@ljs @kirby @a1ba MacOS is a thing I just can't recommend, hardware is expensive and the hardware support is just so bad it's basically vendor-locking you.

Meanwhile most people I know can just get a random medium-entry laptop where you then slap a random distro like Mint/Debian/Fedora.
Worse is like chromebooks could have a serious impact but the support is so abysmal it's just not a serious alternative.