I have! IMHO any answer is going to be personal, so I'm going to give my personal take. Advantages: - Biggest one without a doubt is battery life. This is bot

I have! IMHO any answer is going to be personal, so I'm going to give my personal take. Advantages: - Biggest one without a doubt is battery life. This is both a hardware and software issue, but it's such a deal breaker for me who used to work remotely and was always frustrated with Linux because of this. - High quality hardware. When I used linux I basically chose the closest laptop possible to mac anyway, since they ARE the highest quality in hardware (body case, touchpad, keyboard, etc.). Still nothing comes close by a mile in PC-land. I used to use the Zenbook line. - The programming transition is super-smooth. As a front-end dev, I did not notice at all the transition from the coding point of view. As you probably know, the new Apple Silicon also is great for dev. - Better UI consistency. In Linux you have different distros, each with it's own style that in 2023 are pretty great TBH. But then each program will use a different style, so it's a bit of a mess. With Mac you have a consistent UI across all apps. - As you said, everything (even with the Apple Silicon) basically works out of the box smoothly. Problems: - Pushing for Apple services. In the end, it's a platform and they push for their own services. Be it Safari, or having to go through XCode, or the Apple Store, yeah I am not too happy with that. - In Linux-land there's usually mid-range programs that do the job well, while with mac you have either the super-specialized ones or the not-enough ones. Example: light editing a pic with GIMP, light video editing with KDEnlive, etc. - Filesystem compatibility, I have my external backup drives encrypted with EXT3/4, and of course that doesn't work with Mac. - When you do manage to break something (I did in the past by installing python 3 and renaming `python` to point to `python3`) it's a lot harder to fix, in Linux it's easy to just burn a USB and reinstall it all. - Bunch of punctual problems that were fixed eventually; but point to the flaw that Apple is a single system and you are at their mercy. Couple of generations of all their laptops had terrible keyboards, the Apple Silicon was a lot smoother than I expected but still ofc it was a transition so was a bit painful, etc.