thinking about finally switching now that the m1 air is on sale and my old laptop no longer has a working keyboard and only sometimes detects USB C
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Tbh, nothing. I’ve been a Mac user my whole medium-length life, and I can no longer sell it on the system’s own merits, nor the hardware’s longevity.
But that’s not to say you shouldn’t buy one. Rather, I think you should focus on the pros and cons of the chip for a POSIX person.
honestly the best thing about M1 macs is the new chip, it's almost comical how both powerful and power-efficient it is
(also asahi linux has been getting more stable so you can put that onto it and still get the super powerful CPU/GPU)
I really like the security model of Mac, except that it is apita for package managers.
Biggest con of Mac is that they have poor bang for buck when compared to Linux systems. Also to a degree with windows systems but windows has always been so slow that it compensates for the better hardware.
Truly seamless and performant mixed DPI setups. In our experience macOS is the only OS that can handle mixing high DPI and low DPI monitors together, without weird scaling issues or blurry text or performance issues, etc.
Other than that, not a whole lot tbh? macOS's main draw for us is that it's a Unix that's still pretty customizable but also has "it just works" in a lot of places. It doesn't do a ton that you couldn't do with enough work in other OSes.
Oh, and I guess also Preview.app, which we unironically think is one of the most well made desktop applications ever made, which is wild when it's just macOS's default image and PDF viewer
With AsahiLinux and/or virtualisation basically nothing imo. macOS is fine for a daily general purpose OS but if you need proper debugging tools for example or if you like tiling WM, Linux is still the best.
Personally I'm using macOS outside of work and reboot to AsahiLinux when I'm working and it's been a really nice experience for me (it even forces me to split work and life stuff into two different partitions! what a concept ^^"")