Not from my experience. Linux does run better than Windows tends to on old HW, sure, but comparing that experience to macOS on new hardware is less than fair.

Not from my experience. Linux does run better than Windows tends to on old HW, sure, but comparing that experience to macOS on new hardware is less than fair. There's plenty of new hardware Linux runs great on, I am not sure what you call "experimental" hardware, but I am using a Surface Pro 7 as my main machine with exclusively Linux on it, no problems. Any recent standard ultrabook should also work fine, heck I even have a random, no-name Chinese UMPC that works well.