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I believe that this is a much more subjective thing than it’s often presented as. macOS is where all of my work gets done. I can make Linux work if I have to with enough beating and banging (not the smoothest process), but I would go mad if I had to be productive under Windows. It’s why on my machines Windows is relegated purely to game duty.

I have used and use all three. I find Windows, despite annoyances and annoying trends particularly with their "Apple-fication" of the Control Panel, still to get out of the way the most. macOS can't even adjust volume or brightness of non-Apple monitors, which is an intentional move by Apple. macOS is absolutely full of arbitrary limitations and hidden things. Windows is much better for hardware interaction.

To me things like third party monitor control are easily fixed[0] papercuts compared to things like the inadequacies in Windows’ virtual desktop implementation (e.g. can’t switch desktops independently per monitor).

[0]: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

I can recall once or twice where an application broke in my decade of having Apple products. The hyperbole isn’t needed.

Then you don't use audio products.

> because you can actually use your computer as a computer

This is such a vague and pointless argument that somehow manages to mean absolutely nothing at all. What defines "to use a computer as a computer"?

Do you mean to say that all of the things I do day-to-day on a Mac (like software development, communication, media consumption, life organisation) don't count?

You're never going to find a computer that satisfies absolutely everyone but there are plenty of computers out there that satisfy many people's expectations of what a computer should do or be.

It's a metaphor.

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