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I'm in the market for a new personal laptop. At work for the past 7 years I've been using ChromeOS devices. At work currently I have an M1 MacBook Pro 16. In the past, I'd been running Linux on x86 essentially since Windows XP.

In reading the current state of things (and seeing how craptastic Windows 11 is on my son's Lenovo X1 Carbon), I actively do not want to buy a Windows machine. There are very few hardware vendors that seem to actually give a crap about providing a high quality product & user experience, and - although I was fanatical about my Thinkpad T40 back in the day - I've become jaded by my Pixelbook that "just works", and now my MacBook.

I don't believe, because only Google & Apple are able to control the whole stack, anyone building Windows-based laptops is actually able of creating the level of quality & polish consumers would like to see. That's said, but not unexpected. Microsoft & Intel should have anticipated this.