Such as?

Feels like the Neo covers pretty much all the bases:

browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and alternatives

IDEs like VSCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse

open source heavy hitters like QGIS, Blender, Ghostty, even Gimp

unix command line tools via HomeBrew, etc

commercial suites like MS Office and Adobe

This is, if crude, the correct take. You always choose your applications first, then the operating system best suited for them, then the hardware platform.