For $900, you can buy an M1 MacBook Air. It is the sexiest dumb terminal I’ve ever used.
I had used Linux on a laptop for about 15 years prior. It is a fine 90% solution.
The Air is barely the same class of device: no noise, almost instant-on, battery lasts forever.
https://gist.github.com/mmillar-bolis/dcfb3d1814fb0532eb3c71...
https://github.com/keithbarrett/Mac/blob/master/DisableMacSe...
https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/40d000342dd1ba4d892ad0bdf03a...
I haven't used a Mac full-time for years, but the straw that broke the camels back for me was when I was traveling through multiple countries (including in New Zealand and on flights) and I could not get my damn Mac to stop sucking down, well, whatever it was doing. The number of default services running seems to have gotten even worse since then by the looks of these scripts...
There's something ironic and wonderful about a laptop with more processing power than an i7 desktop being called a dumb terminal.