macOS has far better desktop applications across the board than Linux. What you get for free with a Mac is nothing to sneeze at:

• a full office suite Pages, Keynote, Numbers, all of which are very nice. - The default PDF viewer has many functions that allow you to edit and modify PDFs easily.
• GarageBand is a full featured DAW that gets you pretty far with music making at home.
• iMovie a super easy and performant video editor.

Sure Linux has replacements for all these, but they aren’t as nice to use, reliable, or fully featured. macOS has tons of commercial and FOSS applications are available as well.

The indie software scene on the Mac is pretty strong. Omni group deserves a mention with their excellent tools. Also applications like Git Tower and Kaleidoscope are such a joy to use and powerful.

Linux attracts lots of programmers, but it’s difficult to make a living by building a good desktop application. I hope that changes.

Linux on the desktop has other strengths, especially since it lacks the enshittyfication that had plagued macOS for a couple of years now.

Microsoft and Apple see disregarding, that an OS should get out of your way and enable you to get stuff done. To them it’s more of an opportunity to seek subscription services.

Linux on the other hand costs no money. That’s a huge advantage, especially when switching.