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+title: I like linux more
+description: I like linux...
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+date: 2024-04-11
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+    description: first iteration
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+  - "#blog"
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+
+This may not come as a surprise to anyone. But I feel the need to state this as
+a person probably spending 8 hours a day on a Mac. Linux is superior for my
+profession; software engineering.
+
+I can imagine you rolling your eyes right now, yet another nerd screaming into
+the void that their niche choice that none understand somehow is better than a
+behemoth of engineering that is MacOS.
+
+First of all Linux is built for and by software engineers. It definitely has its
+own idiosyncrasies but for me most of the choices made by my distribution,
+(fancy name for a curated experience on top of the `linux` kernel).
+
+A distribution on linux, often abbreviated as distro, is a set of software which
+includes the linux kernel in their delivery. Like installing Windows, MacOS etc.
+You're probably used to just those choices, but on linux it is different. We
+call it linux, but you won't find a linux distribution. Instead you will find
+flavours of linux that include linux as their base os. I.e. Ubuntu, Debian,
+Arch, etc. Each are as different as windows vs macos. At least from a users
+perspective. So it can be confusing which is the right one for you.
+
+Linux unlike the other OS' actually allows you to choose what you prefer, each
+distribution is built by people which range from you - yourself (linux from
+scratch etc.) to fedora (redhat, owned by ibm), or ubuntu by canonical. These
+flavors are vastly different in their user experience, so much so that for a lay
+person, it without knowing that linux is the base kernel that all of it is built
+on, you wouldn't even know they share the same DNA.
+
+The linux desktop, which I am writing about in this article, is different than
+the linux server that most developers are familiar with. Not in the basics, but
+the user experience, simply, the linux desktop with all its flavors simply has a
+lot fewer eyes on it than the linux server as the industry standard for servers
+operating systems.
+
+Eyes on software, and hands on keyboard is one of the most important metrics in
+software engineering. Simply a software that is more important to more people is
+more mature and refined. (often, Jira phew.)
+
+This has already drawn on long enough, but in my experience, unlike MacOS; Linux
+actually allows me to be productive in the way I choose - professionally. As a
+software engineer, I am by nature or nuture, a poweruser. I usually switch work
+between a browser and an editor which I use to edit the programs I write.
+
+Often, I like to focus on a single thing at once, so I have my editor on one
+screen, and a browser, communication app, planning board on the other. A need
+then emerges that I quickly need to switch between these.
+
+MacOS does allow setting keybinds to switch between these. However, there is no
+keybind out of the box to send a program to another screen. And lets say I
+really need that feature - which I do, don't ask.
+
+I basically have to resort to rooting my device (rooting is a fancy term for
+getting access to the dirty bits of the OS. Normally you don't want to touch
+this as it really is like opening up pandoras box, you don't know what is gonna
+happen). Should I do that on a company device, probably not.
+
+The problem here is that I have to be satisfied with what Apple or Microsoft for
+that matter provides for me, if I don't like it, I basically have to violate
+every security best practice to simply set an uncommon keybind. While on Linux I
+can just choose to change my configuration, or desktop to include that piece of
+functionality.
+
+Linux actually allows me to control my device how I prefer, I don't ask for
+anything complicated, I just want to open a program on another screen, is that
+really so serious, I can do that using my mouse, why can't I do that using a
+keybind?
+
+I hate using my mouse