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> For me that is another reason it works well for me, I’m all apple and I am definitely dependent on that ecosystem for my sanity.

Yes and that's Apple's goal of course, they are a hardware company. They want to sell as much as hardware as possible so they have no incentive to make things cross-platform.

I really lamented this while watching the keynotes. New features in Messages, things like iCloud keychain. Cool, but if I can't access it in Linux, Android or Windows, what's the point? Also, almost none of my contacts are on Apple's ecosystem and this means that any collaborative / messaging functions are also irrelevant. Here in Europe nobody uses iMessage.

In the end with every new release I could strike out most of the new features due to being not applicable and I was left with changes that I hated, very often changes to existing features meant to accommodate new ones. For example the way the new virtual desktops work was meant to accommodate the new full screen and split screen modes.

Another thing that bothered me is the way Apple pushes battery life. On my work Mac Mini I have set it to never sleep but still when I haven't used it for a few hours and go back to it, I can see everything playing "catch up" and being slow for the first few minutes. I think they call it "App Nap". For some apps I don't care but for others like Outlook (Apple mail is not allowed for work) I want them to be always be up to date. Apple make it very hard to turn this off. I'm sure they do this because they want to advertise huge battery lifetimes. But battery life is a non-issue on a Mac Mini. Energy saving is a bit of a thing but I'm willing to spend that little bit of power (because really it's not a lot) to have a responsive system when I go back to it.

It was stuff like this that bothered me more and more. Apple decides and you just have to go with it. One size does not fit me.

> Hope your control gets you to that nirvana I could never achieve. I’ll be envious.

It did already. It's not perfect but I don't strive for that. But my annoyance is much less than on Apple. I'm much happier with it. Part of it is that I don't expect or even want everything to 'just work'. I have no problem doing stuff in the terminal and in fact I prefer doing certain tasks there. Like bulk renaming files for example.

I don't miss much about macOS as a platform (and I still use it for work by the way). But I do miss some apps like Pixelmator. Gimp is definitely less good in my opinion. In particular I miss the ability to add simple shapes. But I still have to check out some KDE specific apps like Krita.