For the past 5 years I've used a macbook to ssh in to a Linux VM as my development environment. It was great for the work that I was doing (distributed web systems).
Now that I've changed jobs and I'm developing a desktop app again, I'm back on a physical Linux box under my desk, and I really miss the old experience. It was great to never care about a mac change tanking your productivity (i.e. I was totally unperturbed by the m1 switch), and it was also great not to have to run a Linux desktop environment, which it turns out is still a big pain.
Now that I've changed jobs and I'm developing a desktop app again, I'm back on a physical Linux box under my desk, and I really miss the old experience. It was great to never care about a mac change tanking your productivity (i.e. I was totally unperturbed by the m1 switch), and it was also great not to have to run a Linux desktop environment, which it turns out is still a big pain.