Comment by extraisland

> My experience over two decades has been that running Linux is like having a car you need to spend every weekend in the garage tinkering with to keep running well. MacOS is lower effort.

It depends. I've been running Debian since 2020-ish. I picked my hardware to run Linux. Nothing much changed for me between Debian 10 and 13 tbh.

> I haven't run Windows in a long time, but compared to Linux, it also doesn't require constant tinkering.

I would say Windows is a bit worse now. I find I have to use Rufus to enable some magic option to able Local user installation (I am not having a MS account), setup choco, install the stuff via choco and then set a desktop background.

> While I also think Linux user experience becomes more and more "it just works", the incentives are such that a commercial experience like macOS is likely to always be a few levels above

Most stuff just does work. If you are running exotic hardware, then sure. But if you have a bog standard desktop or laptop it will work.

The biggest problem with Linux tbh is that if you aren't using Gnome or KDE, the UI is just bit jank in some places.