Chris WiegmanI’ve made a lot of progress on making my Linux laptop functional as a daily driver this week. While I realize that doing so might seem strange to many, it is quite an adventure for me where almost all my data and services lately are the default Apple apps and services, mostly because I share so many of them with family.
For email I’ve now got a Fastmail account. For files I have a Nextcloud instance hosted on Hetzner. I’ve added Spotify (for now) for music, Todoist for my todo list, Pocket for read later and a few others.
I’m not there yet, but this might just wind up working in the end and I’m excited about that.
Ideally I’d like to move away from more services in general but I just can’t do that for everything. Music, for example, is one of them. I listen to music (currently Apple Music) for 8-10 hours every day. There aren’t a lot of cross-platform services that can replace that. Todoist is another. While it works well for me I would rather get something that works well within Nextcloud. To date every solution I’ve tried, however, falls very short. Even Hetzner isn’t really ideal to me. I don’t know if it will eventually be cut as I’m still in the US.
In the end my current goal, however, is to get away from Apple. On that I’m well on the way. Once I get that far my hope is that it will be easier to replace individual services in isolation. We’ll see how it goes.