The computer stopped being fun, so I went back to Linux

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:30:00 -0400

For as long as I can remember I’ve been running Linux on my servers, but on the desktop only ever in short bursts. My main laptop has been a Mac for twenty years, and I don’t have a grievance story about it. What happened was slower than that: the machine got heavy. An M1 Pro with 32 GB of memory is a workhorse, and it still felt like it was carrying something I could never point at, which was hard to square with a workload that is mostly a browser and a terminal. On top of that, whenever I wanted to change how something behaved, the answer was more often that I could not.

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The computer stopped being fun, so I went back to Linux