I think we got off on the wrong foot, and I'll take ownership of that. Love Debian and Ubuntu and most Linux distros. When I'm spending my own money on a machi

I think we got off on the wrong foot, and I'll take ownership of that. Love Debian and Ubuntu and most Linux distros. When I'm spending my own money on a machine for personal use, I always err on the side of a PC with a Linux distro. My main reason for using a Mac is it's the closest to a Linux box that still has support for the software I have to use every day -- i.e. mainly the Adobe suite. I also (selfishly) recommend Macs to most people because they hardly ever need to come running to me for IT support. I'm also not claiming Apple doesn't steal. They steal liberally. I am claiming, perhaps wrongly if you have good evidence, that people steal from Apple far more than anyone steals from Microsoft or any other tech company that I can think of. See the history of smartphones, tablets, and laptops for the past 20 years. From my perspective, it's been a history of Apple doing something different, and the industry blindly following them, even when it's not clear it's the right idea. (For example, I personally hate the now-ubiquitous camera notches on phones.) At a minimum, you have to concede Apple's design ethos is heavily stolen by virtually everyone. So much so that I would struggle to find a laptop or phone that didn't look like an Apple knock-off. As for the window manager, it works great for me. Doesn't work great for you. I think I can still maintain the assertion that they're simply different, with different priorities. Your priorities aren't wrong, but neither are those found in MacOS. They're just wrong for you. The Apple Way is very much "We've figured this stuff out so you don't have to." Of course, no solution is perfect for 100% of people. But I think they've done a better job than most at coming up with something that works really well for most people. I've never run into an issue that made me wonder how I could multitask on a Mac.