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Charlyn's sure-fire way to set up her laptop in no time.
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Laptop Setup.md

Step 1: Update to latest OS

Just do it

Step 2: Change screenshots location

Run this in your terminal:

mkdir ~/Pictures/Screenshots
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/Screenshots
killall SystemUIServer

Now your screenshots will live in ~/Pictures/Screenshots

Step 3: Keyboard and Mouse

Turn it all the way up!

Step 4: Install Brew

Run this to install Brew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Run this to install Cask

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 2> /dev/null

Step 4: Install apps!

  1. Cask

Install iTerm

brew cask install iterm2

Install Fish

brew install fish
  1. Install with App Store
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