I've been about as much of an Apple/Mac fanboy as it gets for so many years—and even now I love my iPad Pro tremendously. But I've gotten increasingly upset—ir

I've been about as much of an Apple/Mac fanboy as it gets for so many years—and even now I love my iPad Pro tremendously. But I've gotten increasingly upset—irate even—about Apple's terrible missteps with the App Store, as well as the completely unnecessary lockdowns in their i-* platforms for power users. (I'd be more than happy to press a series of 10 giant red scary buttons to unlock my iPad Pro's true "pro-ness" and open terminals, long-running background processes, VMs, and a whole lot more…but alas, it's just not possible.) I've been experimenting a lot lately with GNOME in a VM on my M1 Mac mini, and I'm extremely impressed with how far Linux UI has come. Since most of the software I use on a daily basis is all web-based (and if not it's CLI-based), there's not much I actually need a macOS desktop for rather than a Linux one. All that to say: my mid-2010s self would be shocked to hear these words come out of my mouth: my next computer will be a Linux PC.