Extremely important, I forgot that.

I think we should ask for hardware to remain beautiful in use. Look around you: Except for things made out of wood, metal, paper, glass or ceramic, most things will fail that test.

> Windows (best OS)

I'll admit, I haven't touched a Windows machine in over a decade, and it hasn't been my daily driver since 2002. The last version I used on a semi-regular basis was Win2K3 at work.

I'm willing to give it another shot though. Why do you think it's the best now?

I have both Windows and macOS, macOS just has too many idiosyncracies and babies you into not allowing you to run whatever apps you want. Frequently I'll get stuff like, this app was not updated by the creator so you can't run it. At least with Windows I can turn off such annoyances.

With ARM adoption it might again be an option. I'm using Windows ARM in Parallels on M1 Mac and use Visual Studio perfectly.

Microsoft says "it might not work" yet it works flawlessly. YMMV though.

But isn’t a huge part of Windows the ecosystem of applications? That largely doesn’t exist on ARM though correct? Or does Windows have an emulation solution built in for that.

Yes, emulation.

Visual Studio 2022 is x64 and is running under emulation in an ARM environment (M1 Max) and is working perfectly.

While it's not native performance, it's close and the gap will even get narrower by time.