it's a little less work to despyware osx (but not trivial) than it is to install linux on a recent macbook and work around the weird drivers needed and odd bootloader config, and the result is slightly more polished, so i think i'm'a stick with macos for the time being, although literally 100% of the apple services are now entirely disabled. it doesn't even speak to apple for ntp now. wifi breaks if i block the captive portal detector URL though.