I previously used IntelliJ IDEA on Linux for over eight years, so I can sympathize with your struggles. [1] Recently I started using OSX because my Thinkpad finally died and I could not find another laptop I liked. So far, it's been pretty bumpy, although I noticed that some things have improved (like fonts and build times). The downside is that many things currently do not work on aarch64 right now, and I somewhat regret making the switch this early. I recently started writing some Haskell, which was a pain to setup on my local machine but now that GHCi and Stack finally support it [2], I think it's getting stable. Hopefully more native libraries will offer support for aarch64, because despite the minor speedups (faster JVM), overall it's been a productivity-killer. Very few native libraries provide M1-compatible builds right now.

[1]: http://breandan.net/2014/08/18/shell-script/

[2]: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/issues/20...