Journey to Linux (updated)

Updated: 2025-08-14

Over the last couple of months, I embarked on a journey to completely move my computer life over to Linux. 🤓

I was rooted knee-deep in the "Apple ecosystem" for more than 20 years and actually was pretty happy with my setup at that time:

• 2018 i9 6-Core MacBook Pro
  • Update: In the meantime I sold my MacBook Pro and replaced it with an absolutely amazing little laptop (Lenovo's P14s AMD 1st generation) that I exclusively use to run Manjaro these days.
• 2019 Xeon W 12-Core Mac Pro
  • Update: I kept the Mac Pro for now more or less exclusively to be able to access my macOS only audio plugins (see below) should I have the need to access/use them (what an overkill). 😜 At the moment I am pretty happy with what I have on Linux tough.
  • Update 2: I am so confident with Linux in everyday life and do more and more exclusively with Open Source software that I have also sold the Mac Pro in the meantime.