Not sad at all! Mac has excellent hardware, excellent reliability, excellent day to day performance. Im not a fanboy, but it won for (IMHO) clear and obvious reasons. Of course folks want a mac app. No comment on the “harm” bit.
It is by far the most robust hardware and 15 years later Windows laptops may finally be catching up.
My first programming job was LAMP so I had a Linux desktop and loved it. Later I got a new job that gave us laptops, but they were quite beefy.
I had a Dell laptop with an Nvidia GPU and an Intel iGPU... After updating my OS my gpu was the only way to use my laptop, which made the battery die in under an hour and of course it was much hotter.
I tried numerous driver installs, proprietary, open source, reinstall OS, different OS... Nothing got it working again on a newer version of the Linux kernel.
Went to the Apple Store bought a MBP and have never had an issue since. Not one dead laptop, in 10 years, I plug in my USB C dock and go.
2 years later, what happened to one of my coworkers? Same exact thing. He spent 3 days trying to fix it and basically had a workaround that crashed occasionally.
I get paid to produce working software not configure my OS, and people wonder why Macs are so popular?
Personally I haven't had much trouble with Linux on modern Thinkpads. Very little to configure manually, as long as you pick the right distro. Even a Dell laptop at work with Linux isn't causing me much OS-related issues, although battery life sucks.
My 2013 4GB RAM MacBook Air is still running great, and is used for browsing in my household. Currently writing this on an M1 Air that is phenomenal as well.