I've been using Linux on the desktop for decades at this point. KDE Plasma is my current favorite and I've been using it for a few years now. It has everything you'd want in a desktop (maybe a bit more), looks great, and is very fast even on modest hardware.

My current job has me using MacOS on an M3 Pro Macbook and I find it barely tolerable compared to KDE. Usually when I want to do something new or change some configuration, either there is no way to do it, or it's hidden behind some key combination that I never would have guessed. I would describe the overall feel of MacOS as "syrupy." When using the mouse or typing, there is almost always some kind of barely-perceptible latency. Nothing is ever crisp and instant. (This isn't specific to this machine, it feels the same way on every Mac I've borrowed.) It's sort of like someone decided that the only way to make it smooth was to also make it slow.

It really isn’t. There are a great many people who use macs for work but who do not like Apples design choices. And that number has skyrocketed even further since Liquid Glass was pushed onto people.

In fact one of the front page articles today is literally calling macOS “ugly” in the title.

I don't want KDE but I would much prefer gnome to macos desktop, I think it's both prettier and more functional, and that's not a tahoe thing. I hate finder too, and don't see any way to properly use an alternative.

Go through my post history and you'll see I've been saying the same, or similar, for years :)

Plasma can be configured to rhyme with macOS' GUI. Not as in shitty macOS themes, but button placement, docks, global menus, widgets, Spotlight, Stage Manager, hot corners, keyboard shortcuts, Preview in Finder, etc.

I have Plasma configured to take advantage of my decade+ of macOS muscle memory without having to put up with Finder and the abysmal task-switching and window management experience on macOS.

Whenever I have to use macOS, I am reminded of how much better Plasma is. I'd might even buy a Mac again if I could use it instead of the default UI.

I was given the latest MacBook Pro at my new job not long ago, but I forced them to exchange it for Alan HP laptop just so I could use Linux on it. Unfortunately it's Ubuntu and not Plasma, but even so I'm happy I don't have to use Apple's software.

Sir I’m here stuck on somewhat workable Sonoma, dread the day enterprise IT forces the push of Tahoe and would take a kde box in a heartbeat.

Similar opinions are voiced in about every recent macOS UI thread, and even occasionally in Windows threads.

not sure about the looks but I also find KDE much better in usability

I mean Apple hasn't done itself any favours with Macos Tahoe.

To be honest, I agree a little bit because I remember from my time at customizing KDE that everyone wanted it to make it look like Mac OS

but it feels a bit of peer-pressure/cool-factor, people used to like how Mac OS look but after Tahoe, I feel like most people don't.

To be honest, I am on mac right now but I really like Niri/Hyprland and to a degree KDE as well. I definitely feel like those were immensely more customizable and I miss that customizability, even if some people might use that customizability to make it look like MacOS default.

Linux has good support for m1 and m2, so for newer devices running a custom desktop would be neat.