“I haven’t heard the fan turn on at all yet, so either my workloads, and even my compilations, are too light-weight, or the fan is pretty quiet.”
An M1 Pro laptop runs two to three times faster than his Intel desktop and stays silent. The hardware is the easy sell. The rest of the post is the fight to make macOS behave like Linux, with Homebrew, casks and packages that don’t support ARM yet. Apple wins on silicon and makes you work for everything else.