> This felt exactly like using Linux in the early 2000s. In my experience (I have personal machines running all three OSes), macOS has certainly declined over

> This felt exactly like using Linux in the early 2000s. In my experience (I have personal machines running all three OSes), macOS has certainly declined over the last few years, but I would say it just feels like Windows now. Windows has always had the occasional nonsensical problems you had to find an incantation online to solve. Fortunately, the platform (and its pitfalls) are consistent enough across different platforms and users' experiences that it's generally not super hard to find the right fix. The same is usually true for Macs. The thing with Linux, even in 2019, is that most of its problems are sensical in isolation, there are just more of them. If you really know your system you actually have hope of solving them on your own, whereas you're going to have a much harder time finding a magic fix from someone else who had your exact issue, because there's a good chance nobody else has had your exact issue. Pick your poison.