It's been fine for me and available on every device I've seen the last 3 years, and sometimes wonder what the actual tangible difference to a user is between it

It's been fine for me and available on every device I've seen the last 3 years, and sometimes wonder what the actual tangible difference to a user is between it and OS X's Unix underpinnings, other than OS X needing a incessant parade of permission dialogs due to it. But I bet it's not great if you tried doing ex. like media production?