Certainly the overwhelming view of HN is that they're morally equivalent, but that's more an indictment of blinkered HN groupthink than a statement of fact.

Agreed. Apple is by no means perfect (far from it), and neither is macOS. But anything user-hostile in macOS is relatively minor in comparison to Windows.

And for anyone who hasn't used macOS, it's not a locked-down walled-garden like iOS is.

I look at it like this.

For me, Linux.

For my mom, Mac.

For my enemies, Windows.

There's no such thing as a statement of fact when it comes to morals. And I say this as someone who believes in universal moral law.