The first 3 days on Linux were brutal!

Habits are really hard to break and computing habits for most people are very deeply ingrained. When I first switched to Linux, I literally had 20 years of muscle memory, of expectations, of aesthetic tuning, of developing an eye for like the Mac way of doing things. And I can now tell you from very personal experience, very recent experience, holy [ __ ] was that frustrating. I mean, I kept doing the wrong hotkeys. I kept breaking things. I didn't like how something looked. I didn't like how something worked. I was just I was used to a certain way of doing things, right? And it only happened 18 months ago. So, it's really fresh in my memory just how annoyed I was for the first 3 days to the point where I was questioning whether this whole thing was going to happen at all. The first three days were actually kind of brutal. I mean, I don't want to diminish it by the comparison here, but there's a little bit of like almost detox, like 20 years of Mac addictions detoxing out of my goddamn veins. And I'm just like getting the shakes of like, why doesn't this work exactly like everything I've been using for 20 years? And I pushed through. And after the first three days, like the cold turkey subsided. And it like no wonder felt like actively painful. But still the first week was a little bit frustrating, right? And then by the end of the second week I was like, "What was the big deal? What was the big deal? This is this is good." No, no, no. This is great.

So you think you might want to try Omarchy? Awesome! Can't wait for you to give it a go. But also! It's going to be hard to unwind your muscle memory from years on Windows or macOS. Don't be surprised if it makes your brain hurt for a few days before it finally clicks 😄 https://omarchy.org