For me, the deal-breaker of non-Apple laptops is the unreliability of Windows and Linux desktop environments. My experience using Arch Linux (with a btrfs filesystem!!) circa 2010 is still my biggest nightmare with computers. It was like my OS could go brick after EVERY rebooting/updating. Seeing the many times that my colleagues using Linux can't connect to wifi, microphone, etc, I'm unsure the usability of Linux desktop environments has improved over the years...
Sadly it seems Apple's OS and laptops are becoming increasingly unreliable too. My top-spec M2 Macbook crashes on a daily basis unless I turn off sleeping, whereas my 2014 macbook air is still as reliable as a brick except that its hjkl keys have been completely dead and it can't upgrade to newer OSs.
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