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by gonehome 1692 days ago
Yeah - I used Arch and other distributions for years and always ended up back on macOS. There are tradeoffs, but on net it's hard to beat macOS especially if you use other Apple devices (plus the hardware has been getting better and better).

It's nice to have things work out of the box and never having to worry about things like hibernate, suspend, battery life etc. Trackpads, display resolution, fonts, random config failures - plus any macOS issue is usually easier to find a real solution for online imo.

Even in this article a ton of stuff seems like a pain in the ass:

- Hacking to connect bluetooth headphones

- Config required to reconnect to wifi

- Config required to get the monitor working

- No good native calendar

And of course at the end suspend/hibernate is still not working (naturally, probably never will work 100%). I'd also guess battery life is pretty bad and the UI of the tiling wm may be missing nice to have things (like accurate battery remaining).