I know it’s popular with professionals and scientists, and of course there’s MacOS, but I don’t know why. What makes it better or more preferable than something like Windows?
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Well, for one thing, you don’t have to go through your Linux or MacOS and manually turn off all the default advertising “features” that Windows has.
I use Windows and MacOS professionally, and I have used various flavors of Linux professionally in the past.
For my own personal use, I prefer MacOS. I’m doing graphics and illustration. Mac is becoming more and more of a walled garden, software wise, but in practical terms that’s generally ok with me. I also have an iPad and iPhone and all my devices work really well together. They’ve got that pretty well nailed.
When I’m doing programming work, I also *prefer* MacOS, but arguments can made for developing on whatever it is you’re going to be deploying on in production and that’s usually some flavor of Linux. My friends who get into hacking their IoT devices enjoy Linux, and, more to the point Android. A big advantage of Linux and Android is they let you take off the nanny controls. If you want to install untrusted software, go nuts. They won’t stop you.
As far as I’m concerned, Windows 11 can die in a fire and so can everyone involved with it. I’ve never been so offended by a user experience in my life.
ETA: typos
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