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Isn't the whole Macs don't get viruses thing a myth by this point?

There are a lot more sources for random untrustworthy Windows software than there are for MacOS but that's on the user the same way keeping your OS up to date is.

Windows is shit, but the days where you have to do configuration if you don't use some obscure notebook in one of the most used linux distros is over. I'd say gnome e.g. is pretty close to macos UI wise. There is also Hackintosh if you can't live without it.

As for why I particularly hate apple:

• Bizarre pricing for comparably low tier Hardware (although not really comparable since apple makes their own ARM silicone)
• Bad repairability, including flimsy collabs to produce some overpriced block of metal just to change an jphone battery lol
• Walled garden / closed ecosystem. Blocking third party apps for users "security". All this green bubble / blue bubble bullshit.
• productivity and design wise alright machines, but utter trash when it comes to gaming.

There are surely more / other points to make.

It's mainly the terrible anti-consumer decisions of Apple that everyone dunks on, such as lack of repairability, lack of consumer choice, charging a fortune to change a single $1 chip, and being unable to run programs downloaded from anywhere but the app store.

They don't contribute code back to the community and make billions in profit to the detriment of furthering the human species with their concentration of wealth and minimal innovation (since Jobs died).

You can't upgrade ram or a hard drive. If you sell me a computer, charge $100 per 4 gigs of base speed ram, even more for storage, than have the audacity to tell me I can't upgrade it myself, you can fuck right off.

Every time I offer similar views the responses I get are somewhere along the lines of

But you can run Linux on windows! You can install most of the same tools on windows Just run everything in docker anyway

I’ve been coding most of my life. Usually people don’t understand just how sucky the tool chains are on windows when you step into certain dev work.

If I ever have to setup multiple python virtual envs again I’ll fucking just quit. Pipenv. Virtualenv. Poetry. Every fucking one on windows has been riddled with bugs

Several reasons:

1. Almost all of their products target the high end market (and even then, they are known to make stupid decisions to cut off high end use cases).
2. OSX tends to be opinionated on certain settings and it is hard (or impossible) to change them.
3. Many of the built in software only work if you exclusively use Apple products.
4. Apple simps.

Sorry I want a well-managed UNIX system with a nice GUI while not coding?

Linux with KDE.

Because they're such a heavily walled garden.

It's great for my parents who know nothing about technology and computers. They just need to go online and check emails and social media.

My dude, if you find you need to "babysit" Fedora or Ubuntu, I'm kind of doubting your tech literacy - i.e the basic level of tech literacy you need to operate macOS or Windows with.

And also, just because something is UNIX doesn't make it good. Shout outs to HPUX.

Also, Apple is tracking you on macOS and iOS, similarly to Google and Microsoft. They call it telemetry, but are you SURE they don't collect identifying information and canvas you?