While I have been using MacBooks as my personal and work computers for the majority of the past 10 years, I used to work exclusively on Thinkpads, and used two

While I have been using MacBooks as my personal and work computers for the majority of the past 10 years, I used to work exclusively on Thinkpads, and used two generations of them as my personal computers. Both of them still work and I expect them to keep working thanks to their almost unlimited repairability. While I still prefer macOS over any other operating system, I think young people with lots of spare time on their hands could benefit a lot from spending a few years working on Linux, to pick up command-line skills and general computing awareness that is useful on any platform.