I had to renew my Asus home laptop last June running Windows/Linux. I hesitated between a Linux or MacOS MacBookPro but I finally decided to buy a Dell XPS 13 9

I had to renew my Asus home laptop last June running Windows/Linux. I hesitated between a Linux or MacOS MacBookPro but I finally decided to buy a Dell XPS 13 9380. It costed me 1500Euros (i7 8cores/16Gb/512GbNvme/1080p/Thunderbolt3/IntelGpu920). The MacbookPro with a better screen but inferior keyboard costed 2500Euros... We'll see how long the Dell will last. I am bit worried about the battery. Since then I run Arch with Gnome3/Wayland and everything just works including bluetooth/suspend/usbc dock/etc... except the following: - the fingerprint scanner, there are no Linux driver (even for the Ubuntu version sold by Dell) - Wayland fractional scaling does not really work, everything is blurry, so I don't use it. When my I am disconnected from the external monitor I just type a command to do text scaling... - Battery life is still inferior compared to Windows, especially when I watch youtube videos (I don't use Firefox on Linux because of the lack of hardware acceleration) Compared to MacOSX I find Linux better for development and Ops. All the tools just work, are up-to-date and can be installed from the command line (pacman with the user repositories > brew/cask). For amateur video editing/photo editing, you now have plenty of choice (especially for video). Of course Gnome3 is inferior in term of performance, stability and is less visually appealing. The OS is a commodity nowadays. Well more and more. Many applications can be found for the 3 major OS. That is why more and more OS vendors offer cloud services like backup/security/planning tied to the OS, well integrated and not opened. Also more and more Microsoft/Apple/Google will integrate AI related services tied to your usage and what they know of you, so Linux will not be able to compete in that area.