Not many ux savy people in OSS and there is no single vision being implemented. It's a bunch of people with different ideas trying to agree with each other. I

Not many ux savy people in OSS and there is no single vision being implemented. It's a bunch of people with different ideas trying to agree with each other. I would say the main problem is that people are mostly Devs and they care more about implementing "this one thing" for themselves instead of thinking about users. It makes sense, it's OSS, you can't expect people to work for free. KDE somehow gets a lot of things right functionally but the design of the default theme contains very basic mistakes (eg. padding) and several interactions are cumbersome and seems to be there solely to justify tech work that someone wanted (eg. activities widgets and panels on the desktop). I think the pinnacle was KDE 3. Gnome 2 actually got a lot of things right but was very low on features. They threw away a lot of it with Gnome 3. That said, I find Mac OS to be pretty bad, UX wise, I generally install Arch Linux + KDE on my Mac devices. In terms of functionality, if you have supported HW you won't have many problems. Distro take a bunch of terrible decision for political reasons (eg. adopting pulseaudio and systemd as standards) and those are generally the things that will hurt you - but that won't be that much worse compared to your typical Mac OS upgrade (eg. removing python2 in Monterey - who the f approved that?). I wish there was a company developing a paid OS that works with a custom UI, I would definitely pay for that. Maybe one for the system76 people or similar.