MacOS is Unix-certified and borrows a lot of BSD while Linux is from scratch. The Linux kernel, SystemD, and emacs don’t conform to the first tenet of Unix philosophy: “Design programs to do one thing well. This leads to the creation of simple, modular tools that can be combined in complex ways to accomplish more intricate tasks”.

Anyway, it should stand on it’s own merits instead of its users grasping at another OS’s success. -Especially in light of that OS being tethered to limited hardware and expandability as well as dismal gaming support.