+1 for fedora. I have been using it for years. I have never been a big fan of doing the kind of tinkering arch and some of these other linux distributions requ

+1 for fedora. I have been using it for years. I have never been a big fan of doing the kind of tinkering arch and some of these other linux distributions require for getting work done. Driver/hardware wise I personally haven't had problems with fedora. I tend to buy asus and lenovo for those who are curious. Hardware aside,fedora strikes the right balance between control and easy to use for me. I also don't have high end requirements for my text editor though. I'm a java/c++ guy who uses commercial IDEs. At the same time I like that nvidia and others more or less "acknowledge" fedora exists and publishes drivers and rpms for most things. That being said, DNF also works well enough for me. I haven't had to build anything from source. I have tried macs, lived in SF for a few years surrounded by them, had colleagues who used them, and just never understood the appeal. I tried it once and just didn't feel the need to switch. Macs feel over priced and don't really get upgraded. For those who buy in to the whole apple ecosystem (including development) I could understand why you would do it though. I don't do mobile development though. Much of my experience is definitely specific but I think broad enough to match a certain kind of audience that might use macs but be on the "fringes" of the ecosystem without doing iphone development and the like.