Baraka makes my earlier point exactly. I will change it to be less condescending though: Macs are for people who don't want to work under the hood. That is of course a generalization, but I believe it to be a fairly accurate one.
I tinker with my PC when I'm bored. When I first built the watercooled/overclocked Q6600 system, I worked on the hardware for days. I got a nice stylish midtower lian-li case, cut holes for fans, fit the radiator, measured and cut tubes, swapped things around some to make it fit good, added some custom air ducting, etc. After that, I put the OS on it and played with that, and still do. To me an OS is never "done", there is always room for improvement.
I have very few problems with any OS I use. XP is a dream for stability. If it is not stable, it's because either hardware is bad or the OEM 3rd party apps are shit (they usually are). I run XP for months and don't reboot or anything. I just sit down, do my shit, and leave, then sit down later, do more shit, and leave again. Keep in mind on an overclocked system, which I test for stability thoroughly at the hardware level before I consider it ready for daily use. I have vista running too, and while the initial headaches are going away, I do not think it is a useful business OS yet. Bear in mind I run vista business just for that reason - testing and learning. So macOS is great on that front, it is much easier to use than vista and probably more stable, and it looks better than XP in stock form, but for what I want to do daily macOS is about as useful as linux or unix.
My point is I enjoy tinkering, and I can't tinker nearly as much on macs. If my computer just started up and that was it, I would be bored. If it starts up and I can choose my OS of choice, overclock it higher, maybe change up the watercooling, maybe upgrade and use the old parts for FreeBSD like I did last month, then I am much happier.
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