Are you going to continue using the Mac hardware? I think that would be the first question I’d need answered. If not, I’d go for a Linux first laptop like one from System76, which comes preloaded with PopOS! In fact even if you’re keeping your Mac hardware, PopOS is what I’d recommend. It’s Ubuntu based with the snaps taken out and flatpak/flathub enabled out of the box. It’s Gnome modifications make it quite easy to use, and they’ll be dropping the first version of their new COSMIC desktop environment, that’s written in rust, sometime soon.