The new shiny in Linux shines very bright, and restraint seems to be the core challenge required to have a stable, outcome focused computing experience with Linux. It seems so easy to get lost trying to distro hop constantly, or try a new terminal for marginal benefits, etc. Linux is giving me that Mac feeling for the first time in a long time, although the major challenge here appears to be restraining oneself. I did switch to Linux for my personal computing a few months ago, and I have hopes that this may allow me to do so, once I really set something up once I get to my Mar-Apr spring cleaning. That was almost a decade+ of highly stable, highly effective, and almost cutting edge of computing that I haven't even come close to replicating in the almost decade since, despite earning real money. I'd save up a few hundred $s, and then upgrade the software and hardware at around the same time, so I also added additional RAM and moved the HDD to the CD-RW and inserted an SSD instead of the HDD (I am 100% sure I made these changes for my macbook, but I'm not sure if I made them, or if they were even possible, for the iBook I owned before). This provided me with excellent stability and a very reasonable price.

That meant shelling out $129 after about 3 years (2 year lifecycles, and I think I bought my first mac almost a year into the then OS lifecycle). I paid for alternate OS X versions (and then jumped on the snow leopard wagon immediately due to the $29? price).

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