> Every time I go back to macOS, I get frustrated with the inflexibility of it all. I get that it's a pain to feel like you have to customize everything to get something usable for you
It's great if macOS is what you want, or is close enough to it (which it is for many, many people).
I guess people's problem with Linux is that no amount of knob twiddling ever gets Linux's desktop and window manager close enough to what they want.
Personally, I want macOS to be my window manager, and I want Linux to be my dev environment/command line. I can't twiddle either to be close enough to the other, so I run Ubuntu in Parallels on macOS.
Now if macOS gained the equivalent of Windows Subsystem for Linux, I'd be super happy.
I didn't get much of a chance to work with Windows & WSL2, but I felt like it was a really comfortable experience as long as you were fine with WindowsOS as a display manager and Linux for your CLI. There can be some annoyances around software dual installed to Windows and the WSL 'containers', but the CLI experience certainly felt pretty good to me. Used MobaXterm (free, not open) which satisfied the good terminal emulator req.
I personally find windows10 to be one of the most "invasive" desktop experiences that I've ever used. No matter what I do, I can't seem to properly turn off all the bloat and extra notification shipped with it.
I'm sure YMMV but I just have a hard time taking it seriously for anything beyond booting up to play a game. I wouldn't even use it for that if I had a choice and the supported OS landscape was different than it is.
The icing on the cake for me was when I had to edit the registry in order to re-enable the checkbox toggle for booting directly into the desktop. I just wanted to be able to turn on my steam box and be able to boot right into big picture mode on startup but MS had different ideas about what options I should be presented with by default.
It's great if macOS is what you want, or is close enough to it (which it is for many, many people).
I guess people's problem with Linux is that no amount of knob twiddling ever gets Linux's desktop and window manager close enough to what they want.
Personally, I want macOS to be my window manager, and I want Linux to be my dev environment/command line. I can't twiddle either to be close enough to the other, so I run Ubuntu in Parallels on macOS.
Now if macOS gained the equivalent of Windows Subsystem for Linux, I'd be super happy.