You got most of the direct questions answered so this is just my 2 cents: I strongly recommend you do a back up of your important files on a separate physical medium first as iCloud is going to be a bit of a barrier on Linux. Then lengthen your timeline of getting away from Mac purely to facilitate learning. Look into something like Ubuntu (Fedora and OpenSUSE aren’t the best choice for beginners) as your starting distro to learn about Linux while keeping Mac around in some capacity to do the things you haven’t migrated over yet. Elementary OS might be an option to look at for that Mac feel but it’s purely surface level.

Then phase out Mac overtime as you become more comfortable with how Linux works with what your use case is. Eventually you’ll determine what might be an even better distro for your use case and may switch into something that serves you better. You won’t find a perfect 1 to 1 alternative that will meet all your needs exactly as you want them met out of the box. So a period of learning is recommended to figure out how you’d like things to work and how to go about it.

“We’re in”

That’s the rational, non-jokey answer probably.

MBAs do like to think they know everything just because they played the BSG in their senior year.

Hi. Bazzite user here and I insist on proper representation. Please add it to the dogshit tier. Thanks.

OP included it but since it runs in ram, it got wiped from the list after system restart.

My proposed image for the tier:

At the very least a point to pivot back in the right direction. Like with win 8/8.1 to Win 10.

MacOS does have a reason to exist. It helps people get rid of those pesky thousands of dollars over-bloating their bank account every 5 years when they are told their Mac is obsolete.

Yeah ever since that incident at Jurassic Park, UNIX has been in decline.

Vibecode will do that to you.

TempleOS?

Felt like reading a bad Mr. Robot fanfic episode.

Honestly me when I see some pics of people’s Linux rices.

What is this “sex” term I keep seeing? Is that like a new DE or something?

You are harboring a FreeBSD installation in your home somewhere, aren’t you?

This guy Linuxes

I get a hit of dopamine just doing mundane tasks on Linux.

I have a win 11 partition on its own drive as well for some stuff that I still need to use while I figure out how to get it running on Linux. I think it’s funny how windows forgets how to tell time and run peripheral devices because I was booted into Linux previously. Like what are you doing, windows?