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Solid analysis as always.

As a Windows user, I'm finding it increasingly harder to justify using the OS. Pretty much every single software I use to get my work done works in my browser.

The only software that runs natively is Ableton, which works perhaps even better on Mac. If I haven't switched, it's simply because of laziness: it would be too much of a hassle to copy all my samples to another device and reinstall all my plugins

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The bigger challenge, if you're a long time Windows user, will be overcoming your own muscle memory. Apple's keyboard layout and shortcuts are similar but different enough to cause problems. It can be quite distracting for instance if you're in the zone and hit the shortcut to replace some text, and then suddenly every window on your desktop disappears!

Biggest problem I have with a mac is the " mark. On a PC (GB keyboard) it's shift-2, on a mac shift-2 is @, and " is shift-'

You can customize your key mappings. I found a dvorak keyboard with esperanto key bindings on the internet. If that exists, I'm sure anything else can be done (assuming you touch type).

Sure, but if you work from machine to machine to machine customisation is fairly terrible.

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