This is great! Rare to see FreeBSD with a GUI focus. Unfortunately I'm more likely to check out Macbuntu (which I didn't know about before) than try to replicate his setup.
There are many many things that makes life in macOS better than Unix/Linux, not least having Cmd-XXX that don't clash with Ctrl-. I love being able to use Emacs keybinding in nearly all text fields on Mac whereas on Linux they control the app and I feel my hands tied as I seek the cursor etc keys. The more my Linux environment can mimic macOS, the more time I'll spend there.
Sorry, I got a little discombobulated with your life in macos is better than unix/linux comment, but only because macos is unix. Thus life is better because macos is unix - unix with an excellent window treatment, no less.
If you are HN, you are expected to be able to understand that we all know that macOS is Unix and any reference to Unix/Linux means non-macOS. I contributed the first SCSI driver to Linux 0.12 so I've been around. Calling macOS "window dressing" doesn't suggest deep insight nor working experience with macOS.
The fact is that my professional working experience with daily driving macOS is, in my opinion, a nicer experience that the equivalent Gnome/KDE (though it goes deeper than that). Still I spend a roughly equivalent amount of time there (and some in FreeBSD).
There are many many things that makes life in macOS better than Unix/Linux, not least having Cmd-XXX that don't clash with Ctrl-. I love being able to use Emacs keybinding in nearly all text fields on Mac whereas on Linux they control the app and I feel my hands tied as I seek the cursor etc keys. The more my Linux environment can mimic macOS, the more time I'll spend there.