Good thing you can afford the kind of expense that the luxury of that hate is costing you then, I guess.

For a professional developer the difference in cost is not that much bigger.

Well, generally speaking Windows and Mac developers are in such demand that hardware is quite a small expense compared to how much they make.

Is the experience very different for Linux developers?

It's very weird to be talking about "windows, mac or linux" developers.

Desktop application development today is maybe about 1-5% of all development, while overwhelming majority of backend development - the largest category - targets Linux.

Percentage of the way to being as good as all desktop operating systems ought, at a minimum, to be:

Windows: 70%

Linux: 20-80% depending on your hardware, what you're doing with it, and how lucky you got with the current kernel & libraries your distro is running.

MacOS: 90%

So when Apple fucks up really bad and MacOS temporarily drops to 70%, no, I still don't switch. Every desktop operating system is shitty, but there are degrees of shitty.

And yes, I use all three pretty regularly.

Crashing while doing your work is not "drops to 70%". That is the problem we were discussing and that is not a minor inconvenience.

Oh look the main speaker for the Mac folk!