I've been tempted by Mac partly because of the beautiful display partly because I'm tired of fiddling around to get various Linux bits to work exactly as I want

I've been tempted by Mac partly because of the beautiful display partly because I'm tired of fiddling around to get various Linux bits to work exactly as I want. I'd have to give up some of my customization, but controlling the hardware and software should make it seamless. Current problem: My ThinkPad docking station has a GPU multiplexer that prevents it from being able to drive two external monitors. Doesn't look like there's a solution at all. The solution I've ended up on is a HP 13 G1 Chromebook. 95% of what I need to do at home I can do there or SSHed in to my AWS machine: OpenVPN to work, SSH to work, all the stuff in the browser. My requirements at home are fairly minimal these days. To the point that I just have a base Ubuntu 18.04 install on the ThinkPad with OpenVPN set up and some keys. This has been an ongoing experiment and it honestly is working out amazingly. This is very good hardware, great display (3200x1800), no worries about the software. It was $500 refurb, and I've been very happy with it. Around the same time I got an Acer for around $250 and the hardware was nowhere near as good. Depending on what you need to do with it, a Chromebook might do the job.