
I’m pretty good at bootstrapping a new PC. Taking it from the box, installing all my software, changing all my preferred settings takes me about three hours. I have nobody who does it for me, but I also have nobody who messes up my setup with corporate policies. My PC does not behave like your PC.
I have also been a Mac user for more than ten years, but I gave up when it became clear that Apple was never going to build something as innovative as a Surface Pro. Laptops that do not have a touchscreen and do not accept pen input are just stuck in the last Millennium. I have tried working on an iPad Pro only, for a full year.
I am also a Linux user, and I have been when Linux still had 0.x version numbers. I have met both Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman as in ‘I know how he smells’. 🙂 I have worked with Sinix, VMS, MVS. I have also worked on Burroughs B1700, which you probably never heard of. I have written JCL and COBOL. I even tried Prolog and PL/1.

I was also on MS-DOS, Windows 1.x and everything Windows since, with the exception of Windows Vista. For a decade I was on OS/2, from 1.x onwards. I have seen Clippy fail, I have seen Watson fail, I lived through three different versions of “Workplace”.
I am a Windows user, and I don’t like what Microsoft is doing to it. I routinely switch off everything that tries to nudge me into MSN, Bing and Copilot.
Stay away from me with your advocacy for your favorite platform. I can live on all of them, but I happen to get stuff done on Windows.