so I had to install El Capitan on another drive.
I finally moved off High Sierra couple months ago. My private laptop, which this is being written on, is a Model A1502, i.e. Early 2015 13" Retina Macbook Pro. It is fast enough for everything I do on it; the main problem is that it has only 128GB storage, which is a bit of a squeeze today. I run Catalina on it. High Sierra was not bad, not at all, but the main problems I had was that Home Brew would not bother, and that X.509 certificates were not updating properly, giving problems first and foremost with LetsEncrypt certs, which require updated certificate chains.
While I do have the install packages for most of the software, and it will start enough for me to see what it is, I don't have access to the original owner's accounts, so can't actually use it.
mmm, one never owns software. capitalist dream of making the poor sods pay again and again.
if I ever got my Kung-Fu up to snuff.
I wish you stop underrate yourself here. You've got the mind for it, I can tell.
The problem is that you're likely to be frustrated by the myriad things-that-look-they-might-work in most Linuxen. The complete lack of oversight, taste and regulation in the Linux world makes things a bit chaotic there. Like visiting a
cliché oriental bazaar and trying to do a trend analysis of the carpet market. Every subsystem has at least 17 slightly varying graphic config utilities that each consume 8x the compute resources that the underlying actual daemon/whatever will, just to look cute. And none of them work. As soon as one gets into tinkering mode (and Dragons do!), the only path is text editor on config file.
You instead probably need to install something that is very simple and actually will deliver to promise, like one of the BSDen.
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