While I have no issues with Apple/MacOS (we own several) or Windows (I think the nit-picking is silly) I still remember what Apple did in the PowerPC transition

While I have no issues with Apple/MacOS (we own several) or Windows (I think the nit-picking is silly) I still remember what Apple did in the PowerPC transition. That left a level of distrust for the company and how it makes decisions. Context is important here. I wasn't running my own business at the time. I was working for a company that had somewhere around 250 Macs and maybe 10 or 20 PC's. What happened? Apple made the transition and, as a result, all software and hardware this company had invested in became obsolete, virtually overnight. We are talking about a non-trivial amount of money and resources. I saw and experienced the pain that caused first hand. From that point forward I always had this in the back of my mind. As I moved to run my own business with limited funds, the last thing I wanted to face was making any investment that could be subject to that kind of a pole-shift effect. Macs, for the most part, were out. It's interesting to see the level of nit-picking people on HN tend to apply to a PC running Windows. I think things change when you are responsible for your own bottom line and have to get practical. There's nothing wrong with the hardware or software. At least nothing wrong enough to be a deal-breaker. The proof? Probably tens to hundreds of millions of companies running all kids of businesses just fine using PC's. Compatibility, long term viability, cost and cost of ownership (repairs!) are far more important than being able to right-click an icon to get a convenient function to work. Microsoft/Windows has always been about long term compatibility. That means things evolve slowly. That's OK. Aside from that, at least in our case, the engineering software we run won't work on anything else. In some industries you have no other options. The Linux question and WSL. I don't understand the complaints. I run multiple Linux virtual machines on any of our powerful Windows desktop or laptops. No issues whatsoever. Some of us dual-boot. Other than Linux hardware and other issues, no problems at all. In fact, we carefully select our hardware during builds (or when buying laptops) in order to ensure the greatest level of compatibility with both Windows and Linux software we use. If there is a solid justification for using an Apple machine, I am all for it. That's why we have several of them. No issues at all. I just don't think the nit-picking is valid or useful any more. If you are in business you just want to get shit done. There's nothing seriously wrong with quality PC hardware and the software ecosystem that runs on it, Linux or Windows.