That was terrifying in new ways, thank you

I love it

I honestly can't tell if you are making an ironic joke

Great album name

No just overall experience. Everything runs better on Windows really. Anonymous usage shit doesn't matter to me really. As for anything I need to do Windows just does it better, I don't run into weird driver issues or update problems that cause things to crash miserably or lock me out of my boot sector with obscure errors I have to spend forever troubleshooting through a rabbit hole of forum posts and obscure nonsense. All the software I would ever need to use works fine including all the obscure stuff I have to use for work that I otherwise spend forever troubleshooting in arch, Ubuntu, mint, etc. Using wine, proton, or etc. It just works. I could plug any USB device in on Windows and get a little pop-up that says "you dude your shits ready to roll" and it's good. I used Linux for 15 years or so on and off and I was vehemently pro Linux like you are but dude it really does suck. Only way it works is if someone develops a distro with exacting, specific hardware in mind and tests it for a good couple years then releases it for others to use with the exact same hardware. Cases like Chromebooks, steam decks, Enterprise mainframes and servers. Yeah, that's fine, someone is putting in the time and effort to build specifically for this things. As for everything else, if you want shit to work and get your day to day work done as a grown up, not a great situation unless you somehow hit some sweetspot of hardware config that will supported. Otherwise most of your computing time is gonna be spent getting your computer actually functional

Yeah, choosing between the two definitely isn't a black and white situation. I still use my pi's for a lot of things, and power is definitely a factor. Neatness is also a factor as well. Having a project where you need an SATA or m.2 drive especially as buying an enclosed case alone for that is gonna cost $40 at least and you have to give up a USB 3 port to do so. Again though not every project needs that and a lot of projects like a pihole or emulation box can function just fine with SD.

I understand where you are coming from with the whole hackintosh thing but in that case it's not actually an Apple computer but a PC made to run MacOS. I come from the audio industry so back in the day it was pretty common to have people building hackintosh's and go through the whole process of doing all that's involved. I got wrangled into helping a lot of studios get their situations setup and typically everyone would dual boot with 7 or 10 and it would follow a pretty common theme of

"hey we're 3 months in and this is working great" to "ya we're 6 months in and we're having some issues with MacOS, so we did some fixes and it's pretty stable now" to "we're at 8 months and everything is getting pretty messy, reinstalled MacOS and it seems fine. To be safe we kinda migrated to Winblows for the time being since we are busy and we can't really have any downtime right now, we're looking to get a trashcan or a Mac mini here soon hopefully" to "hey we're 12 months in and, ya know, things are pretty smooth on Winblows so we haven't really been focusing too much on the computer situation, we also noticed we can handle higher plugin loads and we run better at lower latency which is pretty nice. For now I think we're good." Then hearing nothing from them about their computer for a while "ya man remember when we built that hackintosh lol, boy that was a mess, we actually just ended up wiping the MacOS drive for more storage." In my audio career I also started out on Mac and held on for a while but always felt something was missing but I grit my teeth and tucked it away because it was just so common in the industry at the time. Sorry I went on a bit of a tangent, but yeah, if you had a hackintosh typically everyone was dual booting anyhow so switching to Windows for gaming would have been a more practical methodology so it was never explored too much in my experience. Not to mention, from what I recall all the anti-cheat stuff would cause problems with games that were being translated so you would have to cut your options down significantly. With the current situation of how things are going with Apple and how software tends to lose support pretty quickly for older OS versions it seems pretty unlikely that hackintosh will be a viable thing for professionals much longer unless they choose to stay on older versions.

Yeah if someone is planning to stack I would definitely suggest they make sure they aren't buying the top venting models

Nobody that is computer hardware centric is going to take interest in buying an Apple computer though. So it will never end up in their hands to begin with

Same with the HP elite desks, and don't forget you can get off lease Chromebooks with much better specs than pi for ~$60 as well

Upgradable GPU

If this fails I suggest they help the course water their greens... With diesel...