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I Miss BSD/Linux

I miss BSD/Linux. Or was that GNU/Unix, I’m not sure? Silly jokes to get a statistical …

But the passive cooling, the ideal form factor, the superb screen, the amazing battery life and the explosive performance of Apple’s laptops are very hard to ignore. DEVONthink; although I’ve been using Obsidian with a few PDF-related plugins lately and it works equally well as I use only 20% of DEVON’s full capabilities; Alfred; although I could easily configure all shortcuts in a good window manager if I wanted to; Affinity Designer that’s only available on macOS and Win; although I’m an occasional newbie and rely on ImageMagick and GIMP for simple edits instead. Thanks to open source software alternatives (LibreOffice instead of Office/Pages etc, Restic instead of Time Machine, the Subsonic family instead of Music, Firefox instead of Safari, …), the transition should be relatively painless.

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