macOS has far better desktop applications across the board than Linux. What you get for free with a Mac is nothing to sneeze at:

Counterpoint: The apple of yore is not the apple of today.

Recent examples:

• https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
• https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html
• https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
• etc...

At this point, the beginner-friendly linux distros (Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Bazzite) are more sensible and logically consistent than either Windows or MacOS.

Tangent: If you're looking at paid git clients on MacOS, I'd recommend fork over Git Tower or Kaleidoscope.