I'm a long-time Mac user who made the switch back to FreeBSD and Windows at the beginning of the year due to my disappointments with the direction the Mac has g

I'm a long-time Mac user who made the switch back to FreeBSD and Windows at the beginning of the year due to my disappointments with the direction the Mac has gone since Tim Cook took over. I started thinking about switching away from the Mac after the October 2016 release of the touch menu MacBook Pro, but what took me a while to switch was wrestling with leaving macOS, which has been (and still is, at least until Mojave) my favorite desktop operating system. However, what pushed me toward finally switching to PCs was (1) the increased iOS-ificiation of macOS starting with Catalina, plus (2) my desire for user-upgradeable hardware. While I'm satisfied with my FreeBSD (with KDE Plasma as my desktop)/Windows dual-boot situation, neither KDE nor Windows are my ideal desktops. For the past few years I've been doing a lot of thinking about what I'd like out of an operating system and what would be a compelling alternative to macOS even in its heyday. I'm working on a side project called MallowOS (http://mallowos.com/ http://mallowos.com/) that is my vision of an ideal workstation OS and could be thought of as a "retrofuturistic" operating system had some of the visions of Xerox PARC researchers, the Apple's Advanced Technology Group, and Lisp hackers (among others) been realized. Other operating system projects I'm paying close attention that are even more macOS-inspired than my system are helloSystem (https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/ https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/) and rayvnOS (https://airyx.org/ https://airyx.org/). I hope these projects gain traction so that way they become solid options for long-time Mac users who are disappointed in Apple's direction but who want to use a familiar interface with applications designed with familiar UI/UX guidelines.