[diragon]

I don't think anyone should downvote expressing an opinion, at least when it's done without toxicity like you did. Ok, that "delusion" remark was a bit toxic. But anyway.

Here's my opinion: i3 is vastly superior to anything macos is offering in the desktop space in terms of usability. Sure, wrestling with minutae like proper font rendering and DPI settings is a huge pain, but a) some distros do those things for you and b) if you're not a serial distro hopper / manic reinstaller, those things don't have to be done too often.

I genuinely think it's an UX upgrade. And I've been using macs almost exclusively for 5 years now.

The bad things of Linux are still bad: subsystems get replaced all the time (often with just minimal technical justification), and the replacements are usually (if you compare them to Macs) alpha quality for a long time. And the integration is lacking. Notable contemporary examples: oss/alsa/pulseaudio/jack/pipewire and x11/wayland. This is something I truly don't miss when using macs. Almost everything else I do miss.

[journey_16162]

To me Mac OS has a nicer looking UI, but i3 has better UX. For instance, the animations on Mac OS are annyoing. There is nothing good about adding a delay to basic operations. On i3, I can switch between workspaces in an instant, on Mac OS, I have to wait for a stupid 200ms animation to finish - and that is after already fiddling in system settings to disable fancy animation effects (the default was slide-in, ugh).

[breakfastduck]

Fair, but it's not vastly superior for the majority of computer users, whose experience revolves entirely around the mouse. That's what I was getting at with macOS being better - generally, obviously not for every person.