> macbooks have long been the most capable dev laptops on the planet
I personally don't find that to be true. The jobs that forced Macbooks on me were fraught with development issues all stemming from macOS.
In Windows, I am currently running Windows 11, several versions of Ubuntu, and even NixOS. WSL vastly outclasses VMs on macOS (which barely work anyway on macOS) and the "Linux but not Linux" nature of macOS.
I personally don't find that to be true. The jobs that forced Macbooks on me were fraught with development issues all stemming from macOS.
In Windows, I am currently running Windows 11, several versions of Ubuntu, and even NixOS. WSL vastly outclasses VMs on macOS (which barely work anyway on macOS) and the "Linux but not Linux" nature of macOS.