It was a day or two of work but in the end, I'm happy to say that I haven't felt the urge to open up my Mac since I finished, despite it being my happy home for the last half-decade or more. Here's a guide on what I ended up doing to port over the functionality I missed from the Mac and additional improvements made. Don't get me wrong, I do quite enjoy recompiling kernels and tweaking my workflow - and Linux gives you the most control there - but I still do want a machine I can feel at home in, and not a permanent work-in-progress. I've had to do quite a bit to get my system to a point where I can reliably and comfortably work on my computer, without spending too much time working on my computer. The Linux ecosystem is a lot better than it was when I left five years ago, but it still has a ways to go. I might do a second part on why I left and what the other side offered, along with the choices encountered and an evaluation of the options, but I'll cut it short here by mentioning my final choice: Ubuntu 20.04 running on an Non-Developer Edition. An iPad with a keyboard running on an ARM chip might honestly be a great computer for the vast majority of users, but I don't see my requirements fitting into that box - at least for the next five years. With the recent ARM-transition and Big Sur, it was clear to me that Apple and the Macbook were moving in a direction that I couldn't join them in, and I refuse to be dragged to along. Apple seems intent on cutting away the long tail of power-users, be it audio professionals, video editors or developers. With a lack of hardware updates, buggy keyboards that never get fixed, removed SD card slots and useless touchbars, the Macbook ecosystem has been languishing for a while.
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