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Once you're there, you may as well run Linux on your old Apple laptop. Sometimes I seriously suspect the only things keeping me from doing that are SublimeText

Once you're there, you may as well run Linux on your old Apple laptop. Sometimes I seriously suspect the only things keeping me from doing that are SublimeText and Pixelmator. I have not yet gotten annoyed enough with macOS to relearn all my finger macros that've been driving Sublime for a decade and getting up to speed with a different text editor, or to have leaned how to drive Gimp well enough to be reasonably able toi use it to replace Pixelmator in a productive fashion. Oh, and _maybe_ OmniGraffle, but I'm not sure I've even opened that yet this year.

macNchz 4y ago
Sublime has a Linux build which works perfectly! I switched from MacOS to Ubuntu as a daily driver two years ago. Keyboard shortcuts generally were the biggest annoyance, however I can’t speak to Sublime shortcuts specifically, as I have all my editors set to use Emacs style bindings.
- bigiain 4y ago
  Ooooh, thanks. I am 100% going to check that out. (Hope there's a build that'll run on my Pinebook...)
  - mfashby 4y ago
    I use it on mine regularly :)
Klonoar 4y ago
>Once you're there, you may as well run Linux on your old Apple laptop. I mean, frankly... no. I live in the terminal on my Mac, but I still need a browser to deal with everything else. The battery life on a MacBook alone will kick the everloving hell out of most non-Apple laptops currently. Scrolling is always smooth, and I don't even hear a fan these days with the M1. Living in the terminal on macOS affords you relative consistency; while yes, Apple has changed things in releases (or held back due to licensing stuff), it all mostly works as expected and will generally not break between OS releases. That's the important bit here.