Serious answer: My work laptop is a toolbench, and I want the tools to operate exactly as I expect them to. For me, that means that I want a Linux environment,

Serious answer: My work laptop is a toolbench, and I want the tools to operate exactly as I expect them to. For me, that means that I want a Linux environment, not a BSD-ish environment. I want my standard Unix tools to be the GNU variants, and for them not to be named with an extra "g" prefix. I want the OS to install binaries roughly where I expect them to be. I want the init system to work in a way I understand. Basically, I want Linux because I am familiar with how Linux and Linux tooling works, and that makes me very efficient on Linux. Using MacOS is acceptable but it feels somewhat like having one hand tied behind my back. A seasoned MacOS user probably has the same feeling but in reverse. (As an aside: In 2022, I don't recognize the comments about modifying WiFi drivers, compiling from source or having sleep/resume issues. That definitely used to be the case in the distant past, but over the last five years or so Ubuntu have really got their stuff together. I don't think I would have ever recognized the comments on brew, which I always found infuriating and messy compared to apt. Perhaps it all comes down to taste, and that's okay?)