💡 Look at the tools you use daily: is your performance negatively affected by them? Do you have too many notifications that grab you from the flow state and plummet productivity? Steve Jobs famously never let his kids use iPads, and Zuck doesn't use Facebook (or any Meta product) the way we use it. Why should you be led rather than doing what the leaders do?

This paradigm extends further towards the tool stack that you use. Are you a slave of an ecosystem, paying increasingly more money to trillion-dollar corporations for no benefit whatsoever? Are you sure you need all of these bells and whistles (that also track you) and that you can't get them anywhere else? Well, have you tried? I'm sure I have.

I've switched from iPhones to Androids around 2014. Since then, I've been buying flagship iPhones annually to test them out again (see if they've improved) — yet 2-4 weeks later, I always return them for various reasons. Mostly, I experience subpar performance and micro-freezes when using iOS. Things I can do quickly on Android don't work fast enough on iOS. For example, try opening an Android app with 2x the speed of animations and then the same app on iOS that doesn't have an animation speed-up setting. Jerry perfectly summed up my experience in this video.

Recently, I switched from MacOS to Linux. Since Apple introduced M processors, I thought it was stupid to buy any other laptop. Boy, I was wrong. It turned out that even if MacBooks on M3 are mighty (and Intel with AMD are quickly catching up), I didn't need that type of performance at all. Hence, paying a premium for something I didn't need is like driving a 911 with three kids — parents can attest to how stupid this is. Even though I can afford a full-blown 911, I opt for a Honda Odyssey. And now, having driven both, I can safely say that getting anything but minivans is not intelligent, even if you don't have kids.

MacOS was the last thing that held me back in the Apple ecosystem, and I'm so glad this period is over. I could keep spending $5500 every few years on a new MacBook, but the most recent Linux on laptop experience has freed me from this slavery. It's nice to keep making a 3-trillion company richer, but from now on, you'll have to do this without me.

Golden Borodutch

💡 Look at the tools you use daily: is your performance negatively affected by them? Do you have too many notifications that grab you from the flow state and plummet productivity? Steve Jobs famously never let his kids use iPads, and Zuck doesn't use Facebook (or any Meta product) the way we use it. Why should you be led rather than doing what the leaders do?

This paradigm extends further towards the tool stack that you use. Are you a slave of an ecosystem, paying increasingly more money to trillion-dollar corporations for no benefit whatsoever? Are you sure you need all of these bells and whistles (that also track you) and that you can't get them anywhere else? Well, have you tried? I'm sure I have.

I've switched from iPhones to Androids around 2014. Since then, I've been buying flagship iPhones annually to test them out again (see if they've improved) — yet 2-4 weeks later, I always return them for various reasons. Mostly, I experience subpar performance and micro-freezes when using iOS. Things I can do quickly on Android don't work fast enough on iOS. For example, try opening an Android app with 2x the speed of animations and then the same app on iOS that doesn't have an animation speed-up setting. Jerry perfectly summed up my experience in this video.

Recently, I switched from MacOS to Linux. Since Apple introduced M processors, I thought it was stupid to buy any other laptop. Boy, I was wrong. It turned out that even if MacBooks on M3 are mighty (and Intel with AMD are quickly catching up), I didn't need that type of performance at all. Hence, paying a premium for something I didn't need is like driving a 911 with three kids — parents can attest to how stupid this is. Even though I can afford a full-blown 911, I opt for a Honda Odyssey. And now, having driven both, I can safely say that getting anything but minivans is not intelligent, even if you don't have kids.

MacOS was the last thing that held me back in the Apple ecosystem, and I'm so glad this period is over. I could keep spending $5500 every few years on a new MacBook, but the most recent Linux on laptop experience has freed me from this slavery. It's nice to keep making a 3-trillion company richer, but from now on, you'll have to do this without me.

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