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Eh, I have a MB from work and I'm still an unrepentant Mac hater. All the badass hardware in the world won't save you from crippled software. MacOS will never be keyboard friendly and "MacOS UNIX" will never hold a candle to real Linux.
This is just not correct. Keyboard support in particularly is a checkbox or two in prefs, and then you have out of the box support for mapping/remapping any menu command, remapping mod keys, text expansion macros, remapping all kinds of OS controls like spotlight/mission control, etc, easily typing your favorite symbols like º or ® just by holding a modifier... Toss in Keyboard Maestro and Raycast/Launchbar/Alfred, and you're going to have difficulty finding any GUI OS that handles keyboards as well.
This is another just purely nonsense statement. "Real" Linux is itself an open source reimplementation of Unix, more or less, and macOS is posix compliant. Idk what this comment is even supposed to mean - open a terminal, install whatever packages you like, carry about your day. I've had to spend a significant amount of time in linux/macOS terminals, and in practice all that I usually have to remember is which package manager I have to use or whether it's bash/zsh.
Does this mean
brew install nvidia-driversworks for you?"Posix compliant"? I'm not sure you fully understand the gap here. Linux has containers, performant and feature rich virtualization, robust networking, user friendly GNU utils, case sensitive filesystems, etc. It's not stuff you can duct tape on by recompiling Linux tools and be all set. You're trying to keep up with a Ferrari using a Fiat.
Apple hasn't shipped with an Nvidia GPU in like a decade, and has only shipped a machine that can add a third party GPU twice in as long, so I am going to guess no? I'm not sure what the point of this comment even is? If I can find a package you can't install on linux do I win the argument? And of all things in the world you want to count as a win for Linux, you're going with Nvidia drivers? Lol.
Most of the rest that you're describing are also mostly optional packages on most Linux distros/macOS or things you're just getting wrong. Case-sensitive filesystems on macOS are an option. You don't think macOS has containers, virtualization, robust networking or can't use GNU utils? You don't know what posix compliance is, and you're trying to convince me that GNU utils, many/most of which likely existed before Linux somehow can't be "duct-taped" on.
It's entirely clear you don't understand the gap. Linux is a kernel. All of the things you're describing are packages or pieces of software that are going to differ from distro to distro. Most of coreutils ship in macOS out of the box. All of the things you count as wins are easily added on macOS (where they aren't out of the box already.)
like, you can just say "I don't like macOS." This set of comments read like "Well all of Linux is garbage because Mint doesn't ship with Solitaire, a game and program invented by Microsoft."