[joaogfarias]

I've installed Artix (Arch based) two years ago in a 4 years old laptop. Just had to install a network program, because I didn't want to configure wifi on the terminal. Everything else, since then... No yay -Syyu has caused any issues.

Additionally, you have to consider that macOS and Linux have different purposes. The later is meant to be used to perform computational work. The former is meant to spy on you. Naturally people who want to spy on you will work very hard for you to not have any barriers - whereas Linux people are more focused on empowering you to make more computational work.