[itsjareds]

Desktop, I'm not sure. Being primarily a laptop user, I find myself missing the superior power management that comes with using the default OS and original drivers. I started with a Windows laptop with a short battery life, where ekeing out every little bit of extra juice was important, to a MacBook Pro that does very well at conserving battery. (Much better than stock Ubuntu/Linux Mint, at least.) The gestures in Mac OS and the HiDPI support are important to me too. I'm a pretty average laptop user, though, so I don't know that I'm the intended audience.

I do miss having a proper package manager. Homebrew is just okay.

[nextos]

If you cherry pick your laptop for Linux and use powertop (it now has a systemd service to implement all powersaving optimizations) its pretty easy to get very good power management.