... and terrible battery life, OOM hard restarts, firmware bugs, janky software, useless touchpad, etc.
Like it or not, Apple makes amazing laptops with top notch hardware and software that generally does just work (even if it requires a menagerie of third party apps to restore basic functionality).
I use a Linux laptop at work and these are some of the fun issues I've had:
* Can't use full resolution of some external screens with HDMI, only Displayport. Someone else with the same laptop and OS has no problems.
* It didn't come with swap set up so when I run out of memory it hard reboots. Yes really.
* WiFi stopped working for one particular network. This required some hardcore debugging that only a programmer could do. Turned out it was because I deleted a VPN and that WiFi network was set to automatically connect to it. Even the error message in syslog was of no help.
* Battery life is pretty bad (3 hours maybe?) but this doesn't bother me too much because I only use it at desks.
* For some reason all dialogs (e.g. Save As) open underneath their parent window and you get a notification saying the window is "ready". Dunno wtf led to this.
* Sometimes Firefox just refuses to output to any audio device other than the laptop speakers. Only solution I've found is to restart.
* Webcam doesn't work in Chrome. I just use Firefox for video calls.
* Screen capture doesn't work in Wayland. I reverted to X11.
Can you really not understand why ordinary people would not want to have to deal with that?
Telling everyone to "just use Linux" is like telling everyone to drive a kit car.