A progress report on my "Migrate from MacBook to Net
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Some people actually asked me: "Hold on, why won't you just use Debian, if everything works on it?"
I'm migrating from MacOS 14, the latest MacOS without AI. It is still receiving updates, and it probably will be fine/safe to use for another year. If the push comes to shove, I can update to MacOS 15 and get one extra year of support of software that is generally pre-genAI.
Debian Bookworm, the latest pre-major-genAI release, will get its last major update in June 2026, and will stop receiving LTS in June 2028.
In other words, if my reason for this move is "according to who there is no level of exposure to genai", then swapping from MacOS to Debian doesn't actually give me more time before the support for the last "safe-ish" version is dropped.
So, might as well bite the bullet now and go to BSDs. And it is increasingly looking like I might be able to get away with it without losing anything important to me in terms of computer functionality.
@nina_kali_nina I'm in a similar situation, I will not upgrade my Macbooks beyond macOS 15. The direction most Linux distributions take is also disgusting.
NetBSD is quite minimalistic, but one of the options I consider along with Haiku. I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 5 here (built in 2017, i7-7500 CPU, saved from recycling) and a T14 Gen 6 (new, AMD Ryzen Pro 350). Haiku runs nicely on the X1, but lacks power management support. I still need to check my OS options for the T14...
