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Coming from a 2014 MBP the trackpad is a HUGE downgrade (not nearly as responsive), macOS is for sure getting worse on each generation too. Other than these are pretty good.

A side note: I've been wanting to move to linux, the only thing stopping me is the local music management & mobile syncing workflow, if anyone have any recommendation

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Okay same situation right here. Seriously, if anyone has suggestions especially for the mobile syncing workflow with linux I would love to hear them. The seamless message-notiifcation experience with Apple is what holds me hostage.

Apple do this quite nicely. I don't have mac equipment, but I see the integration is good where the grass is greener. In linux it is replicated using the websites for messages(android)/whatsapp/telegram and signal has an app.

When I used to have an iphone (4s days), I loved the move to android (pixel) which gave me so much freedom. Cloud apps weren't restricted to Apple PCs (I think this has changed now), and I could just plug into my linux laptop and just drag and drop files to read on a journey. Also tethering always worked nicely on linux.

Have you tried KDE Connect? Despite the name, it doesn't require KDE

> the trackpad is a HUGE downgrade (not nearly as responsive)

Finally, someone pointed this out. But again majority of people aren't picky about keyboard, key distances or Trackpad for some reason.

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