I use Bazzite and have a Mac, and I despise every second I have to use MacOS. It is unintuitive and painful in comparison. IMO

Very easy to script this though, if it’s important to you.

Beginners can recycle an old mini/micro PC. You can buy refurbished ones from computer recyclers for like $15.

At both ends of the spectrum you can save money. The people who don’t (like me) are not doing it for the goal of saving money.