[reacharavindh]

This. I’ve worked with Linux on servers for more than 10 years. I know my way around. I’d love to use it on my laptop, but the hardware/firmware just isn’t there compared to a minimal MacOS. I feel that MacOS is bloated with features I don’t need or want. However, As a laptop with a kick-ass CPU, fast memory, fast(albeit limited and expensive) storage, high DPI display, solid battery capacity and importantly working “sleep and wake up” feature upon closing the lid and opening it, Apple has earned their money.

I could tune my way into making Linux do many of those things, but even in 2025, that feels like an exercise of putting lipstick on a pig.

So, I’ve made my peace and settled on a minimal MacOS on MacBook Air as the client, and do majority of my dev/admin work on a beefy Linux server that I can ssh into with ease. Play to each OS’s strengths..