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Steve Jobs review: 'manically entertaining'
Watch this movie, it's great.

You know those guys? The guys that follow the tech world and its glamorous news cycles feverishly and watch a hundred different reviews of a product when it gets launched.

They're the real tech geeks of our world. These people are the ones who everyone consults when they're considering a tech upgrade. They know the specs of every product released in the last 5 years. They know the pros, the cons, and they're the tech superheroes we flock to when we have any doubt regarding our smartphones with features we barely know about.

Every friend group has a guy like that. 
I'm not that guy.

So as I sit here, late into the night, rewatching Steve Jobs (2015) [Great movie btw], thinking about the various changes in my perception of the tech world, I say to myself, Huh, this would make a half-interesting blog post.

Flashforward to three weeks later:

Yeah. I procrastinated writing this blog post for three weeks.

So, I have no idea where to start.

Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure I had some reason to start writing this blog post three weeks ago, but now I'm not so sure what it was anymore. 

Rather than subjecting myself to the pain of trying to figure out my initial plan for this blog post, I'm going to instead talk about what I've been dying to blog about. Linux.

Yes it has begun. I've become one of those annoying computer hobbyists that infintely tweak and configure and switch operating systems on the flip of a coin and won't shut up about how much Linux feels better than Windows or MacOS. tbh, it actually is better than Windows. I've haven't used MacOS yet.

I switched to Linux on the flip of a coin about two months ago. People who might know me in real life know that I'm not the most thoughful person when it comes to making decisions like this. Fuelled by the adrenaline and excitement that comes with the initial intrigue, I embarked on my journey to see why this operating system is so loved by this small loyal user group.

So, I'm announcing a new series on my blog, Learning Linux. I wanted to do the alliteration thing again, but you can't strike gold twice ( I think that's how the saying goes or something).

I'll be publishing a few more posts today detailing on my experiences with Linux in these two months.


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