Make real backups. Ideally make two or more

• a full disk backup with SuperSuper
• A Time Machine Backup on an external drive

The likelihood of making your machine unusable for a while is non negligible.

Mac

If you want to dual boot with macOS, do some research. Boot loaders and EFI can be tricky.

Holding alt after pressing the power button gives you the option to choose the drive to boot from. Holding cmd + R after pressing the power button allows booting into recovery mode. It allows you to partition and format your internal drive and reinstall macOS.

You can install a newer version of macOS than is officially supported using OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

FOSS principles

Intel Macs often have Broadcom WiFi chips, that need proprietary software to work. As a noob, you should got with a distro that makes it easy to install these or does it automatically for you.

You likely also want to play some video files, so you will need nonfree stuff.

Distro hopping

Install to an external drive or Virtual Machine. You can do that on your existing macOS with VirtualBox for example.

similar to Windows, macOS, customizable

Even the desktop environments, who claim to be macOS like (Endeavour, GNOME), have at best a superficial similarity. Don’t expect a macOS replacement. All desktop environments are different from macOS.

beginner distro

Fedora and SuSE are not beginner friendly. Lots of Linux distros use the same marketing terms of easy to use, powerful, efficient, etc.

Start with Ubuntu or something based on Ubuntu like Mint.

Cinnamon, KDE, and Gnome are all good desktop environments for beginners.

Google search results have become so much worse. Tons of AI slop and other trash is in the top results for lots of searches.

Look at a terminal command and try to understand what it does. You can do this by checking out the commands it’s made of and learning about them.

There are differences with hardware support. For example my keyboard backlight isn’t supported in all distros equally. From what I know so far, I suspect this has to do with kernel version and desktop environment.

Getting hardware to work that needs proprietary firmware, for example Broadcom wifi and Bluetooth, can involve several steps like adding a new repository, installing packages, and running a program, or two clicks in the UI.

The last game I played started with one party member‘s birthday party. Everyone gave a little speech reminiscing about past experiences they had together.

The adventure began, when the party was interrupted by the bad guys.

I love playing in a group where the characters have a common backstory. It enables so many opportunities for role playing and storytelling. A married couple with in-laws or other relatives, family connections have great dynamics. A group of former slaves, who bought their freedom. A troupe of artists on tour. Delegation of athletes. All from the same village. Fans of the same football team.

VMs don’t show you if your hardware is well supported.

The better name would be Linux/systemd/Wayland/KDE.

If you take a loan with your first real estate as collateral, you might lose it if you aren’t able to pay the loan. So in the worst case you lose the old and the new property, if you run into cash flow problems.

Taking out a loan to buy a second property can pay for itself, if you do it right and aren’t unlucky. Live in your old house, take out a loan to buy a second house. Rent out the second property and pay the mortgage with that income.

Owning two properties means you have administrative costs and time you need to put in.

Install the distro your Linux using friends use.

I was surprised to see this be that little.

iCloud+ gives me 50 GB for 0,99 € per month, including my own email domain, cloud storage, calendar, unlimited alias addresses.

Downvote should not be a disagreement button.

Churn is an issue you mentioned.

I was specifically thinking about men who have sex with men. Grindr and similar platforms are very successful. Most of it is about casual sex between promiscuous men. They are also a great target group otherwise. Travel between gay metropolises is common as. Pride tourism is big.

Local network effect is enough, even when it’s restricted to a specific demographic or subculture. Once a dating platform grabs a hold in a location and demographic, it can extend from there.

Of course to keep a project like this running, you need a way to pay for hosting and development.

The slight difference in looks isn’t what’s stopping people.

Gnome 3 seems to be designed for touch screens, but it rarely is used with one.

The distro matters because some have better defaults for one DE over another.

The downside of KDE is the millions of options and features. It can get in the way and makes it a little harder to learn.

That said. KDE is pretty great and currently my favorite.

The idea is pretty old and there have been several prototypes launched and tried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_space_habitat

It supports their ideas.