I'm considered switching to Mac from linux and I came across your blog which has been very informative. What made you chose mac over linux?
It's a perfectly fine decision, but Linux was, and still is, an option for plenty of people who develop for Apple hardware/software without daily driving it, myself included.
Well, I believe in dogfooding. I don't think it would be good for my software or my customers if I didn't use the same operating system as them. Besides, work-related activities are mostly what I use a computer for, so I'm not sure what I would even do with Linux.
Again, full respect for your decisions, but there are consequences to them and as your blog and experience shows, they are numerous and have serious impacts.
You: You'd be more in control over having your passwords silently uploaded to a third party without your knowledge or consent
If I mostly use a computer for work purposes, what do you think my passwords are for?
Also, I've been using a Mac since 2002, and iCloud Keychain got toggled on in 2024. It's kind of absurd to suggest, in 20/20 hindsight, that I should have expected it.
Do your thing buddy, but I'm not the one who had their (work) passwords were silently uploaded to iCloud without permission.
How many times do I have to explain that I use a computer mostly to do work, which is development of Apple software, requiring a Mac, and therefore most of my computer usage is necessarily on a Mac. Consequently, switching to a Linux machine as a "daily driver" is pointless, because I have nothing much to "drive" daily except my work.