A few notes for context on why (for my needs) linux is better than mac: Off the top of my head there are a few primary reasons I prefer linux: * WM Aesthetics

A few notes for context on why (for my needs) linux is better than mac: Off the top of my head there are a few primary reasons I prefer linux: * WM Aesthetics - Arch+i3 (or any minimal, preferably tiling WM) provides a gorgeous minimalist aesthetic -- checkout /r/unixporn for examples. MacOS is just too visually noisy for me. * I was going to buy a new macbook pro, but then they went and got rid of the escape and function keys. Escape I could probably live without (I tap caps-lock for escape), but function keys I want (at least until the apple touchbar proves itself to be comparatively useful). * I'm tired of Apple's hyperbole and smugness, especially considering they haven't done anything really interesting since Jobs passed away. * Customizability: really no comparison here. This is my big one. * Pacman/AUR - honestly homebrew is pretty good though. Negatives: * Occasional weirdness/breakage. * Can take a lot of research to figure out how to get things to work at times (note: usually not common things anymore though, like wifi etc); sometimes they just don't work without an unreasonable amount of work, or at all (e.g. hibernate). Many things are esoteric in general and have marginal documentation (arch wiki is great though). Granted this is part of the fun (I mean, I am a programmer :). * Spent tens of hours setting things up to function the way I want (keep in mind I don't use gnome/kde so that would likely fix a lot of issues like external monitor support for HiDPI, and I tend to do heavy/esoteric customization of the user experience). Most of this is because I haven't used linux as my personal machine for ~5 years (i.e. setting it up again would be a few hours or less likely). If you use Gnome/Unity/KDE this probably wouldn't be the case. * HiDPI (x1 carbon): I think this is actually decent in kde/gnome/unity (?), but it's pretty terrible in most GUI apps in my minimal setup. After some fiddling chromium is fine and I generally simply don't use GUI apps otherwise, and when I do it's still usable if not great. Retina screen and OS support was the primary thing that kept me on a mac. (edit: terminal and chrome look great so I'm happy) * Miss a few apps: Quiver, Artful, Dash * I still keep my mac around just in case, but haven't needed it yet. * Touchpad: nothing touches a macbook (although I'm not jazzed about the huge new one), on the other hand the X1 Carbon's is actually quite good. oh, and I use Manjaro-i3 [1] -- I've been there, done that with setting up Arch from scratch...highly recommended. 1: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-i3-16-06-16-06-1/3329 https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-i3-16-06-16-06-1/3329