My first computer was a 2005 iBook. I used to be a huge apple fan but after a bad experience with a 2012 rMBP I started looking at other options. I bought a De

My first computer was a 2005 iBook. I used to be a huge apple fan but after a bad experience with a 2012 rMBP I started looking at other options. I bought a Dell precision laptop at the end of 2016 and installed ubuntu. This wasn't the first Linux machine for me but it was the first I really worked at. At around the same time I set myself the goal of reducing any and all dependencies on gui apps other than a browser. I quit dayone, various database guis, etc in this period. This was key, I also got better at many cli tools in the process. I spent a considerable amount of time building a dotfile config that was cross platform / worked with my work mac and other apple computers. This was really painful, it was never 100% consistent but it did all me to prove to myself that it was possible to productively use Linux - something I'd always been skeptical of before, for whatever reason. I then took on a massive downsizing effort and sold all of my computers, this was also a lot of work. Disassembling custom PC's and selling laptops on eBay took longer than expected. I was then left with only my work computer. Down from 6 laptops/desktops. My work laptop was a max spec first gen touchbar 13" at the time. I then got a new job, when asking for my new laptop I bit the bullet and asked for the new Dell XPS 13. So far I'm getting on fine, native containers is the biggest benefit I've seen personally. I miss photoshop a bit as I haven't invested the effort to run it properly on Linux via wine etc.