[rorroe53]

Macbooks have been nice since M1 era, but the Intel Macbooks between years 2013-2020 were hardly robust. My partner's 2014 MBP Retina's screen plastic film started peeling off, which was a known design flaw of those models. Later the ones with butterfly keyboard were notoriously unreliable, with keys getting stuck.

Personally I haven't had much trouble with Linux on modern Thinkpads. Very little to configure manually, as long as you pick the right distro. Even a Dell laptop at work with Linux isn't causing me much OS-related issues, although battery life sucks.

[Klonoar]

Well, no. The 2015 MBP is a well known workhorse that stretched many people professionally up to the M1. I would absolutely agree that the 2016-2020 Intel MacBooks were rough though.

[alp1n3_eth]

Every company can have its issues, I think it's more about how many issues there are and what the company did to address it.

My 2013 4GB RAM MacBook Air is still running great, and is used for browsing in my household. Currently writing this on an M1 Air that is phenomenal as well.

[MarcelOlsz]

I switched to old ass thinkpads like the x120e which I absolutely love, and ssh into a server much more powerful to do my work.