To be fair, I switched away from Windows back in ~2004 and used Macos pretty much exclusively since then, with the exception of Linux, which wasn't feeling as good for desktop.
I switched again, in Dec 2023 to Linux as desktop, due to the kind of issues we're discussing ITT, and also due to Apple's "buy new, you can't repair" effective hardware policy.
I setup a couple of Windows 11 machines with WSL too, and tend to use them a lot more than I expected. There's issues, and I'm still figuring some things out wrt to doing things in Windows (not WSL) but the experience is significantly better than expected.
I'm not a fan of M$ but Apple are really taking the cake for anti-user hostility these days.
I have never understood the VMWare/Pivotal thing, to the point where I assumed there must be two different companies named that for VMWare to have bought a company called Pivotal.
Pivotal Labs was acquired by EMC back in the day. They bundled it with some cloud foundry work and created Pivotal. When Dell acquired EMC they also acquired a big share of Pivotal. Dell then decided to squeeze more blood from the VMWare stone and forced them to acquire Pivotal before selling the whole thing off to Broadcom.
use pass.