Laptop History

The first laptop I personally owned was an Apple 12" iBook G3 (Snow) running an OS X 10.0 in 2001. While I got serious about PCs w/ a 386 running MS-DOS 5.0/Win 3.1 and was playing around with Linux with early Slackware and <1.0 Red Hat, I ended up using Macs as my primary laptops until 2015 for work and at home, when I finally made serious effort to switch to Linux on my laptops.

I've used dozens of ThinkPads, Chromebooks, netbooks, hackintoshes, gaming laptops, tablets, and even custom-built luggable systems for portable computing over the years, and I average about a laptop upgrade every year or two in search of better portable computing.

For those that want a little more color, about 6 months in, I wrote an article 2015, The Year of Linux on My Laptop about it.

Colophon

For my editing, I started with Marktext v0.17.1 (marktext-bin) however, sadly, it was a bit too buggy for my taste, and throughout its use several chunks of text would disappear on paste/while editing, and one time it ate my entire document (only a few minutes of editing, but still a pain). The auto-save couldn't be used since it would reset my cursor position.

I have switched to Abricotine (abricotine-bin) v1.1.4 which is a little less slick (no fancy insertions, automatic tables, or link metadata), but so far has been stable.

It's similar in editing style to Obsidian, which I might end up switching to for its plugins: obsidian-git, obsidian-auto-link-title, etc.

I ported my 2020 MECHREVO Code 01 PF5NU1G review from Notion via its Markdown export (with images).

I ported my Arch Linux Install Guide from Dropbox Paper via its Markdown export.