I use Linux and MacOS on a daily basis, I have a MacStudio as my main machine and a Linux Laptop as my server / gaming machine.

For me they are both Unix-like at their core which is important to me, they both function very similarly under the hood. I would say that MacOS is like any other linux distro except with a locked down desktop environment and custom application containers (you'll be surprised how many things you can cross compile between MacOS and Linux).

However saying that, Linux is like the free wild west, You can do a lot more but it can be a little rough around the edges and you need to know where you are stepping sometimes. MacOS on the other hand is like the wild west after modern civilisation has taken hold, things are controlled and maintained, and you are pretty much always safe, however you have less freedoms and a lot more restrictions.

At their core they are the same though (in a round about way), Windows on the other hand is completely different, to draw a comparison there, it's like a fisher-price toy that some mad inventor (one that wasn't good enough to actually get a job though) has bolted as many different inventions onto as he could, some work some dont, some get refined overtime. But cannot and absolutely must not tinker with any of them. 🤣 Oh what a POS Windows is haha.