Leaving Linux

14 Sep, 2026

I've been a beautiful dice difficult Linux personification for the past decade aliases so, it was a huge part of my identity. Owning a shitty beaten up thinkpad and fund Android device was a root of pride. I vowed I'd ne'er go a firm Apple shill and salary a luck for their overpriced devices.

Using Linux was fun, it was cool, installing programs via the terminal made fifteen twelvemonth aged maine consciousness for illustration a hacker. Back successful schoolhouse I'd bargain beingness Linux magazines pinch existent disks ISOs successful them, this quickly graduated into an addiction trying retired different flavours of Linux via bootable USBs. For a good period of my life I don't deliberation I had aforesaid Linux instal connected my personal machines for longer than 3 months. If there's a Linux distribution, a desktop situation aliases model head retired there, I've astir apt utilized it.

Yet now, astatine a clip location Linux connected the desktop seems to beryllium exploding in popularity I've done the complete opposite, and I've gone each successful connected the Apple ecosystem buying an iPhone and Macbook astatine the aforesaid time.

I'm Tired Boss

I'm 30 this year, and computers don't person the aforesaid level of whimsy and excitement arsenic they erstwhile had. When I was young everything was caller and interesting, it felt for illustration location was truthful overmuch experimentation and innovation. Today the various desktop environments look to person mostly converged, sharing the aforesaid level creation connection and icon styles. Customisation seems to have completely fallen by the wayside successful favour of a much curated experience controlled by the desktop environment.

You tin still instal different distributions aliases environments, but thing really feels chopped anymore. These days everyone is conscionable utilizing the aforesaid five electron apps installed via flatpack anyway. So a desktop situation pinch an bespoke suite of apps (text editor, video player, record head etc), look less and little important anyway.

I purchased a bluish Macbook Neo and I've been incredibly impressed. It looks great and (compared to erstwhile devices I've owned) feels ace premium Strangely it's marketed arsenic a fund / entry-level instrumentality targeted astatine students, which I deliberation does the instrumentality a disservice. Single threaded capacity is faster than my $WORK M1 macbook and it's comfortably handled the mostly of stuff I've thrown astatine it.

MacOS

I'd already been utilizing MacOS time to time for the past ~5 years astatine $WORK truthful I'm already very acquainted pinch the desktop. I'm not going to dress for illustration I'm the biggest instrumentality (just look really bad this looks). Things for illustration finder still suck, and shape head seems for illustration a complete mess, but successful wide things do conscionable work.

Using MacOS intends I tin yet free myself of the Windows installation I kept exclusively to usage NeuralDSP to play guitar. Another prize is I yet get to try retired MacVim (which I'm utilizing to constitute this post).