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@mac_ack it was working perfectly, but there were some things that I couldn't do -or rather, I could but were a bit inconvenient, like spin up a NGINX in a Docker on boot time to have a "personal page" everytime the computer was on (all day except a few hours at night). And I wouldn't install a NGINX on Windows, it doesn't feel "natural".
I wish I could explain better why I went back when I had no problems. It's the feeling of using my home OS, but also a new spin of it (I used MX Linux based on Debian for 4 years) - I'm discovering all the new services/daemons, programs, and changes they made for Wayland and other things with Fedora 44. It has been kinda nice for now.

@georgia I know that feeling from the first time I wanted to use MX Linux as it came configured with XFCE. I think it took me only 2 or 3 days to find it not only usable, but found some advantages that having the bar at the bottom doesn't give you -of the top of my head, notifications and mini widgets are easier to notices.
Now I want to setup the bar vertically myself haha; I remembered another advantage were that you had 100% of the entire vertical area of the monitor, while always having the bar on the side all the time (as obvious as it sound I wanted to make it clear).
Finally, you can give MX Linux a try, I don't know if it will work on your Mac so check before on the forum, but it's based on the fusion of 2 distros (MEPIS and Antix) who wanted to make a stabler-than how stable it's Debian. They also introduced many useful tools like USB making, Kernel setup, their own GUI for package system... and it comes with XFCE vertically aligned as I was saying - I got used thanks to that super ultra stable distro.

@p @cjd about the boot partition, 512MB sounds a waste of space, but I think I must be confusing this with the EFI partition, because I made it of 16MB on /dev/sda2 because /dev/sda1 was suddenly "corrupted", and that amount of space was a lot.
Continuing about the topic, you *should* run sudo apt autoremove (or autoclean - I honestly don't remember the difference right now) - oh wait that doesn't remove old kernels I think...
it doesn't, because MX Linux comes with a tool for exactly that, remove old kernels from the boot partition... but isn't the partition where the BIOS checks first? I'm so confused right now.

Anyway, I will use this post to tell you I applied to a job at Canonical once and they made me have an interview with an AI that would skip questions if you wouldn't begin to reply after 3 seconds (each question) -it was so annoying that I let her keep asking to see what were the questions. Mostly about AppArmor and Snap.