[marlowe221]

I don't know what I have to do to get the sublime desktop experience that macOS is famous for...

My work-issued Macbook Pro regularly forgets which monitor (my external monitor or the built-in display) is the primary monitor and moves the dock and task bar between them seemingly at random.

My mouse sensitivity is cranked all the way up but my mouse still feels like it's mired in tar compared to my Windows and Linux machines.

The dock is always in the way. I can hide it when a window approaches/overlaps it, but it often takes multiple swipes with the mouse to get it to reappear. Completely removing the dock (which would be my preference) does not seem to be an option. I was able to move it to the left side of the screen, which is better - why take up so much valuable vertical screen real estate with a top bar and a dock on the bottom???

So... I don't know. I'm not seeing it personally. For me Gnome, KDE, Windows 10, and Windows all provide a better GUI desktop experience than macOS.

[Klonoar]

If you want to “get rid” of the dock, there’s an unconventional trick for this I use: you can set a much longer hover timer via defaults in terminal.

I set mine to around 40 seconds. I haven’t seen my dock a year or so.

Note I’ve not jumped to Monterey yet so this is untested there.

[skydhash]

> but my mouse still feels like it's mired in tar

I think you need to increase the tracking speed in "Mouse" preferences. Mine is about 75% and I can move across a 1440px screen with just a small flick.

[adamomada]

The three finger swipe up (“mission control”) reveals the hidden dock if you need to see it or use it