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Love this generation of MacBooks. I used to rice my Linux installs every few months and switch distros or wms and setup new servers. Now I just open my laptop and have at it.

My only suggestion is that you do try Linux a good amount. This can be for a variety of things and even doing this in a VM is good. Get used to the command line and understand how the system purrs.

I started this with Arch and their wiki. Their wiki is great in general even for non-Arch Linux. You could go the hardcore route and do Linux From Scratch on a VM. Or play around with a Raspberry Pi. Or buy an old Lenovo to run something on.

But otherwise my personal preference for a $2K-$4K machine is to get something I can rely on and with an easy repair path. Many won’t agree but Mac fits that book for me.