I’m on board that we need to become independent from big tech. As someone who is fond of the Mac user experience, from choosing hardware to how you navigate through apps, I need a guide to make the switch, so if you know of any great guides for Mac users, I’d greatly appreciate it!
Edit: you have all been very useful. I now know a bit more how to start and what it would mean to switch!
Literally the only thing Preview can’t do is edit a PDF. It can do markup and annotation, but not edit the basic structure of the document.
That one program can rotate individual pages, add and remove them, resize them, crop them. You can reorder pages just by dragging the thumbnail around in the side bar. It’s really, really useful.
In my year or so of using Linux I’ve yet to find one program that can replicate everything Preview can do, so I have several that I draw upon depending on my need. It’s little things like that which keep me from fulling abandoning macOS.
Apple are many things, but their history of making software that puts the user first is a huge chunk of why so many people swear by using Apple stuff.