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What would be a good laptop alternative to the MBP 2019?

I really prefer UNIX over windows for development but enjoy windows for the 'office' software. OSX really hits the sweet spot in between for me.

What would you recommend windows with WSL2 or VM? Archlinux dual-boot?

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ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen3 would be a direct alternative.

Also look at X1 Carbon (lighter but only 16GB RAM), T-series (cheaper but heavier), P-series (performance, but big and expensive).

Going from 3 years in the Mac world back to Arch Linux was too much of a shock to bear. Plenty of stuff is still unpolished, in flux, making for a subpar desktop experience.

I'm on WSL2 now and honestly, I'm loving it.

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