I hear you, I'm in the same position. I started by turning off iCloud, running Ubuntu in Parallels. Then last night I got Ubuntu dual booting on my MBP! Once y

I hear you, I'm in the same position. I started by turning off iCloud, running Ubuntu in Parallels. Then last night I got Ubuntu dual booting on my MBP! Once you disconnect from iCloud, or have one non-Apple device, the whole ecosystem benefit starts to unravel.