Quoting what I read somewhere else, people in both camps just greatly exaggerate the difference between Linux and MacOS. I've been using both for a couple of years and this year I made the full switch to Arch Linux + i3 on a Carbon X1.

Wonderful experience so far. Pretty much the only two things I miss are the wonderful built-in multi-language dictionary and good HiDPI support. That's it. In other aspects it has been much better than MacOS for a developer. Programs even crash much less frequently as well.