started using a Mac as my personal machine recently after exclusively using linux for 20 years and one of the most surprising things has been that the options for creative software (making vector graphics, fonts, etc) on Mac really are much better in many cases

feels like one of those things that everyone knows but I never really internalized

(do not lecture me about the options available on Linux, I promise I know)

also i should say that using a mac has been hard for me, after using linux for 20 years there are a lot of things from Linux that I really miss (like package management, strace & friends, native container support).

I really understood how my linux system worked and I miss that.

it makes a lot of other things harder and I still haven’t found solutions i’m happy with for many of them. The tradeoff is worth it for now though

(again, not looking for advice.)

@b0rk
If you do figure out how to do strace-like things on macOS I would love to see something like "here's this strace blog post / comic but in macOS"! Diving in is really intimidating and there's a lot of different advice out there that is only sometimes applicable (the big one is the security changes that Apple did years ago).
@iamed2 i will definitely write about it if I ever figure it out but I don't have much hope