Matisyahu's Blog

First day of my weekend – walked down to my local Dutch bakery and cafe to order an eggs bene and a bowl of caffè mocha for a late brunch (well, technically it was around 3pm between lunch and dinner) – enjoying the good weather after having a week of wild rain and wind. I walked back from the bakery and cafe so it totals around 3.2km but I’ll still go for a walk tonight – I like getting some fresh air which is good psychologically, getting the happy hormones working and feeling a lot better afterwards.

I’m still looking at getting some time off from 9 June 2025 so I can get some rest along with following WWDC 2025 keynotes and sessions. The other development I am watching is Android 16 which has been split between the official release then a second update coming towards the end of the year. The other development towards the end of the year will be Windows 11 25H2 and Fedora 43 so there are many developments that are going to take place. As I remind people, use the best technology to do the job – you don’t owe any business loyalty, either they deliver a good or service that makes your life easier or they don’t.

Fedora 43 will be a big change as it’ll be Wayland only with X11 something you have to opt in if you want it rather than including it as part of the base installation. As I’ve said in the past, if I were to ever move off macOS it would be to a PC running Linux (assuming Windows 11 doesn’t get its act together). I’d get a laptop with an Intel GPU but in terms of a desktop I would be tempted to build my own computer with either an AMD or Intel GPU which allows me to avoid the whole NVIDIA driver fiasco because NVIDIA choose to be anti-social and not work with Linux developers. Either include the drivers with the Linux kernel so that hardware is supported out of the box or don’t waste my time with promises but little in the way of delivery. If you want to keep up with what is happening in the world of Linux and open source the news source I like to follow is Phoronix (link).