MacOS is just the sweet spot of great desktop + great unix-style devbox.
On my Debian or Ubuntu dev systems, even with 10+ year old hardware, I'm always one apt dist-upgrade away from having one of the best development environments in the world. On macOS, once my hardware gets "old enough" (as defined by Apple), I'm left in the dust. No more OS updates, no more Xcode versions, no more SDKs. I can shore up some development capabilities using Homebrew, but Homebrew itself perpetuates[1] the treadmill.
No thanks, I'll stick with Linux, where I can tinker to have the OS work the way that is best for me, instead of what Apple thinks is best for me.
NixOS has a declarative configuration that is simply key=value for most use cases. Whatever you configure stays configured, and you can also rollback when doing dramatic changes e.g, migrating from Xorg to Wayland takes 2 min and changing 1 LOC in your configuration.
Me too, but Tahoe is hideous. I hope they revert back to something sensible, or I'm going to move to Linux full time.
However, I went back to linux on my personal laptop (nixos on my case) and I am pleasantly surprised how many things now just work.
The only thing that still annoys me is the laptop not sleeping properly and therefore using too much battery power when idle.
It has made great strides on the last two or so years.
On top of that I've been locked out of my machine and Apple ID and they just kept sending me emails that in some weeks they were going to reset my password, and they sent me those emails for 2 months before I got access to my apple id and machine again, proof[1].
They just kept not obliging the "2 weeks" (which is already mad when I've given you my secret password and I've verified my email and phone already).
And they did not respect the two weeks 3 times in a row!
That is beyond disgusting and Apple has never got a single $ from me since, I only own a MBP I use on the move because a client has sent me an M3 Max with 48 GBs so it made no sense to at least not use it.
And if I need to format it, it's not even my problem.