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Mac OS. People say it costs more, but I am not paying for a hardware and then some software that tries to make use of it. Instead Iโm paying for a well thought out product that just works.
And even though it does cost more at first, it lasts a lot longer and gets lots more free OS updates that most other ones.
More free OS updates? You can upgrade your PC from Windows 7 to 10 for free (even to 11 if you have TPM2). That will be decades of free updates and upgrades.
Not to mention Linux, FreeBSD, and the like.
Call me crazy, but I don't see people rocking laptops from 2008 until this date, I have seen people using Macs from that day using recent macOS versions (with OCLP) and some hardware tweaks like upgrading the RAM or SSD if needed, or replacing the battery.
Heck my Mac is from 2014 and it runs fairly fine.
I happened to sell an old PC recently, from 2010 IIRC. It had a Windows 8 license that could be "upgraded" to Windows 10 which would run fine on this machine until at least 2025. I think 15 years is quite okay. After that it could still run Linux like forever.