> ...how do they compare in terms of UI/UX, app support, responsiveness and overall feel?<p>When you put it in terms of those requirements between macOS and any other Linux distro, there is no such comparison because of the level of UI/UX consistency that macOS has over any Linux distro is not even close.<p>For a Linux distro to achieve this macOS-like consistency, they must have some sort of unified SDK for GUI development or a standard desktop stack for developers to work against. The difficulty here is that the nature of the Linux ecosystem is that the users are free to swap-in/out alternative system components. That's a blessing of freedom for its power-users and a curse for some developers. To some extent, macOS does both but limits which parts of its system can be swapped.<p>This consistency even goes further into the hardware for MacBook users but that would be even more unfair as a comparison.
I use them both regularly. It doesn't. It's simply not even in the same discussion.<p>There are some things you need to use Linux for, and where I need to do those things I ssh into a Linux VM for the most part. The fit & finish of X windows and Linux simply are not there in comparison to OSX.
I use Linux for work and use an iPad for stuff like reading and browsing. The difference is night and day.<p>The UI/UX is the main reason I'd switch to a Mac, if only they were competitively priced and didn't have some horrible glaring flaw.<p>As a longtime Linux user though, it makes me sad that an OS with such potential is probably never going to achieve it because people keep reinventing the wheel rather than solving problems that benefit the entire community.
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