First time macOS user, what are the essential apps?

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  • Maccy for clipboard history management via simple shortcuts
  • Stats for useful system metrics in the menubar
  • LM Studio for easily exploring open source Large Language Models
  • NoTunes to get rid of Apple Music launching when you connect your headphones
  • Bitwarden for multi-platform password management
  • Rectangle for keyboard-based window management
  • Homebrew if you're a developer/sysadmin/command line user
  • Fluent Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds

You need a separate app to prevent Apple Music from opening?

I don't know about him, but I have my first mac (from work) for two months and I never had Apple Music open when I plugged my headphones in.

I wasn't clear in my description. For me, Apple Music always kept on opening whenever I interacted with my headphones, e.g. by clicking on play/plause buttons, at least since macOS 10.5 in 2007. Might just be an issue on my side (doesn't look like it though), but I've been disabling iTunes/Apple Music for years by making it non-executable until Apple introduced System Integrity Protection, making it impossible to modify Apple's apps. And now I just keep NoTunes running. I can live with it eating 8MB of my RAM.

I literally never had this problem. And I run a Mac since 2012 and I have never even opened music since it is called that way.