For me personally, moving back to Linux has been a huge improvement. Absolutely the only thing I miss from my mbp was having out-of-the-box keymapping of Control to Control and Command to Super, giving me readline throughout the system. I'm sure there's a straightforward way to produce this in KDE, but it'd be nice not to have to monkey with it. Readline is amazing.

Frankly, the tools themselves are quite similar for the web dev that I do, so I can have the same set of tools running on either OS but it's the little utilities that counts.

There may be alternatives in Windows with same quality but haven't looked at Windows other than gaming for a while.

- QR code generator on copy (No you don't paste nor hit the generate button but it produces the code on copy while the app is running)

- Clipboard manager that can search and preview images even. Who can live without a good clipboard manager these days? Losing password you just generated because you copied your user name should be a thing of the past. I heard Win11 finally getting one. Didn't find any good third party ones the last time I looked.

- Trackpad. This is such a good stuff, I just swipe down with my 3 fingers to close any tab/window with customizable gestures. No more hitting the tiny close button and plenty others tailored for each app as if my right hand is a magic wand.

- A good terminal with even better third party one. Windows finally getting Windows Terminal or WSL shell but was a decade late to the entry.

- iOS simulator. It's handy to check how a web site behaves in iOS within your OS.

- Develop for iOS/macOS. For those who do.

And generally the better look throughout than the convoluted structure of Windows app with 10 drop downs in the menu bar, 20 icons below that, with settings hidden under, settings -> advanced -> more.

And it's even worse when it comes to OS setting that is cross buried in the new settings and the control panel that still exists.

I don't get distracted by the OS except for the occasional OS update that would hold me up for 10 minutes.

And the hardware is good too and I guess no one complains Mac is expensive when an Air is like $1k.

Compared to Linux it’s a toss up. Though the Mac UI is miles ahead of standard Linux; you have to spend quite a long time tuning your DE to get something good and even then there is UI consistency across toolkits. The Mac has things like Office, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, more games as well. Linux has better package managers and is more customisable.

Both are vastly better than Windows for development.

The Mac OSX UI is at least as bad as Windows. FFS Finder, guys!

Cocoa is much, much better than anything I have seen on Windows.

Finder is just an application, but the toolkit is pervasive.

Never liked Finder but you can have alternatives like ForkLift and Transmit. I even enabled "Quit Finder" to get it out of my alt-tabbing.