I bought a new computer.
It's a Mac.
Mac is the worst option for a main workstation except for Windows (obviously) and Linux. Leaving me with....Mac.
I use Linux all day every day but always CLI on...
not every linux is the same.
I can highly recommend "Linux Mint" - mostly the XFCE version, but i think others work just as well.
Over the last decade I've used it on so many different laptops i have owned and it always installs flawlessly with everything working - never had to fiddle with a wifi driver, graphics driver, webcam or microphone driver or anything at all - it just works.
I have tried many distributions over the years (gentoo, arch, ubuntu, suse, manjaro, ...and a few others) and while there might be others that will work as flawlessly as linux mint, none of the others i tried did.
The issue with "Mac" is, that while apple stuff works and is nice to use, you are opting into a stack that is just as opaque and closed and in many ways dubious as the legacy monetary system.
Bitcoin draws its power from open source just as linux does and Linux Mint shows that this doesn't mean that things have to be brittle.
just my 2 cents
I can highly recommend "Linux Mint" - mostly the XFCE version, but i think others work just as well.
Over the last decade I've used it on so many different laptops i have owned and it always installs flawlessly with everything working - never had to fiddle with a wifi driver, graphics driver, webcam or microphone driver or anything at all - it just works.
I have tried many distributions over the years (gentoo, arch, ubuntu, suse, manjaro, ...and a few others) and while there might be others that will work as flawlessly as linux mint, none of the others i tried did.
The issue with "Mac" is, that while apple stuff works and is nice to use, you are opting into a stack that is just as opaque and closed and in many ways dubious as the legacy monetary system.
Bitcoin draws its power from open source just as linux does and Linux Mint shows that this doesn't mean that things have to be brittle.
just my 2 cents