It’s without a doubt that Apple has a great eye for aesthetics. When you migrate from the Apple ecosystem to another platform, the first thing you notice is the font. Windows and Linux fonts are beautiful in their own ways, but if you are as picky as I am about certain fonts in your browser and shell, there is a way to handle this on Linux.

For the file manager, terminal, and editor, it’s not hard to change the font. If you are using GNOME or MATE, gnome-tweaks is a great application for choosing specific fonts for the interface and documents. I recommend downloading your favorite fonts to the ~/.fonts folder and running fc-cache -fv to let the system know about the new fonts. GNOME Tweaks is a fantastic tool for that. My go-to option, which is close to the ‘Helvetica’ font, is ‘Inter var’.

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.