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A long time Linux user myself (Gentoo->Arch->Ubuntu), switched to M1 macBook for work recently.

The battery life is amazing, and I haven't heard the CPU fan yet (seriously, I compile things a lot, but the CPU fan remains idle and the laptop is cold). Real "Esc" key and a normal keyboard is a big plus.

In my case one external display was enough (as I only have one at home), also 16GB of RAM turned out not to be a problem for what I do so far (Go/C++/Python, some backend, some frontend, some IoT). Docker works fine, so does the rest of the tools I normally use.

As I mostly use terminal-based apps or VSCode - I didn't even notice any difference. It might be just me, but over the last few years I decided to get equally comfortable/productive with both macOS and Linux, so I trained myself to use the tools that work the same way on both platforms. So far it was well worth it.