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I feel like something like Fedora fits the bill: great, reliable, well-maintained repositories, decently updated kernels, yet never faced any major issues, and access to quite updated packages. Only issue is Red Hat caused a stir recently, though I still believe Red Hat does more good than bad in the open source community.

macOS on the laptop (Apple Silicon is amazing!) and Fedora on the desktop. Just moved Windows 11 to a separate disk to rot. Finally all-UNIX!

Apple has always been greedy, in my opinion, but seldom evil.

They are the only major corporation that still makes an effort for privacy (though many people are understandably very skeptical) e.g.

• fully end-to-end-encrypting most of your iCloud data,
• blocking tracking pixels in Mail (not technically correct, but good enough approximation)
• having iCloud Private Relay (something like Tor network) built into Safari
• blocking tracking of your behaviour by anonymising your device
• they even scramble data about your Maps trips, inserting wrong information before they send analytics back to themselves, through what is called differential privacy.

Other reasons I use iOS:

• They offer software updates for >6 years, so I really get great bang for my buck. Total cost of ownership is typically less than other flagship products.
• Integration with their other products.
• General polish, smoothness and ease of use.

I too rely on governments to rein in their greediness (e.g. Right to Repair, having multiple App Stores, etc.)

Same! I use all 3, and Mac is my primary platform, I have a more powerful x86-based Fedora computer I use for gaming, and as a Visual Studio Code remote SSH machine and I have to sometimes boot into Windows for incompatible software/games.

Agree that Windows is the worst, and that Apple seems to be having macOS die by a thousand cuts (experienced many bugs, but they do tend to be fixed quickly with or without me reporting them, bigger issue is them removing options that were available via plists).

Fedora, however, seems to have a bright future, but there are still too many bugs/inconsistencies for me to use it on a daily basis.