Mac OS is alright but it has it's flaws. IMHO it's not getting better over the years I've used it. The last few releases basically featured a whole bunch of thi

Mac OS is alright but it has it's flaws. IMHO it's not getting better over the years I've used it. The last few releases basically featured a whole bunch of things I neither care about nor use. Anything to do with widgets, i* apps made by Apple, ios integration (I have an Android phone), etc. I couldn't care less. I use it to run a browser + misc development tools. Could I use Linux for what I do? Yes. And I have. Why do use a mac? The hardware. Fast, beautiful, pleasure to use, runs cool, great battery, great screen, amazing touchpad, and they even fixed the keyboard (took them a while). Not a lot not to like about them. I haven't used windows in ages so not going to comment on that. The only thing that appeals to me is that it now does linux better than it used to. But the one thing it had going for it back in the day (games) is now something that Linux does as well via Steam. Which, is why I have a cheap laptop running Manjaro and Steam for some casual gaming. Works great. But the hardware is not great. Microsoft (aside from its niche Surface lineup) is mostly dependent on OEMs for laptops. Apple builds its own hardware and they do a very good job. Other laptops exist but they tend to be compromises on battery, screen quality, performance, touchpads, etc. Most vendors get at least a few of those wrong. Almost all of them ship with mediocre synaptics touchpads. Quite a few insist on bundling screens with unimpressive resolutions, contrast, etc. The cheap Manjaro laptop I have is guilty of pretty much all of that. Mediocrity is the norm for windows laptops. And invariably the nicer ones are close in price to what Apple charges. There are a few premium laptops of course. But even those tend to be compromises. E.g. Lenovo, which some people seem to like and recommend, comes with this weird nipple thing and a cheapo synaptics touchpad with actual physical buttons. Just horrible. Which is probably why most Lenovo users I've seen seem to use a wireless mouse. Neither the nipple thing nor the touchpad is really usable as an input device, apparently. The screens on those things are also not quite what I'm used to (less color, contrast and pixels, wrong aspect ratio). So, if I'm going to spend lots of money, that's not what I'd buy. I might put Asahi Linux on a mac at some point though. I don't think I'd miss OS X that much.