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I know the pain. I've worked at Windows-only places and places where the options were Windows or Mac but you were strongly encouraged to use Mac. Honestly, when I started at the latter place, I hadn't touched Windows or Mac in like a decade, so as far as what I was familiar with, Windows and Mac were about the same for my purposes. And since most of the team used Mac, I just went with Mac.
The graphical system was terrible (to the point I even looked into what it would take to replace the default Mac graphical system (was it called "Aqua" or something? Don't remember.) with something X11 based, but that's like 100% impossible), but the thing that I hated the most was the touch bar. The Siri "button"(/"icon?") on the touch bar was like one millimeter away from the backspace key (which is called "delete" in Mac for some reason, even though it acts like backspace). I'm sure I wasted so much time just closing Siri dialog boxes.
All that said, I'm not saying Windows would have been better than the Mac I had to use there. I probably would have been just as frustrated with Windows.
I'm lucky enough now to be working for an employer that lets me use Ubuntu. I disabled all the default desktop environment stuff. I unfortunately can't get away with Sway because I need to use Zoom and desktop sharing doesn't work with Sway, but I use i3 which acts virtually identically (and does support desktop sharing).