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If I'm just 'borrowing' El Capitan, then that means the copy I'm running belongs to them. Therefore, any intellectual property I develop using my copy could technically belong to them?

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No. If you paint a picture using a borrowed brush, you still own the picture, as well as the copyright on the creative work.

Come to Linux my brother, heed the call of salvation!

X Windows has traumatized me in the past.

You don't have to use it.

Downvoted for some reason, but there's Wayland and Mir.

it got a lot better. on my archlinux install (on a macbook), the only thing that did not work out of the box was wifi (i had to install proprietary broadcom drivers).

other than that, everything is fine and dandy. and it boots a lot faster than osx ever did.

Yup, indeed, running Arch on a 2013 MBA here. It's been a pleasure so far. Installing the broadcom driver was a breeze, and never had any issues.

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