Spoiler: They’re not. They’re postponing. Eventually, they’ll almost all give in to the bullying :(

My primary laptop was Windows 10. Since Win11 was so different in interface, and sucked so much with MS AI+Onedrive force feeding, it was no different effort to switch to a different OS.

I went with a Mac M2 system with OSX as my secondary OS, and Asahi Linux as my primary dual booting. So far I've only been in OSX for the initial user account creation and launch of the Asahi installer, but OSX is there to boot back to if I run into something commercially proprietary that simply doesn't run on Linux.

I'm a couple of weeks into this config so far and am quite enjoying Linux OS on Mac hardware.