Thank you for the article. Here are some notes on it:

1) Linux has disk encryption too :)

2) Telegram is another save text app. They even have desktop clients for all platforms (incl. Linux)

3) To have really secure connections you fail to mention to use a VPN service. In this day and age, you should use a VPN always. Even on your phone.

Yeah, you’re definitely not the only one. Performance has been an issue since the very beginning.

Yes, Vagrant in that matter Docker makes it easy to set things up. I just didn’t write about it yet :)

Hi there,

Great to hear that you want to give Linux a go.

It sounds like, you are rather new to Linux. May I suggest to maybe test everything and run Linux in a virtual machine? Like this you are not messing with your current system and can easily try everything to your hearts content.

:)

My employee is using ArchLinux. I myself use Ubuntu.

It’s not so much that I can’t/couldn’t use those tools on the Mac. It’s about moving by to Linux and seeing that all tools are there :)

As I promised to write more about my experience with Linux as my replacement for a Mac, here is my experience with developing web apps on Linux.

It’s almost ridiculous how easy web development on Linux is. All the tools are a simple “apt install” command away. If not, most vendors outline how to add their repository and then issue an “apt install” command.

Thus, installing MongoDB, Elasticsearch and MySQL takes you literally a few minutes. Same applies to

Hi Graham,

I was/am in the exactly same boat as you. The reason why I switched to Ubuntu and open source full time is about values and principles.

I believe that if it is all about values and principles, it’s also worth to invest time and energy into your values and principles.

Looking at all the pro and cons, I found that that latest Thinkpad T460s hits the sweet spot. i7, 20GB ram (awesome for virtual machines) and

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You are far from alone :) Yeah, intrigued by Antergos as well, however as Ubuntu LTS is on all our servers, I wanted to run something that resembles this most closely.

On the other hand, I can just run Docker and have an Ubuntu install…. How wonderful can Linux be :)