I used to work for one of these OS companies, but I used the other's product to work on linux systems. I often got asked by colleagues which OS is my favorite.
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To me, Apple has the best desktop user experience. The 'ecosystem' comforts aside, the biggest factor is the system-level hotkey design around cmd + ...
. Using my thumbs for copy/paste/alt-tab is far more ergnomic for me compared to using my pinky to hit ctrl (although this is not too awful when capslock is remapped to ctrl/escape). Some valuable built-in and ecosystem features include proximity unlock, iphone mirroring, iphone sidecar monitor, air play & air drop, background noise, and spotlight. These are not unique features by any means, but they are included in the OS out of the box.
The thing about MacOS and Windows though, it's annoying to deploy services on them. Every place t