It's a great machine for other things, too. And there are so many hoops you don't have to jump through. I remember wasting a whole day on trying to get some Dell's WiFi working under Linux. And then there are tools like Pixelmator, which simply have no equivalent on Linux. Not to mention that the company uses Office 365 for everything, and that just doesn't run well in a browser.

OTOH, setting up brew is pretty simple, and installing Docker is even simpler.