Fedora on Lenovo laptops as well: https://fedoramagazine.org/lenovo-fedora-now-available/

I'm personally quite fond of System76.

Unfortunately System76 still uses 10 year old LCDs. Let me know when their displays are at least as good as an 8 year old retina MacBook Pro.

Highly recommend the Dell XPS 13 if you enjoy the Macbook build quality. The edge-to-edge screen feels like the future.

I run EndeavourOS which is like a GUI installer for Arch. Arch's package management with (AUR -- Arch User Repo) will remind you a lot of Homebrew. And their wiki helps you get up to speed quickly.

I did that already with a ThinkPad T495. Couldn't be happier. With Arch Linux and KDE it's objectively far superior to Mac OS for development (I do mostly TypeScript and Rust).

The crazy thing is that I've been blind to the massive improvement that happened in Linux-land for the 7 years I was using Mac OS.

Of course there is still some PITA with missing productivity software (in my case for hobby photography), but so far I am determined to suffer with open source tools and maybe try to contribute a little.

superfish was reason enough for me to never touch lenovo and all the other malware they've infested their systems with since have only made me feel better about that decision. Dell might be okay though.

use Fedora. I run Fedora on a Dell XPS and version 33 is great.