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It's been fun, MacOS, but it looks like our time is drawing to a close.

With competitive, affordable AMD hardware and better GPU support, both WSL and Linux (KDE Plasma) offer compelling competition.

The only rebuttal from Apple being extra padding on the UI, so it seems like I am no longer your target audience.

Fair well, it was a beautiful, cohesive experience while it lasted.

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Was thinking about jumping ship but:

- MacBook Air is still lovely (once ahem I had keyboard fixed)

- Basic productivity tools on Linux - eg email or word processing - still suck and I want native apps for such things.

Any solution?

For email and word processing, it depends on what you've previously used. I would say that LibreOffice is quite all right for word processing. Also have a look at FreeOffice (https://www.freeoffice.com/en/) which aims for great compatibility with MS Office.

For an email client, I personally use the GMail web client nowadays, but I've used Thunderbird for a long time and it's fine (not as polished and good looking as Mail.app on MacOS though).

Why is it free? What's the catch?

Ads, premium features?

Geary and google docs

Bigger padding around UI elements is literally my biggest annoyance with Big Sur. (and still, missing subpixel rendering, hence staying on 10.11 here)

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