So far I've brought it in for repairs three times, and each time I'm without my workhorse for a week. But sometimes I visit my co-founder in Berlin, or want to work from a coffee shop, and then it's nice to have a working keyboard. When I dock it and use a different keyboard, it's fine of course. I spent the most money I ever did on this MacBook Pro, and it's also the worst machine I ever had because the keyboard breaks down (like, it won't register the s). And I liked having 4 USB-C+ ports that I could do anything with. Why? I (guess I'm the only person alive that) didn't mind the TouchBar or lack of a real escape key (can map Caps Lock to that). Both in terms of productivity and delight I had my best years on Apple and I didn't think I'd ever look back. I started out on MS, from DOS to XP, then Ubuntu from 5.10 Breezy to 9.10 Karmic, then on Apple from OSX 10.5 Leopard to macOS 10.14 Mojave. I've been, as they say, around the block when it comes to operating systems.

It's not the first time I'm switching to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu vs mac os x for programming