[lupinglade]

Apple has been going down hill at an exponential rate since the loss of Steve (and subsequently just about all real engineers at Apple).

Swift is turning into a mess and SwiftUI is complete, utter garbage. Tahoe’s UI is unbearable.

The problem is there is no real alternative - Linux is the closest thing (but has its issues).

[hedora]

I’ve got two linux desktops and a mac. Combined, the linux desktops hit issues far less often than the mac.

The Linux desktop environment I use (LXDE) is not perfect, but it hits fewer issues than Mac OS. For instance, my Linux box doesn’t try to melt due to finder reindexing, and alt-tab works. Also, I don’t have to position the mouse cursor outside the window to resize (that bug predates tahoe, fwiw). I haven’t had any system services or local IPC crap wedge on Linux like they do on MacOS (I have seen systemd wedge those sorts of things, so I don’t use it).

The integration with iMessage, Notes, Photos and phone calls are clear wins for the mac, but that’s about it.

Some people would say you need nvidia+linux for local inference, but, in practice, AMD iGPU and Apple Silicon both work well (and you can get 32GB of unified ram for much less than a 32GB video card), and the ecosystems are fine. So, I’d call that a tie for anything that can reasonably be called a personal computer or workstation. Some people would argue Linux wins.

If you grab a copy of devuan and slap steam on top of it, then it’ll be able to run far more commercial and open source games than MacOS.

As a daily driver, Linux on a modern vanilla SoC box comes with far less day-to-day hassle. (It’s getting the same level of “we actually tried this exact config” as MacOS does.)

Anyway, I wouldn’t really claim Linux has “issues” vs macos at this point.