Most of these bullet points could still be done on a Mac. You don't need special permission, or a hacked computer, to do the things the non-apple way. I moved

Most of these bullet points could still be done on a Mac. You don't need special permission, or a hacked computer, to do the things the non-apple way. I moved to Linux 7 years ago from MacOS (and windows before that). As I get older, my patience wanes for dealing with the, half-baked house-of-cards teetering on collapse, Linux ecosystem. I just want something that works better, and took a different direction than the modern versions of Windows or MacOS.