> don’t buy a Mac.
As opposed to what hardware, then? Because this is pretty much how most other drivers became a thing in the first place. Linux has come a long way and due to it "winning the cloud" many hardware vendors started properly supporting it, but this was absolutely not the case for the longest times.
So we make excuses for apple because that’s how it used to be back in the bad old days? This is flawed logic.
As for alternatives, there are many.