@futureowl yes! I've got a lot of old thingies* i should really throw out but I've been fantasizing about trying to run Blender or Audacity on a distro like freeBSD or gentoo or whatever. BUT. That's all the Linux words i know. So I'll need suuuper simple step by step. So if you do it, and talk about it, then the rest of us can (try) to follow along!
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(*mac 512, mac 2se, early imac, win7 laptop, several ancient windows towers...)