It’s somewhat ironic that Windows users used to call Macs “toy computers”. Now most deeply technical people are using Macs or at least Linux or BSD and Windows is relegated to games. It seems Windows is for toy computers ;-)
They all gave up on that trainwreck of an OS, and either their final Mac died and they replaced it with an even better laptop by a different vendor (Framework, et al), or they still own a Mac but it now runs Windows or Linux (and when that one dies, it will be their last, and they will become post-Mac, too). I know exceptionally few tech people with M1, and they bought it knowing they had to suffer the rough edges of Asahi; I do not know a single tech person who bought an M1 and left OSX on it.
The number of Macs in existence only goes down, not up; doubly so in the tech world.
I don't get why theres a few people on HN that persist in the FUD+FOMO combo that OSX is gonna make a comeback and win because "its a Unix!" and "Apple takes security seriously!" and "Safari is world's best browser!" and "Swift is a great language to code in, even if it doesn't work on other OSes!" and "I use XCode unironically!"
Just stop already, we've all heard it. Repeating it doesn't make it true.
You should realize “I don’t know people who do X” is a very weak argument.
I've gone so far as to deploy M1 Mini's in factory environments to run production processes for very large scale printing operations (think Amazon, Walgreens, tons of orders daily) and guess what I haven't been called in over a year because it is all rock solid.
Better news, installing Windows on Intel Macs improves battery life under common use cases.
Best news, Linux on that same Mac is even longer.
Hilariously, as much as Chromebooks suck, there are many Chromebooks that have half the Wh of M1/M2 99Wh Macbooks, cost half as much, and meet or exceed battery life under common tasks (implying they're both twice as efficient per watt, and twice as efficient per dollar). These Chromebooks can run Linux, and aren't stuck with ChromeOS.... so if you're really into ultra-thin laptops with excessive battery life, well, they're an option.
I also semi-recently saw a review for the LG Gram 17, an Intel laptop that has 3/4th the Wh of Macbooks, yet has the same battery life in common tasks, and a 17 inch (!) screen; costs about the same as a Macbook. So, even with the Intel CPU holding it back, its keeping up with those Macs.
So yeah, Apple hasn't kept up with the battery life game at all, another myth cranked out by the FUD+FOMO Apple PR machine.
OSS is alive and well in the enterprise!
For instance shadow rights / MIM / PAM does not to my knowledge have an OSS equivalent.
Windows Hello for Business is the only moderately secure take on biometric auth into kerberos that I have heard of.
LAPS is the only secure, native LDAP take I have heard for managing root passwords, which fills a big compliance need for a lot of orgs.
And there is quite a lot about GPO that works wonderfully when paired with sssd, e.g. access control.
Only Samba implements part of the above. OSS has a way to go, yet.
To be clear, AD never has, never was, and is incapable of being “just LDAP”.
Unless you absolutely must play ea games then even that can be done on linux rather nicely.