If you're asking that question, you probably won't like macOS. Much of the appeal lies in its defaults, which are pretty good – but you can't change many of them, including lots of things that are bog-standard on Linux, you can't even fine-tune animations (there is a toggle to tone them down, but that's all – two global settings)

That also means you don't have to worry about your OS or machine much – I've sunk many times as much time into occasionally trying to run Linux than I ever have into running macOS, which by comparison is very, very hands-off, "just works", as the moniker goes.

That said, there are experimental window managers that some people run, but it's really not anything I would recommend. If you need i3 and want it configured just-so, you're probably going to suffer. I use Hammerspoon to get some really simple tiling, but it's not even in the same solar system as i3.