I got my first MacBook around the time Vista came out and thereby was able to skip Vista on my own machine. My employers continued to use XP for several years,

I got my first MacBook around the time Vista came out and thereby was able to skip Vista on my own machine. My employers continued to use XP for several years, and (after a long period of unemployment during the Great Recession) I couldn't afford a Mac next time I needed a new machine. Now after a couple of years with a ho-hum Dell Latitude 13 that cost $1200, I'm using a MacBook Air M1 that cost less and performs far, far better and has none of the glitches and issues Windows and Intel are famous for.