Mine shipped with one. It's not perfect, but it's always been more than capable for me. Did yours not boot into anything on startup?

Snarky but I agree. I dislike how much MacOS changes with each version. My kids have a Linux box (NUC). I wish we could have Linux on a late model Mac Mini

Why is the finder the way it is? Is it actually easier to use than (whatever the normal file browser windows and linux uses is called) if all you ever use is macs?

Most of the other quirks I can work around (though the default alt tab behavior not picking up windows of the same app is an insane default) but the finder is just unusable.

I wonder how many more sales Apple would get if they published enough specs to make Asahi et.al. first-class.