When my current CTO at Merkle Science told me that employees got M1 MacBook Pros, I politely asked for a ThinkPad instead. He obliged, winning me over. I was th

When my current CTO at Merkle Science told me that employees got M1 MacBook Pros, I politely asked for a ThinkPad instead. He obliged, winning me over. I was the only employee using Ubuntu for a while. Today I use my ThinkPad P14S AMD Ryzen 7 5600 in a 4 display setup. It is beautiful and I use it with qtile. While I can work with 2 displays, I'd rather have both be external displays than have to use mismatched displays. I used to use my Macbook 2018 that way at Visa. However I loathed that machine because of how many problems I faced with it and how mental the USB C hell was. Having to use istatmenu to turn on the fans manually at full speed was unacceptable. Having to only use ports on the left or right side was unacceptable. I don't ever want to use a macbook ever again. I am certain I will have to since many tech Bros think that it is the best experience out there, and the alternative is Windows which is even worse. I hope every company realizes giving your developers the machine or the OS of their choice is not a bad thing. Stop forcing Devs to use X just because your IT is saying so. Let the developers do their jobs in the best possible way.