Ubuntu - my new home

I have been using Ubuntu as my default desktop. I am quite comfortable with Linux, Windows, and MacOS. To get a general idea of what machine learning is, I assembled a PC with a graphics card - RTX 4090 and Intel i9-1400k CPU. This system is a beast, and I am loving it so far.

Instead of spending money on a Windows license, I thought I would make Ubuntu my home. It’s not like I am new to Linux. I started my career in computers because of Linux. My first distribution was Knoppix live CD, and I have been a Debian user ever since. I did try more than 40+ distros, but I can’t get rid of my first love. All my servers run Debian. It’s one of the communities and distributions to which I owe my career. You may wonder why Ubuntu now.

I am at a stage in my life where my priorities have changed. These days, I hardly find time to muck around with distributions and desktops/laptops. So to keep it simple, my next go-to is Ubuntu. This is mostly to avoid driver issues. I hate snap, but I still trust snap in some aspects. Some of my GNOME apps are from Flatpak. I always stick to deb packages from the distribution because of stability issues.

I am limiting myself to not using single OS software to keep my hopping easier. I love iTerm and Postico from Mac. They are well-polished and stable. On Linux systems, I am using Tilix. I am still in search of a decent and stable PostgreSQL GUI client.

The list goes like this:

Tilix
Obsidian
VSCode
Thunderbird
Firefox
Sublime Text
Sublime Merge
Beekeeper Studio (Not convinced yet)
Calibre
Safe Eyes
KeePassXC
Nextcloud client (I run my own server)

I might have missed a few, but overall, these are some applications that I use on a day-to-day basis.