Honestly I’m really tempted to buy new MacBook Air with the new chip but I have this fear of missing out on linux
I miss using my Mac day-to-day since I started using Linux day-to-day at work. I still have a MacBook Pro, but I barely use it any more as I've tried to limit the amount of time on a computer outside of working hours.
I use Linux Mint with Cinnamon and for the most part, there is a lot of similarity. I use Guake for my drop down terminal like I have with iTerm2 and I use Chrome as my browser just because I've never bothered to transfer my stuff to Firefox.
But I do miss Safari. I truly find it better and faster. I use Bitwarden for password management and it works for both.
But for the most part, they are the same experiences. The true miss is the hardware, the battery life and the keyboard comfort of the MacBook.
I'm on my MacBook now and I get 8 plus hours on a single charge, I can type comfortable on a couch for hours and the trackpad just works perfectly so I never yearn for a mouse.
For work I have a ThinkPad P52 and the Linux support is lacking. Poor Power management allows me to get maybe 3-4 hours of battery, the trackpad sucks and needs a hack to work after kernel 5.4.26 for some reason, sound works but not well and the Nvidia driver sucks (official) glitches all over the place and waking from sleep requires a log out and log in to fix artifacts.
But in all honestly, I'm not sure what I would miss of linux if I only had a MacBook again. There just isn't anything I can do on Linux that I can't do on Mac, but there is plenty I can't do with Linux that I can with a Mac, simple things like airdrop and copy-paste sync with my iPhone, text messages on my laptop. I'm sure if I had an android I might regain some of those things, but it's just all so seamless on Mac OOTB.
I use docker and an Ubuntu image when I need linux to test things. Brew gives me access to almost every linux app I can think of and there is just a better amount of top quality paid and free app on the Mac in comparison to Linux.
Anyway, not sure any of that helps, but that's my 2 cents.
I still run Linux on servers and some old computers (my 2011 MBA runs Linux and is probably sitting next to the sofa).
I don’t miss much. There are some things initially I had that I wanted to recreate.
I missed conky showing me info on the desktop and I tried to use... geektool? for that. But now I just have a widget on the menu bar with system info and I have some scripts I can run that give me whatever else I need easily enough.
Moving OS after a long time, you’ll want to figure how to do things the same way as you’re used to. That’s the only major thing.
But how do I feel? No driver issues, no battery issues, no performance issues.
Honestly, on a laptop at least, there are so many drivers and a MacOS supports theirs great. The trackpad is amazing and I miss it when I use someone else’s Linux machine.
I don’t miss much. The transition was simple. Using homebrew to install the GNU tools is a must but remember this if you build tools to share with other coworkers on macOS. That’s a big one. BetterTouchTool is a must for me.
If you have an iPhone, the integration is great too.
Some commands are different and there are some flags. Some of them aren't really well documented, but if you've used others and keep an eye on the output when installing things, you start picking up on the terms and correlating them to other commands. It's all homebrew beer related, which I don't understand fully, but you start picking it up just by seeing the output.
Linux feels like a breath of fresh air.
Sometimes I do just because of SSD, my Mac have 128 GB space rather then 1 TB in my ubuntu. but that's ok.