[slater]

You'll get a hundred different answers, but yeah, just get a Mac.

Yesyes, it'll cost more upfront, yesyes it has its own quirks, yesyes Apple bad boo hiss etc. etc., but still - to your last point: a long-lived dev OS, combined with nigh-untouchably-good hardware integration (note: integration, not 'the fastest thing nvidia/amd pushed out of the factory last week')?

Get a Mac. M2 Macbook Air is amazing:

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/

[GartzenDeHaes]

I saw Miguel de Icaza, the founder of GNOME and GTK creator, using a Mac on a podcast about Terminal.GUI.

[runjake]

Since at least 2005[1] part-time and 2012-ish full-time: https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html

1. I saw him at a conference in the mid-2000s using a Mac.

[ChuckNorris89]

When Gnome is so bad, even its creators won't dogfood it. :) /s

[shrimp_emoji]

Well, of course. That's the DE GNOME copies. ;D