If I was using full-screen VNC I'd probably not mind MacOS in theory. But I don't get on with touchpads (the apple ones are absolutely superior to anybody else

If I was using full-screen VNC I'd probably not mind MacOS in theory. But I don't get on with touchpads (the apple ones are absolutely superior to anybody else's but it's just not my thing) and my wrists -really- don't get on with mice these days, so a trackpoint is pretty essential to my comfort. Happily, I see the start menu sufficiently rarely that any presence of ads doesn't even register to me, and the login stuff is basically "meh" since it's (so far) stayed out of my way sufficiently for me not to care. But that's my choice of trade-offs - may you have great joy out of yours :D