Apple

Three years ago MacBooks were in a pretty bad spot for me and I switched to Ubuntu, later Pop!_OS. It was a fun ride. While coding I felt very productive because the OS is so low in distractions and just feels incredibly responsive. Installing the world via apt beats brew 10x, and native Docker on Linux is so much faster it isn't even funny. We had to abandon Docker because we had folks with macOS on the team. But, other tasks (email, conference calling, scanning, word, upgrading without breakage) came with more friction, and those tend to fill up ever larger shares of my day.

It's not the first time I'm switching to Ubuntu. I've been, as they say, around the block when it comes to operating systems. I started out on MS, from DOS to XP, then Ubuntu from 5.10 Breezy to 9.10 Karmic, then on Apple from OSX 10.5 Leopard to macOS 10.14 Mojave. Both in terms of productivity and delight I had my best years on Apple and I didn't think I'd ever look back. But here we are.