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I have never really used a mac, but the reason it and my OS of choice (Linux) is better for me than Microsoft is probably value-alignment.
If you go and buy a chocolate bar, you can expect it to taste good. This is because the company that makes the chocolate is interested in making money, and must satisfy the preferences of their customers for them to keep buying it. Thus the design of the chocolate is two steps removed from being aligned with you: to the degree that your tastes align with the tastes of the average customer, and the degree that the amount the average customer spends aligns with the taste of the chocolate. These steps are likely pretty small – your tastes probably don't differ massively from the general public, and buying candy is a pretty straightforward transaction with lots of competition.
For software (and especially massive ones like operating systems), the situation is entirely different. The consumers are diverse, with some being interested in video games, some in office work, some in servers, and so on. You are probably not very close to the center here; Microsoft makes most of its money from hosting and cloud services, not OS sales. The second step is really bad as well; operating system sales suffer from practices like vendor lock-in, OEM-preinstallations, sunk costs, piracy, and painful friction from switching systems. This results in a system that doesn't do what you want, because "what you want" is pretty different from the incentives that Microsoft has.
Apple makes most of its money from selling actual products where the quality is strongly connected to the amount they sell. Moreover, they are targeted at consumers and professionals like you!
Linux is even more extreme. The modal user is a meganerd like myself, and the second step doesn't even exist – a whole lot of the development is done by people solving their own problems, which is by definition perfectly aligned with their needs. This results in a ecosystem that can compete in quality for their users even if there is significantly less resources involved than the other two.
(You can incidentally do the same analysis for any other domain. If your tastes don't strongly align with the general public and the general public buys whatever the company puts out, then it's a pretty safe bet that the product will be terrible.)
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