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If it helps, you can at least use any USBC charger you want now. I love my M1 air, but have some similar ranty feelings about the older models from 10-15 years ago. I hope you at least give it a chance. I don't think I could ever go back to Windows. It is Mac or Linux for me.
Oh I know, but it's not about the charger at this point; it's about the company and their stupid, stupid operating system that is dumb.
Well, since you may be forced to use it, here are some utilities to make it better: Rectangle Pro - 200% necessary. $10. Worth every penny. Cleanshot X Homebrew AltTab iTerm2 Oh My Zsh Karabiner Elements may be useful if you need macros/key bindings.
Also, this is cross platform, but giving a shout-out to Obsidian. With a couple plugins, it is a fantastic notes app that is markdown based.
There are plenty of things that are irritating in OSX, but there is a lot I like after using it for a while. Most of the irritations are gone with the above utilities. Unlike Windows, I didn't have to spend a whole bunch of time debloating the OS and advertisements are not shoved in my face. I probably turned it off, but I don't have a damn digital assistant shoved in my face either. Both Linux and OSX (which is Unix) have very clean interfaces. As someone with severe ADHD, an overly distracting UI will stress me out. A lot.
I do have some rather strong feelings about what they are doing with permissions in the Sequoia beta, but I also get what they are trying to achieve. iOS though is torture. I will say that for my iPad that it has improved a lot in 18, but I have 0 desire to ever have an iPhone. iPad is still ultimately hindered by the OS. The iPad Pro has an absurd amount of power, but the restrictions in iPad OS hobble what it is truly capable of.
Oh no...there's no modifying of a school district's technology allowed. That's just not a thing, at least not that I've heard of in the US. Thanks for the recommendations, though, maybe it'll help someone else.
This is my feeling at this point as well. I can't stand the way OS X's DE is setup, but holy cow having an actual bash (okay
zshbut still) shell with common utilities on my computer is amazing for IT stuff and just bypasses so much faffing with powershell oddities and WSL specifics and let's you focus far more on just doing the thing