I recently came into a Macbook Pro, 18 GB of Ram, 1TB of storage. Its the only Mac thing I own. Its a real shame I have no idea what to do with this and it is just sitting there. I want to use it for something, but I dont know what. My homelab already has a huge host with a threadripper in it (which also fell into my hands), a pi-hole on a low end pi, and an old PC that runs a Minecraft server just fine. Any suggestions for what to do with this bad boy? I’m not afraid of any OS, all are welcome here. I tend to mostly host media and game servers, I do not have any home automation yet.

Edit: thank you everyone for the suggestions. I love this community <3

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    14 days ago

    The thing I use Mac for primarily is music production. Garage Band is very approachable and free if you’re just getting started. Both Linux and Windows struggle to perform as well as MacOS does in this regard.

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      I have Pro Tools 12 lol, I prefer Ableton and Reaper now. I could take a look st Logic again I didnt get to use Logic X when it came out and it was cool. It might be worth keeping around for audio design now that I make shitty games I never finish or release.

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          Live is substantially better on Mac… I’m pretty sure installing packs takes about 1/10th the time it does on Windows too.