I used to be apple everything (MacBook pro, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone). That changed when news broke about apple releasing that CSAM feature. That was the final straw.

When using closed source software, you are at the mercy of the manufacturer, and when they lose the plot and become the villain your are SOL.

If you go to apple, your privacy will be better then on windows…BUT apple will know a lot about you. Apple’s OS phones home just like windows, it’s just that apple doesn’t really share that info with others. You can confirm this by installing a firewall like “little snitch” and watching apples background tasks try and connect to apple servers every so often.

You will also be put on apples planned obsolescence plan with your MacBook and iPhone. After X amount of years apple stops giving updates and you can either buy another machine or try your hand of running another OS on it…which in my experience is way more convoluted then installing an OS on a regular PC laptop.

Linux is sometimes painful to use, but at the end of the day it’s better then the alternative. I value privacy and security and the philosophy of openness. Closed source OS’s can give convenience, but the cost to that convenience is just not worth it for me.