So 4 years on my desktop without any significant issues, 2 years of my Lenovo laptop running without issue, and 6 months in of my school using PCs without issue. As a former Mac user, I can tell you Windows 10 works absolutely fine, and any "inefficiencies" are easily lost in the vastly superior hardware. As for the Ads, yeah they exist.. for about the 30 seconds it takes to clear them away.
Honestly, Mac OS can be as polished as it wants to be, still doesn't change the fact that media production requires computing power that Macs simply don't have these days.
As for build quality, that isn't really a fair thing to say about all PCs. Sure a 400$ Acer laptop is going to be poorly made, but my Lenovo is a solid machine thats just as well built as my MacBook Pro was. My desktop I built myself is a well crafted machine, 4 years strong without a single hardware failure.
Honestly when you just spout off the usual "its a terrible junk OS" line, it makes me think your only experience with Windows was running launch day Vista on a Pentium III. If it was as terrible as you make it out to be, professionals wouldn't load it onto their very expensive machines.
Oh right, sorry to burst the bubble about Mac OS's "tight hardware intergration", but when I had my MacBook Pro, I ran Windows on it in bootcamp, and Mac OS was only a few seconds faster at most at heavy tasks. Mac OS runs on the same hardware as PCs do these days, and considering the myriad of configurable options for Mac hardware, the OS isn't nearly as tightly integrated as it was a few years ago.
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Wow, thanks for that condescending attitude. Not that theres anything wrong with creating content for YouTube or Twitch, either of which can have extremely demanding workflows. But me I just stick to rendering animations and physics simulations in Maya, editing 4K RAW footage in Premier and After Effects, color grading that footage in Resolve, editing lovely 16-bit images in Photoshop, texturing 3D objects in Substance Painter. You know, just lightweight work that requires a decent CPU and something stronger than a mid-tier AMD laptop GPU.
You can turn of telemetry pretty easily. Theres many 2 minute tutorials on how to do it. Same with the advertisements. I agree I shouldn't have to, but honestly its a minor 5 minute inconvenience I have to do once a year. As for the power management, honestly it sounds like your laptop is defective. I've got a Lenovo laptop and it sleeps when I close the lid without fail. I feel like you've taken a few bad things about Windows and blown them up to be something bigger than they are. Everyones experience is different, but I've use Windows for the last 4 years on my desktop and the last 2 years on my laptop and it has never once caused me to be unable to do work.
This isn't exactly a fair comparison. Yes MacBooks are well made, yes there are some horrendously bad PC laptops, but honestly any PC I've seen/used thats over 1000$ the build quality is decent. My Lenovo is easily as well made as my MacBook Pro was, with the exception of the trackpad, though for me thats a non-issue as I always use a mouse. Same goes for the displays. Yeah no kidding a 400$ Acer laptop has a terrible display, but my Lenovo's 1080p screen is plenty crisp at 15", and has excellent color and contrast, and I don't find myself missing the Retina Display from my MacBook at all. And now you can get a plethora of PC laptops with 4K screens, so they've caught up on pixel density.
And thats good if you have Apple products, but the only Apple product I have left is a 2nd Gen iPod nano.
