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Mac OS is what I use for everything besides gaming. I do have a Windows PC for gaming, but I am really excited about the future of Linux gaming and am a proud & happy Steam Deck early adopter.
I grew up building my own computers with hand-me-down parts, fighting my sister for the phone line in the dial up days, calling my uncle for a working Windows or Office key, etc. Something broke in me some years back where I want everything to "just work" and that's what Apple products provide.
Mac. I tried linux and while the future is promising, I had too many things go poorly for me to fully adopt it at the moment. Windows has been going downhill for a long time now, but I think windows 11 is the true point of no return. So I use mac, which feels like a nice middle ground between the two in terms of features, usability, etc.
Windows 11
Switched from Linux to Mac 10 years ago. Runs well and I still have a nice terminal experience. Sometimes I do miss Linux package manager.
Artix Linux, cuz systemd isn’t minimal enough for my insanity, and I don’t have time to compile Gentoo rn
macOS
I’ve been a Mac user since college. I’ve got a lot of utilities and software that I’m very comfortable with, my brain is mapped to the keyboard shortcuts, and I enjoy the UX. There’ve been a couple bumpy patches in the last twenty years, but never enough to cause me to give up on the platform.
I use Windows 10 because I'm lazy and like to game.
macOS - because it just works and I like a clean, consistent ui.
I tried Windows, again and again - and it just feels like Microsoft is incapable of designing a ui that is consistent. Drives me crazy.
Linux, well. I like to run it on servers. I love it. But on the desktop it remains a pain. Yes, a lot has improved over the years. But there is still a long way to go before I would consider it user friendly. And the worst part: I do not see how a consistent ui would even be possible.
Arch because of the neofetch
MacOS
Windows 11.
Over Windows 10: Up-to-date tech stack (not necessarily anything critical)
Bad over Windows 10: Breakage through new context menu, breakage of window bar (forced grouping, no window text), introduced window bar spacing to context menu actions
Downside over Linux: Restrictions (configuration, adjustments), Annoyances (pushing of MS software and tech)
Upside over Linux: Rich usage, gaming, software ecosystem, more of a straight-forward default and customizability over many distributed options and divergence(?), usability feels better.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on HDD and Windows 10 AME on SSD, on a ThinkPad. Best of all worlds. Works incredibly without hassles.
Also, I have Windows XP with MS Office 2007 in it, as a VM on Linux, which incredibly reduces my needs to use Windows directly.
I use linux distros but I won't go into detail which ones I use.