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How 6 Months Have Passed Only with Linux

There were very good and bad sides, and want to reflect on how 6 months have passed without macOS completely

Can Artuc
8 min readDec 4, 2024
Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash

If you follow my posts, you know I said goodbye to my 20-year friend, Apple, but only from the laptop side. I am going to try to make myself zero dependable to any system or service in the coming months and years, but it will not happen by tomorrow. As I have been in the Apple environment for a long time, I don’t have only machines but also accessories that cannot be easily got rid of or need to be sold very cheaply.

When I decided to say goodbye to my Apple Macbook Pro, people thought that it was about the money. It is contrary because I don’t think Apple products are expensive. They want you to accept that they are costly and unreachable for regular humans. Yes, it is true; if you don’t have a certain income and want to sell your kidney (sorry for them), you may not have it. The problem is that you think that you need it! Basically, you don’t, and I wanted to try by myself that I don’t need Apple, starting from the most used device in my life as a principal engineer: Laptop (I know that you thought it should be my mobile phone, but no, it is not for me the case).

Why did I want to dump Apple?

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Can Artuc
Can Artuc

Written by Can Artuc

Data and AI Architect, Dad, Geek

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Great writeup. Honestly.
I've been a mac user since the PowerPC mac pros in 2005 I think it was, then multiple different iterations of minis and macbook pros since. Right now I have a Mac Studio and a Framework 13" running Fedora and an old iMac…

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Check out Ubuntu Budgie...the UI is a step up from most of the Linuxes I've tried. I've yet to find much that doesn't work as you expect...very MacOS-like in that respect.

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Great. Have been using linux full time 10+ years