[DamonHD]

I use macOS (as my main/dev laptop), W10 laptop for some work stuff, and various Linux flavour headless servers (RPis and cloud). And I have used many many OSes in the past, including many variants of nix and Windows.

I had never managed to get a nix laptop install to work nicely, including ma ny attempts with Solaris for example. That's what I get out of the box with macOS, and with decent nix tools support. Plus Homebrew is good!

W10 is the best Windows environment that I have used, and the Linux subsystem works reasonably well for me. But is is SLOW*. I think that there's something like a 2x CPU tax to run Windows in practice, and I've definitely repeatably measured consistent performance penalties for Windows over other OSes on the same hardware for my clients in the past.

I do pay a hefty premium for macOS, but it generally just does work more reliably and faster and more smoothly than Windows, for me, so I pay it willingly.

[kujin88]

Thanks! >>> I've definitely repeatably measured consistent performance penalties for Windows over other OSes on the same hardware

Not sure about the deal here though, I have a really high-grade Macbook Pro at work and it is always, always constantly noisy and heating up with something as simple as compiling a medium-sized Java project.

[DamonHD]

Whatever any of the fanbois will tell you, no OS or machine is perfect!

I also put a fair amount of time into tuning my build systems to be efficient, which can help with the kind of (very real) problem you mention.

An unexpectedly nice feature of my MBA M1 is no fan noise at any time. I long ago switched all my other machines to fanless, eg so that they could run overnight quietly, but my laptop never making fan noises is good!