I used Linux as my main operating system on the desktop for 16-17 years before switching to OSX. The reason was that I was tired of having laptops that didn't

I used Linux as my main operating system on the desktop for 16-17 years before switching to OSX. The reason was that I was tired of having laptops that didn't work properly and the endless weeks of tweaking whenever I got a new laptop. It also helped that Macbooks were pretty decent laptops. I needed a portable UNIX machine. First and foremost. The software available for it was a bonus. In the latter half of the 2010s the quality of the Macbooks has had a sharp downturn. The majority of the Macbook Pros my team has bought has had problems. Keyboard, screen connectors, batteries, etc. Fully one third of them have had more than one problem (including recurrence of the same problem after repair). Experiences colleagues have had with the new Macbook Pro 16" are also quite depressing. Reports of the thing thermal-throttling and spinning up its fans like crazy doesn't make me want to upgrade from my 2015 Macbook Pro 15". I'll hang on to that machine until there's nothing left of it. The hardware quality argument for Apple is gone. They are odd, fragile, finnicky devices that you can't really repair (it is too expensive, and the approved repair shops generally do not have the qualifications to do board repairs - they can only reliably, and expensively, replace stuff). And while people have their own anecdata, I've had to approve computer purchases for my department for the last 6-7 years. We do NOT have anywhere near these kinds of problems with Thinkpads. I, rather foolishly, installed Catalina, and what is immediately obvious is where Apple is heading: they want to lock down Macs more. Getting software from parties that have not paid Apple for access (come on, let's be honest, this is about money) to run is getting more and more painful. And a few things simply do not run anymore. The trajectory Apple is on means that I might go back to using Macs as my secondary platform - or even start to look to Windows as my secondary platform. With Linux as my primary platform. I think that right now is perhaps the time in the last 20 years where having more desktop software for Linux would be a very good thing. I really, really want Fusion 360, Affinity suite, Ableton Live etc on Linux now. Because I really, really do not want Apple to be part of my future if they are going to become a fully walled garden running on marginal hardware.