I am wondering if those that chose Mac or other have tried windows recently? Turn on the Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10 and give Bash on Windows a try. It's not quite the same as a full Linux install but for 90 to 95% of the things you want to do is just as good, plus then when you're done coding you can play games! https://char.gd/blog/2017/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-modern-dev-environment-on-windows