GIMP is free and open-source.
Pixelmator/Pixelmator Pro is ok.
Affinity is very popular.
Still I swear by Photoshop. IMO Photoshop is like Office, Heinz ketchup, Windex and Coke. For some products nothing but the real thing will ever be good enough. I find the $10 photography plan with Lightroom to be a really reasonable price for always being on the latest version without compromises.
The major photoshop fail is it is almost like malware, it infests your Mac with files all over your disk.
I'm using Bartender on Mojave and it's completely fine! Go for it.
Never really understood bartender, Menu Apps should be instantly visible, that's what the Menu Bar is for, it hides them, to make them visible again you have to use a keyboard shortcut to show them again, to me that's a fail.
Little Snitch IMHO is a necessity on macOS. None of my Mac's are without it. Haven't used Menumeters but I do use the very popular iStats Menu and Server. For Ad Blocking I use (Router Firmware and Application) Diversion on ASUS WRT-Merlin it blocks ads and trackers from the Router level over the whole LAN. There's now, also, the open source AdGuard Home which is quite good.
I have Ubiquiti gear, afaik there's no way to install a content blocker on it, not even the USG, which actually is a shame.
Other Apps I'm always using:
Mac:
Must be a good app for people who need this, but this is the first time I see one mention this, it's an app only "few" people use, too geeky maybe.
I used to be a lifelong Windows user since 3.1 when I was 7-8 years old. I can’t believe that I didn’t make the switch to OS X earlier but I must say that after you install the essentials: Adobe CC, Handbrake, VLC, a torrent client, something like Magnet, OpenEmu, Office 2019 and a couple more of that sort there really isn’t much worth installing out there. Maybe TextMate 2 as well for programmers out there. Alfred is no longer necessary, Amphetamine isn’t either.
The majority of recommended apps are simple one function utilities or lesser versions of the gold standard photo/video editing programs and a bunch of alternative text editors.
I would love to install more stuff on my MBP but I know that I would never open them again after the first week.
Apple really needs to attract more devs to the Mac App Store and not just independent ones. It has a lot of potential but it’s embarrassing compared to its iOS counterpart.
Huh, plenty of quality Apps available unlike millions of Apps on Windows, who needs 100's of apps which in essence do the same while you only need a few to choose the better one.
Gaming is not macOS strongest side, except for that there's always an equivalent app on macOS.
How can you make so many email addresses?
I use 33mail, free up until a certain extend.
Just an example of how some businesses work:
I ordered an item from an online shop, just a couple of days I got spam from another one, I used to register one of those single use email addresses while I ordered on the site so I knew it came from them, contacted them, they denied, proved it to them, didn't hear back.
