I work as a teacher helping adults become developers. I do this at a few different schools as a consultant periodically during the work year. This year, I will have a lot of classes, and some of them will run in parallel, making my life quite busy.

My MacBook Pro has now passed the five-year mark, and its economic lifetime has ended. It still works well, but I worry about the stress and impact it would have on my life if it broke during one of the busy periods. I decided to upgrade preemptively but still keep the computer as a backup if something happens.

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about me trying out Debian on one of my laptops to figure out if it was something for me. I have been using Linux since the 1990ies and have at time used it as my main OS. The last couple of years I have been living mainly on MacOS but also spent some time with Windows (client requirements) and only used Linux on the server side. This experiment was to see how easy or hard it was going to be to live as much as possible with Linux on the desktop. My conclusion is:

I am spending most of the days in front of the computer. Writing emails, code and the odd blog post. I came to realize that I don’t spend any effort in having a good writing experience. So lately I decided that I should treat my self and get hold of a great keyboard. This turned out to be a challenging task to complete, there is so much to choose from. There are tons of different makes and models, colors and switches. Not easy at all!