content: Don't dismiss macOS. I've been a UNIX user for 27 years, and Linux for 22 and currently work as a Linux admin but I use a Mac as my daily machine because it gives me a portable UNIX workstation without all that messing around I had to do with Linux laptops and price wise it is as cheap as any PC laptop once you manage to find one that is a) built well, and b) compatible with Linux. Windows doesn't have that going for it although they're shoehorning the Ubuntu personality in there but it is still nasty because the CTRL-C combination is mapped to copy on Windows which is irritating. On a Mac it is CMD-C so CTRL-C does what it is meant to do.