Reluctantly, Apple, as in the computers and, to a lesser extent, the iphones.
We love the macOS operating system, not so much the hardware choices over the last decade. We put up with the limited hardware just to run the macOS.
I've done a deep dive into linux and windows 10, even running them on my old Apple hardware. They are both surprising powerful on ancient hardware, esp. linux. However, nothing on linux w*rks as well for me as Adobe Photoshop and linux won't even support my audio hardware.
Windows 10 seemed more promising since Adobe is now mac/windows agnostic, and there are tons of major audio DAW software available. I nearly switched to the "dark side", but the little things started to drive me crazy.
Text just plain looks different on Win10 vs macOS, even running the same website on the same browser. I found that the Win10 text much harder to read, which was a surprise since this wasn't a big deal when I used Window 7 when w*rking. Oddly, this even extended to printing LibreOffice documents. The text was just more fuzzy at a given level of print resolution.
After spending tons of time tweaking Win10 text setting with some improvement, I realized that things were just easier in Mac World, at least for the stuff I want to do. Plus, I stumbled on the fact that Apple is now offering a free 90 demo of Logic Pro, basically Garage Band on steroids. After laying down a few vocal and guitar tracks in Logic, I was just floored. The sound quality of many of the presets is just amazing, much better than what I've been getting out of Garage Band.
Looks like I've fallen in love with Apple again and will eventually be upgrading to their in- house M1 hardware or the like as new mac models roll out over the next few years.
Also, I'm getting tired of lugging around real camera on hikes, so I'll probably treat myself to a new(er) iphone at some point. If you shoot raw files with an app like Adobe Lightroom or native (newer phones), the results are suprising good and no more extra stuff to lug up the hills.
