I'd like to use one of those Mac Minis as a homeserver/homelab and macOS is the only thing standing in the way. Similarly, I doubt there is a non Apple laptop that matches the M1 Macbook Air's battery life to performance ratio, specially in that form factor.

I know Asahi linux exists but reverse engineered drivers will never be as effective/performant as official drivers. Porting drivers to Linux won't even be expensive for Apple. They refuse to do it just cause theyre Apple.

I bought an M1 max laptop and I’m almost tempted to go back to my Linux machine because of several issues I have with macOS. There are things that are by design like mandatory animation delays for things like switching spaces and going in/out of fullscreen, which are borderline dealbreakers for me given how often I do those things. And there are also things I suspect are either bugs or straight up performance lapses, such as scrolling through text in a terminal at 4k being slow if you have ligatures enabled.

I could go on, but I think it’s a perfectly valid sentiment (regardless of whether or not they were venting) to wish for mac hardware with a Linux OS.