Gee, I wonder if it's that fact that every time grandma and grandpa go to Best Buy to get a new computer to video chat with the grandkids it's a cheap $500 Windows laptop that Dell/Lenovo/Etc had to purchase an OEM license for? Or maybe its the fact that corporations that run Windows have to buy 1000+ seats at a time to cover all their employees workstations, in house servers, etc, etc. My company alone probably has a couple thousand on file..

Did you pull that from AI like all the rest of your responses too? Do you want to pretend Linux is unpopular too since technically Windows blows that the hell away too as far as 'user adoption' and 'retail sales volume' goes?

 

Many assumptions being made by you about users and their backgrounds that you have absolutely no clue about. For a self-appointed smart person it would seem you should know that. Personally, I have used both *NIX and macos. I do not claim to be of expert class at either one. I basically know enough to be "dangerous", but even at that it does not take a brain-trust to figure out if something is useful to a person or not. Myself and the many others here that are win based use that OS because it is useful, it works and is supported by the industry. As a plus, given a users personal tastes the winOS is capable of being rendered impervious to the prying eyes of the corporate OEM which is a big plus for most win users. I'm not "defending" windows or any other OS. I use it because it suits me.

AppleOS can be considered a *NIX, but how many apple users, to use your vernacular, "actually know the *NIX underside of appleOS"? I'm not taking your tac in proclaiming wide assumptions about apple users, but my guess would be not very many apple folks are expertly familiar with the *NIX underpinning of appleOS. To be quite honest, who really gives a shit in the first place? If it works for the majority of users, who gives a dam whether they use a commodore 64 as long as their workflow demands and system requirements are met.

 

Speaking of older OS's , i have the 2018 mac pro w touchbar and I tried staying on Mojave 10.14.6 for as long as possible but it ended up coming to the point that some of my software wouldnt work and i reallty didnt wanna update it but i ended up going to sonoma...Mojjave was my favorite most definitely.. ...rip..sucks now that they put out like 2 new OS's a year n just add more BS n nothing very useful
definitely use my mac for art / creattivity purposes
I also have a dell precision 5570 i bought refurbished that i havte to use for work programs involving robotics // PLC software ... runs windows 11 but came installed with it....would preefer windows 10 tho but thats on the vm.... i kinda like this dell and i use a script from github that deletes most windows bloatware ... hardest part w this one is trying to stop the automatic windows updates...ive also used a script for that and disabled lots of settings but seems like its nearly impossible to compleely disable it altogether idk lol
i would say .. i like both for what i use them for but i prefer the apple OS because to me its just all around smoother... have always thought that.. but windows is better for i guess office type work or writing documents i think idk...both have their pros and cons like anything out there