If I use one of my Macs then I have to resort to hacks to get a decent OS. A crappy trackpad is ~10-20x less annoying than a hostile OEM, at least for my non-bus-based work.

In any case, my response was to cromka's comment and our shared dissatisfaction with Asahi.

I never said I am dissatisfied! To the contrary, it's way better than my Thinkpad even with Linux. I just miss the fingerprint scanner..