Alfred can do a lot, even with the things I'm doing, I've barely scratched the surface. I looked at some YouTube guides to show how to do things and it gave me ideas.

If it's stuff like custom launchers (in order, delays etc), would Shortcuts in Monterey offer similar functionality? My last laptop couldn't go past Big Sur so now I'm on Monterey I was guessing I could do something similar with some shortcuts...
 
I was exactly the same when I first started using Macs and Alfred was mentioned. I installed it and was completely overwhelmed with what it can do so I went back to just using Spotlight.

I still mainly use it as an app launcher but I also have some custom workflows configured, one called 'boot' which opens all the apps I generally open when I boot my Mac. Another one called 'messages' which opens (you guessed it), Messages, Messenger and WhatsApp. I have some radio applications which, when I use them, I always open them in a specific order with a slight delay in between.

I've got some custom web searches configured for specific sites, my blog, a callsign lookup engine, short wave frequency lookups, etc.

I've also tweaked the default search so if it doesn't find any local results, it searches google but with " -site:pinterest.*" on the end for obvious reasons.

Alfred can do a lot, even with the things I'm doing, I've barely scratched the surface. I looked at some YouTube guides to show how to do things and it gave me ideas.

Awesome. Thank you very much. I have a few things I do often which might be worth looking at turning into a workflow.

P.S Amateur radio is something I'd love to get involved in.
 
If it's stuff like custom launchers (in order, delays etc), would Shortcuts in Monterey offer similar functionality? My last laptop couldn't go past Big Sur so now I'm on Monterey I was guessing I could do something similar with some shortcuts...
Probably but having bought Alfred, I may as well use it. It's also great that it synchronises so everything I configure on my iMac works the same on my MBA.
 
I've been playing with an app called Tabby. It has profiles which are a bit like saved connections in putty I think. I've been using it for serial connections to embedded micros I develop for.

I was looking at getting ZOC Terminal as I do a lot of command-line work but wasn't sure if I should buy a license for it if there was anything better available. I also looked at MacTerm which looked good for an open-source solution.

Any advice would be great. Anything that makes SSH, SCP and SFTP easier to use is a bonus.
 
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