Nice setup! I love the monitor.
I've been with Macs since university, 25 years ago. I was linux in university, but after I graduated I found myself wasting too much time fiddling so I moved to a system that would handle it for me while still offering me the BSD command line if I really wanted it. These Apple Silicon machines are amazing, aren't they? I am tempted to upgrade to the M3, but I'm find with the M1 right now, so I'm avoiding the gear lust.
I don't know much about the audio stuff, but sounds like you have it all set up well.
A good friend of mine from high school (total stoner) was a core linux developer back in 1993 when we were around 18 or 19. He was a much better coder than me back then. He kept telling me that he was working with the dude Linus and they were creating a Unix clone. I was super turned off by Unix so I ended up behind the curve with Linux for a decade after that. I wish I had paid attention! My buddy ended up making a lot of money over the years.
I have been really happy with them to be quite honest. The only annoying thing which is slowly getting remedied has been the need to use Rosetta to run certain programs that have not yet transitioned to Arm. Apple tends to blaze full speed ahead leaving developers in a panic to catch up! But we are getting there.