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I've come over from macOS over the past year or ao, and I'm mostly enjoying it. Though it's not quite so critical for me to completely replicate my setup because I do still use my Macbook for stuff.
General purpose computing for work is now handled via a machine running Kubuntu, and broadly speaking I don't miss macOS at all. There are some things that are more awkward (lack of lossless Apple Music without needing WinBoat or Waydroid), and music library software as a whole is nowhere near as...clean...as just using iTunes/Music. As far as I've found so far, that is.
I am having trouble with my radio broadcasting setup though. The way it works on my Mac is I use Mixxx pushed through OBS. I do have a physical mixing board, but it's more for live DJing, so only have faders for the first two tracks. Which is fine because I have an app on my iPad that gives me a bunch of virtual MIDI controls. I'm damned if I can get a Linux equivalent of that to work. In theory my iPad app do it, but in practice I can't get Mixxx to see it. I've tried a few MIDI apps on an old Ssumg tab I have, but have had varying levels of success; none of them good enough for broadcast. It's not massively important though, so I'll keep chipping away until I'm happy with a solution.
Having access to actual, real life, modern gaming is NIIIIIICE though! My computer is my wife's old PC, so it's rocking an Nvidia 1060. Not exactly cutting edge, I know, but it's adequate for the games I want to play. And Proton is SO MUCH NICER to use than Whisky on macOS. For a start, it actually works most of the time. Coming from nearly 20 years of Mac ownership, being able to just play a game without having to jump through hoops is WONDERFUL.
All in all, I'm happy to be finally getting to grips with how Linux can work for me, and don't really mind some of the limitations. I'd rather have friction for free than a seamless experience at the hands of the likes of Apple and Google. Besides which, it's fun trying to figure out how to fix something I might have broken, or how to better optimise something.