Really? I thought it was Arch for your desktop, Arch for your laptop and RHEL for your servers? /s

Not so much anymore.

WSL2 under Windows is very good these days, you can run ML tasks without much overhead, and Windows 11 has an x server that allows graphical applications to run from WSL2. So for home development, all you really need is Windows (if you game, if you don't or run games that work well under Linux, Linux is the better choice).

For laptop, it very much varies by use case. For general higher level coding and web browsing, M1/M2s work very well. For more specialized use cases, Linux is simply better than OS X.

I’m now using a Macbook Pro (3 months give or take) after being on windows HPs and the hardware is excellent but macOS itself… not great by any means. Windows+WSL2 is a better developer experience and I’m honestly surprised as I expected it to be the other way around. Granted to make windows usable I had to install tons of tools, but the same is true for the Mac!

have you seen WSL ? Windows is very compelling for your laptop

Agreed on the Linux for your servers bit, for sure.