[LoganDark]

I think if all you want is a Unix, you're better off with Mac, or at least you would have been before the Apple Silicon transition broke Windows support, and Valve stopped supporting Proton on Mac, and CrossOver still doesn't support Unreal Engine, etc.

Stuff like games and proprietary drivers is what keeps people on Windows, I think. Either that, or just a distate for the Mac's design language / user experience, which is also completely fair.

Back in 2016 or so, I had a triple-boot on my MacBook Pro:

- macOS for daily driving, and most development

- Windows for Windows-specific development, gaming, and proprietary drivers or IDEs (Texas Instruments programmers; Samsung / OnePlus flashing; some other embedded tooling)

- Arch Linux for Linux-specific development, usually involving the GPU, which I couldn't get to work in a VM; and also just for fun

These days I simply cannot do most of those things with Mac hardware. I can't even run Asahi yet, because M4 Max.

[nozzlegear]

I play World of Warcraft on my M1 Mac, and my wife plays it on her M4. It's native on Apple Silicon and runs like a dream. So, much like Linux, gaming on a Mac is totally possible depending on which games you want to play. We only play World of Warcraft and were able to dump our Windows machines completely.

[LoganDark]

That's great that you play a game that has a Mac port! I play at least TerraTech Worlds, Volcanoids, Space Engineers, Stationeers, BeamNG.drive, Avorion, Deep Rock Galactic, Dishonored, Cogmind, Pacific Drive, Risk of Rain 2, Just Cause 3/4, Scrap Mechanic ... all of which don't/won't have Mac ports and many of which won't run in CrossOver. Recently I've been getting into ARC Raiders too which definitely won't ever have a Mac port. But it's great that you don't have that problem.

[nozzlegear]

I also played Baldur's Gate 3!

[LoganDark]

I have my fair share of games that run on Mac too, for example I was really happy to learn about No Man's Sky on Mac because I was really into that for a while. It's just not very common, so I simply can't play most games without keeping a Windows desktop around.

[someNameIG]

The selection of games for macOS is tiny compared to Windows, and even Linux now due to proton. For example Paradox games used to have decent support with macOS, but now Europa Universalis V is Windows only (but works with proton) so I can't currently play it.

[LoganDark]

I still think, no matter how strategically advantageous, it was a very sad day when Valve discontinued Proton for macOS.