I also now generally prefer macOS, but I find it worth the $100/year to license Parallels for M1 Macs. It is set up for trivial installs of Ubuntu and a few other Linux distros that support the ARM-64 architecture.
I had two older Mac laptops that stopped functioning with the latest macOS update for encrypted iCloud files (now just about everything is encrypted in motion and at rest). I put Ubuntu on both, a MacBook and a very old (tiny model) MacBook Air that is many years old.
I had two older Mac laptops that stopped functioning with the latest macOS update for encrypted iCloud files (now just about everything is encrypted in motion and at rest). I put Ubuntu on both, a MacBook and a very old (tiny model) MacBook Air that is many years old.