So, I have an iPhone, which I like, but we use Windows and Linux computers in our household. I’d never seen a Mac boot up until the other day after a friend gave me their old Mac Mini. I was excited to check it out, got it all set up and logged in – but it really just seemed like a giant iPhone regarding what it did and could do (meaning, I would just stick with Windows and Linux for our computing needs, rather than swap over to the Mac). I was disappointed.
What am I missing?
The Mac runs a full Unix OS, so it can do literally whatever you want. You can’t write the read only memory partitions, and apple doesn’t let you customize the UI much, but aside from that you can do anything.
The biggest restriction will be gaming, because apple has not supported many graphics libraries other than their own for a long time.
Most Linux things work fine, you can run windows in a VM with good performance and many games will work fine.
What do you want to do that you feel you can’t?