Some time ago, in my post “From Mistrel to Heretic”,1 I wrote about my journey to digital independence. I received several questions about my tech stack afterwards. A fair question I’m happy and willing to answer: I rely on free solutions with GNU/Linux Debian2 as foundation. Stable3 runs on servers and critical systems, while unstable or “sid” powers my daily drivers. For me, the ideal balance between robustness and up-to-date software. Read more

This picture shows my home office in the year 2007. At the bottom left, you can see my last productive bare-metal Microsoft installation. A WinXP, Office 2003 and Visual Studio .NET installation. In the middle above and below you can find my primary system of choice back in those days, an openSUSE Linux. At least till the release of the iPhone a year later in 2008. This was the initial spark for switching to macOS and iOS. Yes, I was a switcher! Read more