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Woah. Still on Sequoia with no intention to upgrade, but maybe the next laptop runs Linux.

I'm on Sequoia. Check out ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform

It might depend on your needs and priorities, GhostBSD is a great option for people who like something more like Mac.

It's just a tuned FreeBSD distro using Mate.

What similarities do you find between macOS and GhostBSD? The Mate desktop by itself isn't super mac-like.

I also see it defaults to the growing pile of bugs known as XLibre.

The similarity is predominantly between the userland. (The Freebsd kernel and XNU is mostly historical as far as I know)

A typical Linux user will be used to GNU conventions and probably have a lot of annoyances.

GhostBSD is simply a beginner friendly distro of FreeBSD.

In one line both MacOS users and BSD broadly will squirm at the likes of things like `ls src/ -la`

But honestly, I was interdicting in the idea that Linux is the only alternative really.