I have one of each (Windows, Linux, Mac). On the whole, I don't find any dramatically superior. PC laptops do have a race-to-the-bottom. Even top-of-the-line l

I have one of each (Windows, Linux, Mac). On the whole, I don't find any dramatically superior. PC laptops do have a race-to-the-bottom. Even top-of-the-line laptops are luck-of-the-draw. Lenovo is far more scammy than IBM ThinkPads of the golden age. I think the idea is you need to be 5% better than the competition to control the high-end market, and they cut quality until they hit that. Apple quality is much more consistent. But with PCs, although really good laptops don't exist, you can build a perfectly fine desktop. Windows has become surprisingly usable with WSL. It's also actually more stable than Linux or MacOS now. MacOS periodically stalls out using all CPU until my mouse pointer locks up, for reasons I can't fathom. Linux runs into oddball issues with complex device setups. Windows just works for me. On the other hand, Windows is trying to become a SaaS, and seems to collect a ton of data, do hostile updates, and really wants to show me ads. For now, I've disabled all of that, but it's gotten harder to do so. If it goes further that direction, it might stop to be usable. Linux has been going down the tubes the past few decades, but isn't bad yet. Complexity has grown, and stability has fallen, but it's still simpler than MacOS or Windows. I can understand and tweak the system. I'd never e.g. run a server on MacOS or Windows. Too much stuff going on behind the scenes. On the whole, I find myself gravitating towards: * Linux for software engineering, math, servers, or similar -- places where I do things by hand and want a lot of control. * Windows for video conferencing, video editing, graphic design, and similar (which is odd, since this is Mac's classic strength, but I'm finding Windows to work better now). * MacOS for general-purpose computing (e.g. writing documents, making a presentation, or browsing the web). It excels at normal things.