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Also a longtime, off-and-on Linux user. Using old gaming laptops instead of Apple HW, though.

My latest thing has been Solus Linux. The hardware has "just worked", the package management is genuinely original, it has a stable rolling-release and definitely cleaner feeling than the Debian/Redhat landscape(I have not opened a command line for packages, not even once!), it has a MATE desktop(which they plan to switch over to XFCE, but it's basically the same to me - tried and true over bold and new) and the remaining bits of snowflake software work in a VM running whatever other OS.

So the computer has finally gotten out of the way for me, at least until I do software development. But that's one of the things I bottle up in the VM, and the only associated hassle of that is the edit/test cycle, for which I just forgo IDE functions to do fast local editing and try not to rely on a fast iteration loop otherwise. I've learned that it mostly gets you to wrong answers faster and the insights need time anyway.