Fundamentally, I believe that Apple's biggest fans fall into two different camps. In one camp, you have people who effectively want macOS on an iPad with a touc

Fundamentally, I believe that Apple's biggest fans fall into two different camps. In one camp, you have people who effectively want macOS on an iPad with a touch-centric UI which is made obvious by their assertion that a unified everything across all devices is the correct path forward. The other camp wants a traditional desktop operating system on their Macintosh computers. Personally, the only reason I enjoy Macintosh machines at all is the UNIX platform with a distraction free environment. The has been dying and I have therefore gone back to using Slackware with TDE. I don't want 50,000 notifications. I don't want my computer to be a dumb terminal to network services. I want my UNIX environment to be a first class feature and not an afterthought. The Apple Silicon chips are the sexiest thing to happen in technology since the introduction of the first ThreadRipper, but they aren't worth the trade off for me personally. Being forced back into the Apple world with, what is in my opinion, a distracting environment just makes me less productive.