I have been using Linux as my OS of choice since early 2019. In this video I talk about why I use Arch Linux, btw, as my daily driver operating system.
This is quite a nerdy video, much moreso than my others and has very (very) little to do with photography. You have been warned.
I read his book on Apple (āThe McIntosh wayā, IIRC) a long time ago. Didnāt find it particularly good (āApple: good, everything else: badā).
The problem with these evangelists is that they essentially preach to the choir, and since their income depends on how much the choir loves them they canāt be too controversialā¦
Thatās what I recall of my impression of him from decades ago, just in general. I didnāt have the stomach to read his book. Too many Apple fanboys in those days seemed to worship at the altar of Steve Jobs. Kind of like those at the altar of Bill Gates and othersā¦
Tumbleweed here. Rolling for those with with less time at hand. Iām treating it like an immutable OS though (near 100% Distrobox, Homebrew and Flatpaks), so I could probably go Fedora Kinoite. Looks like it has gotten some polish lately. Separation of OS core and user installed packages makes 100% sense to me at this stage in lifeā¦
Well, at least not until Sun jumped on the open source bandwagon in the 2000s. Why you could even run (so to speak) Gnome on their workstations. But who wanted to? Sun never quite understood that they were a server company, not a desktop company. Their servers were good (very good in some ways) but they just never understood desktops.
However, as a Sun sysadmin for years I had either a SPARC Ultra 1 or SunBlade 100 (150?) workstation on my physical desktop. That is, until we all kinda decided there was no need to maintain a dedicated Sun box and started using PuTTY, MobaXterm, etc., from our Windows PCs.
But man I thought that roll-around SunFire V880 was the catās meow when it first arrived. A few weeks of managing it as a Networker backup server reminded me that a server is a server is a server is a server is aā¦
Have you heard about openSUSE Aeon/Kalpa? Immutable OSes based on Tumbleweed. They donāt have āstableā releases yet, but at least Aeon has been a blast. Richard Brown, the person leading Aeon development, seems to have a pretty great vision and Iām convinced Aeon will end up in a very nice place.
Yes! Iām a KDE person and and Kalpa seems to be far behind Aeon at this point. From what Iāve heard itās basically a one man band and considered alpha. Thatās why Iām looking at Kinoite.
Sadly, the KDE versions of most distros are usually behind the Gnome ones.
Iāve been on linux since the early 2000ās so for over 20 years now. Nice to see your video. Used to run Arch, now on Manjaro - has been very solid for me for the last 4 years or so.