Yea, I think I've been through a similar thought process. Apple hardware is second to none and their machines do look awfully pretty. Macs have become the defau

Yea, I think I've been through a similar thought process. Apple hardware is second to none and their machines do look awfully pretty. Macs have become the default engineering laptop in all the start ups I've been at in the past ~10 years but I never got to the point where I was really comfortable. I have grown to really love wsl 2 on windows in the past year that I've used it. To me it seems really elegant and has been a dream to work on. Most assume it's just a vm running on windows, but the integration it has between Linux and windows make it extremely powerful (eg from your Linux shell you can run windows executables, so you can do stuff like run powershell to write text to your windows clipboard or run 'code .' to open the windows vs code gui on your current working directory in wsl). I'm not sure if it would be best for everyone, but as an SRE it's great to have my Linux container have the same operating system my company uses in production so that I don't need to figure out how to do stuff on two different operating systems and I am just a lot more comfortable on centos.