Around ~15 years ago ios as a platform became a big thing. It's what powers iphone, and you can write apps for it. You can only write those apps on mac hardwa

Around ~15 years ago ios as a platform became a big thing. It's what powers iphone, and you can write apps for it. You can only write those apps on mac hardware. There are hundreds of millions of ios devices in use, all using apps sold to ios users, developed by people running on macs. > It's more buggy than Windows, it has the same malware problem as Windows, it's spy- & adware as Windows, it's inflexible, Citations needed please. Yes, you can get malware on a mac. That's always been a potential, but malware problems on mac have never come anywhere near the scale of malware-on-windows. Not even close. > The usability of macOS is even worse than Windows, imho. Still it's very popular. So what we can conclude is that your 'ho' aren't very popular(?). So what? That can't be it. It must be that hundreds of millions of people are 'brainwashed'. I got tired of various windows laptops and every linux distro failing to 'sleep' properly when I closed a laptop lid. I got tired of not being able to have 2 apps both play sound at the same time under linux. Oh shit - pulse? jack? alsa? Oh - you chose the wrong version of the wrong distro - recompile your kernel to make that work right - just copy these 87 lines from a linux forum and paste (as root!) in your console and reboot - just be thankful you're not being 'insecure' like Windows. "But none of those are problems now! You did it wrong! My mate Paul said it's always worked!" I moved away from daily Linux-as-desktop in... 2008, because I'd spent a good 6 years on various laptops/hardware/etc trying to 'make it work right', and whenever something didn't work, it was always somehow my own fault for lacking some 'easy' piece of info - if I just keep searching/researching/testing - this time it will be better/fixed/good. I lost a weekend in 2008 trying to get a new laptop set up. Video worked, but could not connect to an external projector. Hours later, eventually connected, but only mirrored, not two separate screens. This was a days after I'd been assured "oh no... yeah, I know you've mentioned problems before, but these days, it's all just fine - I never have any problems with my linux/laptop!" I decided ... 6-7 years of chasing/learning/compiling various options was more than enough. Forgive me if I'm skeptical after many years of hearing "it works great!" and continually hitting walls where no one could ever help. Then... moving to a platform where... you close the lid, it sleeps. You plug in a monitor, it works. Plug in a printer, it works. Plug in a camera, it works. And then... being told somehow that all that end-user experience is somehow subpar to Linux... just doesn't ring true. I do daily use Linux servers. And I've been tempted to give desktop linux another spin 15 years later. I have family running daily Linux/desktop/laptop - it's mostly working for them, but I still hear about weird issues I've not had to face in years. If/when I find myself with a lot of free time, I might give it another spin, but... I'm in no rush.