Appreciate the reply. > There's stuff like iTunes opening every time I connected BT headphones, and regular attempts to nag me into using Safari. I don't know

Appreciate the reply. > There's stuff like iTunes opening every time I connected BT headphones, and regular attempts to nag me into using Safari. I don't know if these are legacy concerns, but this has not happened to me ever in the past 3 years. > The window manager with its fullscreen mode and lack of tiling (Spectacle makes that bearable) Yabai solves this very well. > the often still manual process of installing and updating apps (maybe I could have used Brew or MacPorts more heavily) I recommend Nix and Homebrew. > the inability to debug and fix any OS problems, How often do you run into this? I just don't really. I remember in my earlier days I did a bit because of some pinned package versions prevalent in macOS but when I switched to using Nix this went away, so I haven't run into any OS issues since... I think Catalina. > Apple doesn't seem to care even remotely about users like me, and that's perfectly within their rights. The logical thing for me was to use something else. That's totally fair. I love my MacBook, but I also have not run into the same struggles. I think my experience has been the complete opposite - once I configured it properly, it not only "just works", but I've yet to find a laptop that connects other aspects so seamlessly (AirPods, FaceTime, iMessage, Notes are all killer features in my day-to-day). Additionally, since switching to the M1, I have yet to find a laptop comparable in battery life (speed is generally matched when considering prices).