Large selection of well designed and user friendly applications. Stuff just works because software and hardware is well integrated

Not to mention consistency. On all other competing platforms consistency across applications tends to be rather bad.

Yes, but what about macOS?

Commercial/Proprietary software support, mainly. Certain companies or institutions may require Windows or MacOS only. I prefer MacOS ecosystem (*nix-like) to Windows.

I develop data engineering/science applications at $BIGCORP daily on a Mac, targeting Linux instances on AWS. What I like:

- It’s UNIX, and has been since Snow Leopard, that makes some development tasks easier. YMMV

- I like the UI (personal preference)

- MS Office stuff is native

- I’ve heard the fan on my M1 box twice in a year

- Can run x86 Docker images via emulation, usually seamlessly

Docker is running in a Linux VM of course on a Mac, so there’s a slight performance hit.

Even all the SIP stuff doesn’t get in the way, in my experience.

this is a troll, right? MacOS is much better for most users than Windows or Linux, and I say this as someone who used desktop Linux for 10+yrs before throwing the towel in.

That's a subjective and misleadingly useless response.