I find that I'm spending more time tweaking MacOS than the two others. At my previous job I was lucky to use a workstation. It was running a plain Ubuntu LTS p

I find that I'm spending more time tweaking MacOS than the two others. At my previous job I was lucky to use a workstation. It was running a plain Ubuntu LTS provisioned by my IT using Puppet. Zero maintenance on my end. For the handful of applications where I wanted the latest versions, getting upstream or PPA packages was usually enough. I don't know why you think Snap packages are flaky, they're great for things like Jetbrains IDEs. Never had a problem. I admit Homebrew gives me access to the latest binaries quickly, but it's also the slowest and most brittle package managers I've been using.