Hi, I’m currently on a MacBook Air M2 8/256 and I’m running out of disk space. System is too large. I love macOS but I’d love to try out something new, such as Fedora and maybe switch to Fedora long-term.
I want to buy any computer (specs don’t matter) as long as it can smoothly run Brave Browser (10 to 20 tabs), VS Code, Terminal, Discord all in parallel on Fedora (preferred) or Ubuntu. The only requirement is that it’s cheap, can be refurbished. I have no preference for arm64 or amd64
Budget: 150$.
If this is out of scope, please disregard my request
I assume “it’s not beautiful” because you’d have a wart sticking off the MacBook.
That raises the question: Do you really need instant access to everything that’s currently on the MacBook? Are you sure? Think on that for a bit.
Because it’s entirely possible the space you need is on the MacBook, you just need to move less necessary things off there onto the external storage to make room before you go travelling.
If it’s anything like my computer, that would be old photos, software downloads, duplicate data on a different drives or partitions from quick and dirty backups. I’ve never quite had the space for movies and/or video downloads from YouTube, Twitch, etc, but I suspect I’d probably have a few of those as well. I doubt I’d miss any of that on a short trip. And if I did, well then, I can pull the wart out of my bag and attach it, assuming I bothered to bring it with me.
CleanMyMac was actually pretty helpful this time. Could free up ~20 GB disk space and I’m thinking about offloading Xcode compile caches to an external drive. My disk space is heavily influenced by homebrew, software caches, dependencies and files regarding software. I have 5 GB documents in my Documents/Image folder, no videos at all and no music. Images very few. But I will see, next time I do a larger upgrade (maybe December) I will go for at least 1 TB space and 16 GB memory, whatever it will be.