I have an odd perspective, because the state of Maine landed some wild kickback-laden deal to supply high schoolers with ibooks in the 2000s.<p>I hated those machines. I think they were the very first iteration of OSX. They were locked down with annoying, if not very effective Bess proxy software. Nothing was compatible. Safari blew.<p>Using the old Win95 machine in the computer lab was refreshing. I had the freedom of fucking around with QBasic and then VB6 was envigorating. Then some probably bootleg copies of VC++6 for a year. Completely opened my eyes to all the cool, low-level, hacky shit you could do on windows.<p>I'm sure it helped that this was pre-steam, where the pirate pc gaming system was a thing. So learning to fix busted windows systems was an everyday thing. Mac... eh, i had one game that had a macos9 version I could get to run (Lords of the Realm 1, i think...)