My love affair with the AUR is well documented. It’s so bad I can’t use anything that’s not Arch-based on my main computer. Without the AUR, I just feel lost and without all of my lovely programs. (I’m really not without them, of course. The repos on Debian/Ubuntu/MX are great for the most part) Even with that love affair still going strong, I find myself enjoying Flatpaks more and more. Some of this is some recent problems with building some apps from the AUR.

In an effort to start to move around more and become more healthy, I decided that I would do the nerd thing and buy a gadget to keep track of health and fitness metrics. Because I switched to the iPhone - and from everything I read, Android watches suck - I decided I would pick up an Apple Watch. I’ve been using this thing now for a week, and I thought I’d write about my experiences so far.

A few months ago, I talked about how I switched to iOS after having used Android for almost 3 years. As I said then, that switch was one that I usually do every 3 years or so, if only to see what the other main platform has come up with. For the last few months, I’ve been using an iPhone 11 Pro Max, and to be honest, I love the hardware but I can’t stand iOS.

I’m a nerd. Kind of obvious, of course, but there is no place where my nerd-dom shines more as when I start talking about file managers. It’s ridiculous, really. I have spend dozens of hours over the last two years looking for the ‘perfect’ file manager. Thunar didn’t have dual pane mode, so I switched to Nemo, which had that feature. Nemo didn’t remember close state, so I switched to Dolphin.