@Sui @Purp1Lady That's nice. I'm not a fairy gay faggot and I don't drink Charbucks. I don't pretend Apple is not more expensive, because I just felt it in my pocketbook getting my new MacBook Air out of necessity for my photography. Especially when I'm going through and processing over 7000+ photos like I did last year with Balloon Fiesta 2024. Not going through that shit again.

I'll tell you something right now. Apple has hit a home run with the M4 series of Apple Silicon. When what took 30+ minutes to process last year, now takes 30 seconds or less. That is how impressive these new processors/GPU's are.

I'm putting on my Computer Analyst/Programmer hat here, and yes I have a degree that gave me the ability to program in six different programming languages.

macOS is a vastly superior OS over Windows and even Linux. I've used more Linux distributions than I care to count. Apple does some boneheaded shit sometimes, but that happens with every OS. Windows has had its share of it over the years.

Linux still sucks shit after all these years, because you still don't have companies making products I use every single day. Windows sucks shit all the time to this day since Windows 3.

e.g. DxO PhotoLab, DxO FilmPack, DxO PureRaw, DxO ViewPoint, Topaz Photo AI 4, Tag Editor, To Audio Converter, Mac DVD Ripper Pro, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher, Visual Watermark, etc.

If these companies offered these software applications I'd probably be using Linux. But, it is what it is.

In my world, if you make the software they will come. Linux doesn't make software that even approaches the functionality that I need in my computing life. I've been using computers since my first AMIGA 500 back in the late 1980s, so I think I know what I'm talking about here. Oh... I was even a Commodore AMIGA Authorized Dealer with my own computer store back in Canada.

In 1997, I was faced with going with the Mac or a Windows computer, because Commodore went bankrupt back in 1992. My AMIGA was getting too slow online, etc. I chose the Mac with the Power Macintosh 5400/180 while I was still in the Canadian Forces. Then I got the first iMac (Bondi Blue) and sold my Power Mac to a friend of mine.