[veqz]

My personal experience is that it's been like this for years already. I'm mostly using laptops (Dell XPS at the moment) with some Ubuntu-derived distro with KDE Plasma on top, bluetooth peripherals, external monitor, and external USB-connected drives, and it all just... works.

Other people are reporting less good experiences, of course, so anecdotes aren't worth too much.

I think the real answer is that macOS runs on very specific hardware, and as such it is much easier for Apple to make sure every part works together. Buying a laptop designed for Linux (or even better: a specific distro) would probably be similar to a general macOS experience.

[croutonwagon]

And even then they struggle. macOS has plenty of bugs. It’s nowhere near as stable or reliable as say IOS.

[tmikaeld]

They're pushing too many new features every year and the switch to ARM must have been a huge rewrite on top of that..

Really don't envy the pressure those devs must be under.

[Thristle]

90% of new MacOS are in their bundled applications and not in the OS itself.

Arm and x86 is probably a huge pain though.

[rbreaves]

It used to be.. 10.4-10.6 were amazing. No question better than any Linux desktop at the time.

[bitcuration]

Therefore it's not a problem of technology, but how to manage broader industry partnership, creating standards. Microsoft did it in its earlier days when there is a limited number of OS competitor. That window of opportunity has passed. Nobody can repeat MS Windows just like nobody can recreate ebay or facebook.

Contrary to the popular illusion, Apple is a hardware company, they've never positioned or good at making general purpose OS. Apple dominated by making hardware and "firmware" that exploits their hardware. A completely different lane of making.