I‘m a big fan of FOSS but it really depends on what you’re looking for. For work I’m completely fine with a Mac because I have a proper terminal and don’t have to deal with windows. It’s a walled garden so I don’t spend any time thinking about what I would do, I just focus on shipping code.

I think the price of Mac Minis and some of the MacBooks is actually competitive for what you get. This is not because I think Apple is good value for money, but because I think other hardware has become so much more expensive.

If you want to run something that you can customize and that’s forever free and yours, Apple is obviously the wrong choice tho

The problem is asking a fundamentally subjective question in a way that presupposes it to be objective truth.

If you instead asked,

What are some advantages that Linux Mint and macOS have over each other?

…you might get more useful answers—from people, that is. AI will just give you what you think you want to hear.

while you're probably looking for some very tangible reasons in a bullet list of how its better, there's really one foundational reason and everything else is a distant second.

Linux (mint or otherwise) is your OS that you use on your hardware. Period. It's not going to tell you how to use it, what is allowed, what is right, or anything of that nature. It's yours. Have at it.

If you have a desktop/laptop, you run Linux.

If you have a Mac, you run OSX.

Im not sure where you’re going with this OP, unless you’re looking for purchasing advice. It’s kinda like asking if a car or truck tire is better, with the answer being “well, do you have a car or a truck?”

LLMs don't "understand" anything. They are predicting what text matches your prompt. If you don't understand what an AI is saying, it's not saying anything

Don’t ask AI things if you don’t understand them and their limitations.

📺 AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway

Linux = Libre

MacOS = Jail

• it's free
• runs on a wider range of hardware
• is more customizable
• can run much windows software with wine or proton
• has a large ecosystem of native software
  • much of it free and open source

The advantage of Mac is it's more widely used and thus more widely supported (for things that are supported at all). You can just buy an apple computer from a trusted source and it'll work. Linux doesn't quite have that yet. If more people move to Linux , you'll find better drivers and stuff.

You're surprised you got bullshit from the bullshit machine?

Better for what? The question in isolation is fairly meaningless.

Why is my chainsaw better than my accord?

It’s not a good question.

Personally I find the MacOS interface to be horrendous. Window management is bad. The Mac apps are always opening my files instead of the third-party ones I designated as default. It's messy.

Other than that my primary concern with MacOS is that you can only run it on insanely expensive, irreparable, unupgradeable, disposable hardware.

It runs on generic hardware so you don't have to pay the Apple tax.

Macos doesn't solve the ownership or customisation of OS problem that windows also has.

Mint does. Don't like how macos does something? Too bad.
Don't like how mint does something? Someone likely already has a package to fix it.

The way AI works, it's likely to pick up on your style. I.e. if you ask with slang words or spelling mistakes, it's going to answer very colloquially. And this translates to meaning... Once you ask "stupid" questions, it's going to mistake that for a creative writing assignment. And I think your question is a bit alike »What's better, oranges or papayas?« That's just a weird question and you'll get a weird answer. Linux and MacOS are very different things. Used by different people for different tasks. None of them is "better" without any context given.

Well, each one has pros and cons. *UNIX (I'm including *Linux and *BSD only, since masOS is technically uses a Unix-like kernel and *BSD code) systems tend to provide more control to the user, as they are Libre Software; however, the code can be rather clunky (especially in GNU+systemd+Linux distributions), and is much less secure.

macOS, on the other hand, is much more restrictive, but much better security (the best out of any desktop OS).