One thing you could consider doing if you are serious about the project is replacing the standard debian testing kernel with the proper kernel.

Debian guts all non-free packages, and binary drivers from the kernel. This greatly improves hardware support.

Thank you, I will look into that. My only hardware concern is the internal microphone, though, everything else works. Even the keyboard backlight, suspend etc. I have much less trouble than I expected ;)

[Edit: I am serious about this project. I'm running Debian full time now since more than a week and consider giving up iOS development, the only thing that can be done only on OS X]

OSX can be ran in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) so if you don't want to quit your side job over the switch :)

[1] http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/

A question: Do you have your apt sources pointed at 'testing' or at 'jessie'.

If the former, you may find stability takes a big hit after jessie becomes stable and all the new packages from unstable get pushed down.

If the latter, you should be good.

I use the same re-mapping of Ctrl, but use a standard PC keyboard - so I put Ctrl on the alt key, put alt on the windows key, and windows key on the ctrl key position.

As I'm a emacs evil-mode user, I also put Escape on the caplock key.

Overall debian is hard to beat unless you need the very latest versions of everything.

It's.. interesting how the Emacs setup is as long as the entire operating system/hardware writeup.

Indeed, in fact I am going to try emacs based on this because I too like Sublime. I don't really care to use Linux.

Edit: nevermind, that was awful