You'd laugh at a developer for having issues with their machine? Sounds like an filled with emotionally immature people to be honest. > optimize for working in

You'd laugh at a developer for having issues with their machine? Sounds like an filled with emotionally immature people to be honest. > optimize for working in planes, trains, hotels or in meetings Yes, one of the criteria here is indeed portability. > you can't even change the mouse pointer color in macOS without buying a third party app I have not in 20 years of software development felt the need to change the cursor colour. Is this an accessibility thing? > 2-3 displays, an ergonomic keyboard and a 5 button vertical mouse in a quiet room Other than the extra screens, nothing is stopping you use your own keyboard/mouse with the laptop and choosing your own room. > I'll have Manjaro/XFCE setup and running circles around an M1 with real containers while you're waiting on virtualized containers or investigating which libs won't compile because they're not ready for the M1 yet. There are indeed some teething issues with M1, but those will be solved eventually. Containers being virtualised hasn't caused too many issues. I fail to understand, if you're using arch, why you'd use XFCE over a tiling wm like i3.