A Mac isn’t really a walled garden though.

You don’t even need an Apple account to use one. Unlike Windows.

As opposed to Microsoft, the good guys right now? I don’t see how incessant privacy violations, selling your data, and general shovelware behavior of Windows 11 is better. In many ways, it’s much worse in my view.

> voting for a bad person because you like their policies.

These days, you're lucky if you get to pick from "Bad", "Very Bad", and "Worst".

(BTW, does Mr. Bad look like he'll competently implement and honestly administer his policies? 'Cause without those, "good" policies ain't worth squat):