[kingnothing]

Maybe it's an excellent experience these days, but every time I've tried Linux on desktop over the past 25 years I get burned. Maybe it works for a while, then your NIC driver gets borked and you spend 2 days trying to get it working again. Or some update goes sideways and you lose the GUI, launching only into a terminal. It's always something. And laptops have even less common hardware than desktops.

On the other hand, every Mac I've used over the past 15 years has been bulletproof. It turns on, it works, it runs *nix. It's an invisible interface to getting work done.

[franktankbank]

FWIW I have had no issues on a thinkpad for past 10 years running standard linux distros. I think it may come down to a combo of os and particular mb/laptop which is pretty easy to find recommendations.

[butILoveLife]

I'd be willing to gamble that you used Debian-family. Debian is outdated linux. It is literally designed to be 2 years outdated upon release.

Use Fedora. Its up to date.

Note that Fedora is NOT Arch.

[mikey_p]

That's kinda the point of the Mac though, you don't have to get the right distribution or deal with pedantry, you buy, take it home, open it and will run for 8-10 hours of work without charging. No distro issues.

[butILoveLife]

But then you dont get Nvidia, 16gb, or 512 SSD.

And all you needed to do was know Fedora is SOTA. Once you know that, you don't need to change.