I have an odd perspective, because the state of Maine landed some wild kickback-laden deal to supply high schoolers with ibooks in the 2000s. I hated those mac

I have an odd perspective, because the state of Maine landed some wild kickback-laden deal to supply high schoolers with ibooks in the 2000s. I hated those machines. I think they were the very first iteration of OSX. They were locked down with annoying, if not very effective Bess proxy software. Nothing was compatible. Safari blew. Using the old Win95 machine in the computer lab was refreshing. I had the freedom of fucking around with QBasic and then VB6 was envigorating. Then some probably bootleg copies of VC++6 for a year. Completely opened my eyes to all the cool, low-level, hacky shit you could do on windows. I'm sure it helped that this was pre-steam, where the pirate pc gaming system was a thing. So learning to fix busted windows systems was an everyday thing. Mac... eh, i had one game that had a macos9 version I could get to run (Lords of the Realm 1, i think...)