[oatmealsnap]

Same experience. I tried, but Linux just isn’t ready to be used as a general OS right now.

I’ve dug through message boards and bug reports, and a lot of the features that MacOS has will never be implemented. I’m taking about features released 13+ years ago on OS X 10.4.

[ryukafalz]

> Same experience. I tried, but Linux just isn’t ready to be used as a general OS right now.

Highly, highly subjective. I use Linux as my main OS and have for many years.

[freedomben]

Agreed. I've used Linux full time on the desktop, laptop, and on the server for over 10 years now and I have a better experience there than mac (which I had to use on my work machine for 6 months due to employer only allowing macs).

Of course everything is not perfect, but that wasn't true in mac either. I had to hack and shim so many things to get my system to behave the way I wanted to. There were also horrible bugs like where plugging in an external (Apple branded) monitor would cause the laptop screen to go black forever until I held down the power button.

[nicoffeine]

I'd be interested in the features that you were missing as well.

I just bought parts for a desktop that's literally 4x cheaper than a similarly specced Mac Pro with the usual caveats (Ryzen instead of Xeon, non ECC, etc.) It will have to be pretty rough for me to consider investing anything beyond a Mac Mini so I can have access to Xcode once my MBP dies.

[vladvasiliu]

In my experience it's mostly "convenience" / "nice to haves" related to "modern things" such as entertainment. Of course, this excludes any specialty software you may need that may be unavailable for Linux, but I suppose that's not your case since you're considering this.

For example changing from a low-resolution (non-hidpi) screen to a hidpi one doesn't work that great. You want to watch netflix or prime video in FHD? Not going to happen (although, admittedly, that's not linux's fault but a DRM-related decision).

I've noticed that, as usual, all this is highly dependent on what one does with the computer. If it's a laptop often used with a high resolution external screen and for on-line media consumption, the experience can be less than ideal. If it's a working computer used in fixed conditions, the experience can be outright great. My "work" computer is a desktop linux with a UHD screen and I absolutely love working on it. But for random hanging around on the internet, watching a movie or whatever, I'll grab my macbook.

[boogies]

> a lot of the features that MacOS has will never be implemented

Care to name any? Other times I’ve heard things like this on HN I’ve been able to locate them.

[mindfulhack]

A big one I will sorely miss as I transition to Linux (and it's the only one I can think of right now), is the ability to rename and move around files while they are open!

OK here's another, very related: the ability to have apps remember their open files when you quit and re-open them.

These are significant productivity boosters, and I will miss them. It's definitely a trade-off, but now Apple has tipped the scales too much in favour of Linux...for me.

[jhasse]

Both of those things work under Linux for me. I guess it depends on the apps?

[mindfulhack]

Can you give examples of which apps you noticed it working for? and what desktop environment/distro? I will most certainly test.

[jhasse]

VSCode and Sublime Text remember the files they had opened. And renaming files while they are played back works fine with mpv.