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:: have an affair with an apple ::


My son got a used, over ten years old Apple MacBook Pro for me. 
Since years I prefer Linux on ThinkPads. As my "everyday" machine 
I use a ThinkPad T520 [1] with Linux Mint [2], Windows resides in 
a VirtualBox [3] - unfortunately I need it for one or two programs 
I cannot run under Linux. But I have wanted to take a look on macOS 
for a long time. So, here we are ...

The MacBook Pro was very well treated and maintained by the previous 
owner. No scratches, no dents. New battery, original power adapter. 
As a service for daddy my son installed macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina) and 
some other usefull stuff.

Technical Data
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
Processor 2,53 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 288 MB
SSD 128 GB

And the best: I only spent 150 EUR (about 170 USD). For me a very 
resonable price for a device in this condition.

The first impression is extremely positive. The GUI is ok, the 
terminal I love!! First I changed the shell to BASH - old tradition! 
Then I installed "The Missing Package Manager for macOS" - Homebrew 
[4]. With 'brew' I installed 'cowsay' [5] and 'fortune' [6], because: 
only a terminal that starts with the cows wisdom, is a good terminal ;-)

macbook:~ user$ brew install cowsay
macbook:~ user$ brew install fortune

To get the 'cows wisdom' every time you start the terminal, you need 
to append one line to '.profile', located in your home directory:

fortune | cowsay

For editing you can use VIM (Vi IM proved) or, for softies like me, 
'nano'.


Starting your terminal may result in this:

 _______________________________________
/ "Whoever undertakes to set himself up \
| as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is  |
| shipwrecked by the laughter of the    |
| gods."                                |
|                                       |
\ -- Albert Einstein                    /
 ---------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

macbook:~ user$

________________________________________________________________

Next I wanted to enter the 'world of gopher' and I started to 
search for a gopher browser. A search in 'brew' led to no result.

macbook:~ user$ brew search gopher

I also installed 'MacPorts' [7], one more package manager for 
macOS. A quick search and I got, what I was looking for:

macbook:~ user$ sudo port search gopher
...
phetch @1.1.0 (net)
    A terminal client designed to help you quickly navigate the 
    gophersphere.
...

So I installed 'phetch' [8] and entered the 'gopher universe' with 
an extremely good gopher client, I never used before

macbook:~ user$ sudo port install phetch

I was so excited of 'phetch', that I also use it now under Linux.


I continue to explore my macBook. I want to take a closer look on 
the GUI, but it is hard to leave the terminal ....


[1] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/ThinkPad
    gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/ThinkPad T series

[2] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Linux Mint
    https://linuxmint.com/

[3] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/VirtualBox
    https://www.virtualbox.org/

[4] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Homebrew (package manager)
    https://brew.sh/

[5] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Cowsay

[6] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Fortune (Unix)

[7] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/MacPorts
    https://www.macports.org/index.php

[8] gopher://phkt.io/
    https://github.com/xvxx/phetch