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> (hardware was decent. Software was terrible)

I'd be interested to hear which software was terrible on mac and what was the better alternative on your side of the fence?

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I think it was mostly familiarity. I'd been using Linux on thinkpads for so long that I had a few config files which for the tools I used. Mine was a very text heavy command line workflow. Mostly driven by the keyboard. Almost no mouse usage (except the occasional GUI program to draw). Tiling window managers. I was also very used to package repositories which worked smoothly (Debian/Ubuntu). Brew etc. wasn't that smooth.

I suppose I could have learnt how to use it and become efficient but even the possible gains seemed very poor and I didn't think it was worth the investment. I used the smallest subset of features I needed to get my work done and that was enough.

Not original poster, but in my experience Excel on the Mac is a God-awful piece of software. It's like Excel-lite, and that just doesn't work for what I need. ymmv of course, depending on what you need.

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