I've not gone through all 8 pages of comments, nor am I likely to. But from reading the ones I have, it seems I'm a rare bird: I've used Apple stuff my whole life, except for a Compaq Presario 2100 that I was given when an employer closed his doors and was getting rid of all the office stuff. Oh, and I had a XT-equivalent Compaq that was huge and built like a tank for a short time, but I digress...
My second computer was an Apple //e in 1986, so I'm an old geek. I worked in IT in various jobs through the years, always using a PC at work and having an Apple at home. I did most of my own hardware installs in the Apple //e and IIgs and I've replaced HD's and SSD's as well as RAM in Macs until recently when they soldered everything. Through the years I've owned several Macs and right now I'm typing this on a 2018 Mac Mini with a 6-core i5. It's a nice machine and does what I need it to do...ALMOST.
This month while we've been staying at home, I decided to fulfill a bucket list item and build my own PC to run my Steam library on, since I was tired of dual-booting the Mac and the Windows partition was cramping my SSD space. I built a nice Ryzen 3 machine and it runs the casual games I play pretty well using the on-board Radeon Vega graphics. Honestly, it runs a couple games better than my PS4 does, which won't surprise most of you.
I, too, have winced at the Apple hate that seems so common in the PC world. My attitude has always been, use what works for you and don't criticize what others choose to use. I had a brief few years that I hated Bill Gates and Microsoft after Pirates of Silicon Valley revealed his dealings with Steve Jobs, but otherwise I don't mind using Windows 10. It seems pretty good these days.
I understand OP's desire to avoid the haters. And I *do* think that there has been some of that from LTT, but Linus has also pointed out that the "Macs are overpriced" mantra of PC fanboys doesn't hold water if you compare brand name prebuilt PC's with Macs. I think Linus is mostly fair, but there has been an edge of spite in a few of his videos. None of it compares to the way he called out Intel for stomping all over the big AMD announcement recently, though.
Anyway, my 2 cents from someone with a foot in both worlds.
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