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Ok, long story short: I'm going back to macOS on this Late 2012 MacBookAir.

I love #Enlightenment (especially #E26 with #EFL 1.27.0) but I am not going through the hassle of all that apt/dpkg-crap again on a desktop machine. It is enough if I have to do that on my servers.

I just started "Restore from Internet" on the MacBookAir.

And I dunno, I really have to defend Apple here: I only had to restart the laptop and hold down CMD-r during restart. It then started an EFI-ROM-boot, which offered a way of joining my WiFi.

Then, it connected to an Apple-Server to download a restoration-preparation disk image, mounted and booted from that. After that I could start the Disk Utility to prepare the disk and now ... well, now it is downloading a full macOS disk image from one of Apple's servers and will then install it.

Mind you, it found OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) for download onto this laptop, which means, I need to do many upgrades afterwards to get it to 10.15.7 (macOS Catalina), but hey:

1. This is a 12-year old laptop
2. There **IS** still an Apple-Server where it can download a macOS
3. It is still supported with some security updates
4. It just friggin' works!

Yes, it will take hours and hours, but it works... And I'm sure I can still find download a development-environment for it and get brew installed.

Well, yeah, no! I think this was the last time I tried a Linux on desktop.

Until #FreeBSD runs on one of my old Apple MacBook (Air), I won't be deleting macOS from it anymore.

(I actually even have a MacBookPro or so, which can still run 32-Bit macOS-Software, but I don't really use that at all, so I might as well try installing FreeBSD on that one because ... it has an Ethernet-Port :)