Hey, I'll give you $500 for every time I typed "good" in this thread prior to this comment. Take your time and look.

Then, when you're done, I would encourage you to re-read the original post. Here, I'll help you:

Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?

I would never point a friend towards Windows. So that's easy.

not particularly savvy with technology,

Let's read it again, OK?

not particularly savvy with technology,

Meaning that this is someone who might be lucky to know how to spell their name or tie their shoes. Someone that failed a driving test 4 times. Why make life more complicated for this friend? Especially when, if I'm a friend as well, when they one day follow ChatGPT advice on how to do something inane and delete their boot partition or something stupid, I have to help unfuck their stuff. This is someone that doesn't deserve the responsibility that Linux distros give users. This is someone that doesn't practice 3-2-1 backups. This is someone that forgets their phone in a bar the day after they got a new phone because they left the last one at the beach, but HAS TO HAVE their photos on there or they'll die. They will never get anything repaired. They will never push performance limits (lol), as noted, they gladly spend money for someone to coddle them on using their device because they will never in their life learn how to do more than turn it on, take pictures, scroll IG or whatever, and a few other things.

This is not someone smart enough to responsibly use a Linix distro in my mind. And there are a LOT of people like this out there. A lot. And sometimes we're friends with them and want them to at least not bother us all the time with problems if they're willing and able to do that with the people that made the device.

Mate I'm no fan of Apple but half the stuff you said is completely subjective or based off 2012 era memes. How do you define "overpriced" or "underperforming"? In terms of price, the hardware in their machines is usually pretty good, build quality has always been great. You'll have to elaborate on "underperforming" as I'm not really sure what you're saying with this.