Gentoo Linux vs macOS

You build the package from a source you can see and read. You decide which features you want to build in and which aren't needed. You can choose build options, optimisation and whatever else fancy stuff you want modified. With a binary distribution this simply isn't possible.

Portage is a package management system with a huge amount of options and features.

The usage of advanced features like USE flags makes it more customizable than any binary distribution.

You are free to do whatever you want with it. As a result, its configuration reflects your unique taste and personality.

It's useful for both beginners and professionals. For the installation, Gentoo offers various types, which are referred to as stages. Basically meaning how in depth you would want to go into the process of installation. For beginners it's useful to choose for a starting distro due to its various stages that can be very time consuming but beneficial as you learn the composition in general of Linux.

Since everything is being built on your PC you can fine-tune the code to make use of your CPU. And all it requires is two lines of string variables in a global config.

There are many architectures available for Gentoo : i386, x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC 64, sparc, DEC Alpha, ARM, MIPS, PA-RISC, S390, IA-64, sh, m68k.

Gentoo's default init system is OpenRC. Gentoo also officially supports systemd-free Gnome and udev. Users are free to choose any init system they want.

Provides a whole handbook to refer to during setup and usage.

There are more than 19.000 packages available in the official repository. And even more with overlays.

You get superiority and get called smart daily for going through the processes of punishing yourself to a compile install you also get a cool neofetch logo.

Installation via a Live USB allows you to go back and fix mistakes from it without having to restart the whole installation process.

The UI of Mac OS is rather unrivaled. The smooth, responsive, and cohesive UI makes the system quite joyous to use.

macOS being a UNIX certified system means that you can install a lot more stuff with a lot fewer headaches than if you were on Windows.

There's a large selection of great development tools available for OSX. The operating system itself comes bundled with a powerful terminal emulator, called Terminal. Additionally, Apple provides tools, like Xcode, an IDE that contains a comprehensive collection of tools for developing OSX and iOS software, for free.

It's very similar to a Linux terminal.

Adobe CC, MS Office, Steam games.

Has support for multiple IDEs.

Because it's Unix under the fancy GUI, most open source ports easily to it.

Next to no custom configuration is necessary.

Tower, Kaleidoscope, SourceTree.

For example, Sketch.

Because this is an Apple product, there is a streamlined workflow between your computer and all mobile devices. For example, if you type an a Pages document, once you save, you can open the updated document just moments later on your iPad, and vice versa. The same goes for iMessage, (yes, you can text people with your phone number from your computer. Actually, you can text other people with apple devices with just your Apple ID, with or without a phone number, for free!) Numbers, Notes, Reminders, Contacts, and just about any other Apple workflow application.

This is useful for testing and some development tools that are Windows-only (XML Spy, MapForce).