After using terminals (iTerm, Terminal, Kitty) with an M1 Mac without issue for over a year, I finally came upon an issue that I couldn’t solve without using Rosetta. Rosetta is Mac software to run Intel Mac terminal commands on an M1 Mac. My issue initially came from trying to use Pyenv to install and use different versions of Python across multiple projects. After installing Rosetta, I initially used it by adding a custom flag to commands like this arch -x86_64 . This worked for me but was really error prone, “Did I forget the flag? Did I add the flag in the correct place?”.

This document describes solving M1 Mac vs Intel Mac terminal command discrepancies by creating a copy of your terminal and setting it up to run Intel Mac terminal commands using Rosetta. Although the process of making a Rosetta termi

I recently decided to switch from macOS BigSur 11.7.10 to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS after Apple decided to no longer provide updates for my MacBook Pro 11,1. During this transition I learned about various tweaks to improve user experience for MacBook users.

As a MacBook user you are probably used to keyboard shortcuts involving the ⌘ command key like ⌘ command+C and ⌘ command+V to copy/paste respectively. However, in Ubuntu pressing the ⌘ command key by default will open the Activities Overview which is similar to the Exposé view in macOS which is not what we want. As it turns out, Ubuntu involves the control key for almost all combinations you may be used to that involve the ⌘ command key in macOS. Luckily Ubuntu is quite configurable and we can tailor it to our needs.