Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price.

From the user perspective, enterprise managed Windows is locked down, too, and somehow less reliable.

Most of the software engineers I know in FAANG and similar tier companies use Macbooks to program. Poke around a coffee shop in the bay area during a weekday and look around.

And personally, I switched to Mac about 15 years ago mainly because dependency management and the shell made more sense to me coming from Linux. Windows has always been trash, and most other non-Apple OEMs make the actual physical laptop experience worse (hinges, behavior on closing the lid, trackpad behavior and size, power management, display quality in both brightness and pixel density, webcam/audio behavior).

The main thing Apple has going for them is their UI/UX is great for the average person, and all of their products just work with each other.

But yeah, from a sysadmin point of view it’s garbage.

Nah I use both pretty regularly and I’m fairly sure macOS still makes you do the “nope sorry, press ok, go into system settings, security panel, become admin and click trust this unknown publisher” thing

Windows still just does the same safescreen thing they’ve been doing for ages now: “windows stopped this unknown thing from running, wanna run it anyway?”

you are being protected, please don’t resist.