I switched from Mac to Linux a while ago. I compare the experience to living at home vs living in a hotel [1]: In a hotel (on Mac), everything is designed and cared for. But there's always an external agenda so you can't bring your own furniture. When you live at home (on Linux), it's less seamless and you need to do the dishes. But it's truly yours.
And how did you manage the switch from the trackpad?
It works well enough out of the box. Initially, I set up Mac-like gestures. But now I just use the track pad normally. (I should add though that in everyday use I use a mouse, external keyboard and monitors.)
I'd compare with a house. A hotel is stuffy and has no room for expansion. You build whatever you want in your house.
Indeed; just like with a house, on Linux things are always breaking.
My best analogy: buying a car from Lexus and taking it in for service every few years vs. building a car in your garage from plans you found on the Internet.
Unless you're running arch linux is pretty stable these days. I can't even remember when I last had to fiddle with my debian install.
> I moved from (insert robust os here) to (insert meme linux distro here).