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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. alibre

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. 5 minutes For the better part of a