Like ian, the last Windows machine I owned ran on XP. Until I started my new job last year, I'd not used Windows at all for maybe 12 years. The last non-fruit phone I owned was a SonyEricsson W950i (mid/late-2000s?).
Most of my working life has been in consumer magazine editorial production, which is almost entirely Mac-based across the industry. It made sense to be Mac-based at home as well, especially when I was working freelance.
Current job is in public sector corporate comms, which is a different world entirely. All the office stuff is Windows-based, but it's a slightly weird set-up for our team. Most people across the organisation do their office work through a Citrix workspace, whether that be from their company laptops or via the desktop thin clients in the office. But we use Adobe products for our work, which aren't compatible with Citrix, so we have standalone machines (only time I need to log in to the Citrix workspace is if I want to use the office printers).
At home, I use my work laptop as a de facto desktop, docked to a decent-sized monitor.
In the office (two days a week), I can't connect to the desktop monitors, so I'm confined to the tiny laptop screen.
On the flip side, one of the benefits of having a standalone machine is that I can install stuff on it myself - which is handy, because there's one app I use regularly that is Windows-only. I'm aware that I will probably be in trouble when IT find out, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Being outside the Citrix workspace also means web use isn't restricted, so I can, for example, post to yacf from my work machine, as I am doing right now (I'm too paranoid to use my work machine to look at porn though - or would be if I had any interest in porn.
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If I didn't have that ability to install that one app on my work machine, I would use it via a Windows VM on my Macbook. But that is the sole need I have for Windows in my life outside work.
As it happens, I very rarely use my Macbook now - no point lugging two laptops about when my work machine suffices for everything I need. It did take a while to get used to working in a Windows environment but after nine months, I mostly know my way round it now.
How do the nipple/pad people feel about laptops with touchscreens?
My work machine is a Surface book, which has a detachable touchscreen so you can use it as a tablet. I find it occasionally useful.
