What Windows or Linux features would improve MacOS?

[Boyd01]

you mean showing the full path? or just accessing the full path? the latter you can do by control-clicking the name in the finder window title.

The finder shows the full path at the bottom of the window (may be an option that you have to set for this, don't remember). Right-clicking on that offers various options

Or you can open a terminal session and just drag any individual folder into the window. That will insert the full unix path into any command, no typing, copying or pasting involved.

True that Windows is different with a web browser style address at the top, but personally I don't like that very much. So, I'm good with MacOS and the underlying unix operating system when it comes working with files. Now, all bets are off if they changed this in Tahoe (or whatever), I'm still on Monterey.

 

[Bmju]

I would trade it for PC hardware that could legitimately run MacOS in a heartbeat

Why?! If you're comparing Apple Intel to PC Intel then fair enough - but it would be less clear (to me, at least) why PC hardware is 'better' than Apple silicon. Depending on exactly what you want, ofc - e.g. if you want the cheapest possible or the most configurable possible, then I guess non-Apple Intel kind of wins, but (compared to Apple silicon) at the expense of being slower and hotter. IMO. Happy to hear the counter-argument!

 

[maflynn]

However talking with PC people, their perspective is the opposite. To them, the only reason to buy a mac would be the hardware,

My opinion is that by and large Apple hardware is so much superior to what's out there in the PC world, particularly for laptops. AFAIK, there's no PC laptop that offers the same level of performance with a high degree of power efficiency.

PC laptops, you can get a really fast machine, but to get the performance you have keep it plugged in, or get a laptop that can run all day but not have much performance. Things should be changing as more ARM processors make it into the market. Then there's Windows and how it performs on an ARM machine. Microsoft has tried a number of times to get windows to run well on ARM and they largely failed - this time around however things seem to be trending positively.

I would trade it for PC hardware that could legitimately run MacOS in a heartbeat

There's a segment of people who have bemoaned the move to Apple Silicon with wailing and gnashing of teeth. I myself preferred intel Macs simply so I could have a dual boot machine

Apple Silicon has too many advantages over X86 hardware however - more so in 2025, when Nvidia (and lessor extent AMD) over price their mid and upper tier GPUs - 5070 TIs are 800 to 900, 5080s are over 1,000 and 5090s are in the 3,000 dollar range. Then there's the power draw for those desktop GPUs so much so that new plugs had to be adopted and those tend to melt and catch fire

The state of X86 hardware is such that it was one of the driving factors for me to get a Mac Studio.

 

[iBookmaster]

Maybe this is not from Windows or Linux but, would love to be able to download an English language only version of the operating system. Meaning no extra languages and those awful, bloated foreign fonts.

 

[JackAHyde]

I second whoever else said more advanced window management. If I could reliably handle my apps and open windows within macOS the exact same way I could on Hyprland from my Arch Linux machine (complete with hiding the window controls to minimize/maximize/close), I think it would be far more compelling for my liking. I'm a huge fan of autotiling and managing more with keyboard shortcuts. While I do use Amethyst on my more modern macOS systems to autotile windows, I feel it's a bit lacking compared to a native solution.