I’ve been very surprised by Macs. If you told me forty years ago that I’d be using a MacBook one day I wouldn’t have believed you - they were always the fringe

I’ve been very surprised by Macs. If you told me forty years ago that I’d be using a MacBook one day I wouldn’t have believed you - they were always the fringe systems that couldn’t integrate with anything except the alien spaceships in Independence Day and the users were always marketing darlings that could not find anything that wasn’t visible on the screen in front of them. However fast forward to today and Macs integrate very well into the environment, the development tools are free, you can throw iterm2 on and have a very nice Unix environment, add in Docker and you have a pleasant Linux environment at your disposal as well. Microsoft stuff works well enough - Teams on Linux is a real pig that consumes all memory and CPU, and drops audio randomly - but that is completely on Microsoft. Apple has its own issues but if your not developing MacOS kernel extensions you can steer clear of most of it. Pay your $100 for Apple Care or your a third class citizen. I’ve seen Apple replace iPhones that had obviously been clawed open with a fork with a smile if you had Apple Care but they won’t do jack if you don’t have it.