I’ve been using a MacBook for my work for years now (not voluntarily). I’ve always had a Windows desktop as my main machine. Your experience is completely different from mine. I’ve found that it’s easy to use the MacBook, so long as I want to do things the way Apple dictates. With Windows, I can discover and tweak my own processes to work the way I want to. With Apple I feel entirely boxed in.
All that being said, I think the whole discussion can get ridiculous. It shouldn’t bother anyone one way or the other which product someone prefers, and most of the time, it sounds like a Pepsi vs Coke argument to me.
What’s with all the NDP hate here? They gave many Canadians free dental and many other (left-leaning) things through their coalition with the Liberals. I take issue with the premise of this post. Yes, the NDP are going to lose votes this election, but it’s not specifically because they screwed up. It’s because a lot of us are in a situation where the anti-vote for CPC pushes voters to vote Liberal when they would otherwise vote NDP.
I don’t know if this is a trend that will continue. But if the Liberals had changed our voting system (like they promised) to something other than FPTP, no one here would need to cast anti-votes or strategic votes anymore. Or at least less often.
I’m lucky that in my area, my anti-vote, strategic vote and heartfelt vote all land on the same party. But most Canadians aren’t.