I stopped using my 2009 MBP in 2021. It had three batteries and a HD to SSD upgrade by that time. For heavy lifting I have been using a Debian minitower with 3 LCDs since 2017. I do 90% of my work on the minitower. For on the road use, I have a Lenovo ChromeBook.
I'm not a gamer, but for development Debian Linux is absolutely perfect. Having multiple screens allows me to have reference information a mere glance away.
I have toyed with other people's recent Macs and I find that with each upgrade Apple increasingly locks you into their ecosystem and ways of working.
I am not a fan of extended use of laptops. By sitting so close to the LCD you end up with myopia and other eye aliments.
> I have toyed with other people's recent Macs and I find that with each upgrade Apple increasingly locks you into their ecosystem and ways of working.
So I now need to ask macOS for permission to open certain apps after every update - and that is not one click process. Before that it was just 'right click and open' so I expect that at some point I would not be able open them at all. But even current situation is not acceptable. Once this mbp dies I will move to Linux - I'm not gamer and there is 1 app I need to figure out alternative for. I already had to make sacrifices with apps when moved from Windows years ago - so I'm ready for that.