In my experience, with the exception of the keyboard, MacBooks have always had pretty good build quality. I know every single person reading this is screaming T

In my experience, with the exception of the keyboard, MacBooks have always had pretty good build quality. I know every single person reading this is screaming THAT'S A PRETTY BIG HONKING EXCEPTION and, yes, absolutely, but the "new" keyboard that replaced the butterfly style one -- which is really not a new keyboard at all, but essentially the external keyboard they've been using for years at this point -- is solid. As for "More [actually good] software supports macOS," I agree that's the definition of an opinion, but it's one that I tend to share, I admit. I think it depends on what you want to do with your computer, though. I'm frequently using BBEdit (it's what I spend all my time in at my technical writing job, in fact), Acorn, Retrobatch, and Ulysses (what I spend all my time in doing fiction writing these days), and none of those have Linux equivalents that I really consider equivalent. YMMV, obviously, but I've tried many of the semi-equivalents that would be available to me if I went back to Linux, and...I could make them work, but either not as well or with way, way more effort. And, as for customization, this is a weird one -- I think different people look at "customization" differently. For me, I don't much care about widget and aesthetic customization, but I love love love things like macOS's Services menu, particularly in combination with Automator, and third-party automation apps like Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, and Alfred -- none of which I've found real Linux equivalents to yet. (They may be out there, but if so, they're not making themselves obvious.) I think Apple actually gives you way more knobs to turn than they're usually given credit for, but against stereotype, they're knobs deep under the hood. Having said that, if I did end up spending a lot of time in Linux again, I'm almost positive I'd go with Xfce once more. I loved it nearly 20 years ago and the times I've checked in since then have just been more positive. :)