J.P. WingI continue to be very impressed by the performance of Apple Silicon. The MacBook Neo, especially at that price point, truly is a game changer for the market. On the bright side, there's plenty of open source tools, package managers, etc. that work just fine on macOS. And with UNIX underpinings, it's mostly comfortable for those of us that use Linux and grew up on UNIX.
And, FWIW, the MacBook Neo is not designed to do everything a MacBook Pro can do. The two laptops are aimed at different markets and spec'd accordingly. If my parents were still alive, I'd absolutely be getting them each a Neo.