For the better part of a decade, I was a creature of habit. My desktop was a shrine to the two titans of the industry. You know the names. The ones with the ribbon interfaces that change every three years. The ones with the subscription fees that arrive like clockwork, draining the corporate account whether you open the software or not. The ones that require a workstation that sounds like a jet engine taking off just to render a fillet.
The fatigue of bloatware. The fatigue of "generative AI" assistants trying to guess my design intent. The fatigue of watching my laptop fan spin up to 6000 RPM just to open a sketch of a bracket. alibre
Draw a bracket. Make a drawing. Sleep well knowing your subscription fee just went to a company that actually cares about parametric modeling, not your user data. For the better part of a decade, I was a creature of habit