 other Ethan general video so this is a question that a lot of YouTubers have actually been asked lately and that is why do you use your certain platform like why do you use Windows why do you use Linux why do you do macOS well I'm here to tell why I use macOS and I haven't always been a macOS user very like I think my first ever computer I built a PC and it was a very low-end PC and I've never really been a big fan of Windows so I installed Linux Ubuntu Budgie and I probably lived on using Linux Ubuntu Budgie for probably about maybe three years and it worked quite nice except the software library wasn't as large and then over time I found I really liked Apple products they've always been speedy they've always been very useful and the fact that Apple's ecosystem being an I have an iPhone and then if I got a Mac it would just be that last piece to the puzzle to make the entire thing go together and ever since my switch to going completely Mac exclusive on almost everything I do it's really made the experience a whole lot better the fact that if I sit down at my desk and plug my phone in and then on my Mac everything I don't even need to turn on my phone I can answer phone calls answer texts answer emails everything right for my Mac without having to do any configuration on my phone this the fact that everything works together is just amazing and you're going to notice up here I am using macOS Big Sur I have just recently upgraded to Apple's M1 architecture as I think the first Mac I ever used had Apple's power PC architecture and then I had my so I had a Power Mac G5 then I went to a 2010 iMac and then I used my family's Mac book pro from 2014 which is still my family's current Mac book and then just a few days ago I finally upgraded my own computer to a 2020 Apple M1 Mac mini and it's really been quite a smooth ride throughout the entire time there's only been a few times of experience issues and I've never tried to be myself an early adopter I have waited for everyone else to experience the issues and once most of them are fixed I'll join in on the new and improve stuff that Apple has to offer now Mac's in my opinion are great for almost everything they may be a bit more expensive but there's almost nothing you can do on Mac there's almost nothing you can not do on a Mac unlike Windows which has a lot more support Mac is a lot more I guess you could say a lockdown so I've never ran a virus scan on my Mac whereas I think it was like three months actually had to use a Windows PC and I had to run a virus scan every morning and within just a few weeks I'd already gotten some sort of adware and I've never experienced that on a Mac I've never had that problem maybe it's just because Apple security is really locked down like they really care about your privacy and it's just been a great experience all in all now the fact that Apple has their own suite of software is amazing when I got my Mac and I had like documentation just a small amount if I wanted to open a file on here I can just open up preview or pages and it'll just be there it's already pre-installed whereas on Windows to open up almost anything like that you have to download Microsoft Office just to open a simple PDF which is makes the experience a whole lot worse for me if I'm on Windows now yes Apple products don't have as many support for gaming now for me personally I'm not a big gamer I don't game that much but if I did I still would switch to Mac there's few games I do play like Minecraft and grow blocks and asphalt nine legends those games are almost we're completely on Mac and if they don't I can run it in Apple's Rosetta architecture or use wine to convert Windows programs to Mac and I've never really had to do that the small amount of programs that I actually do use all work perfectly fine on a Mac now looking at just my app catalog I have games on here and stuff that I play on my iPhone as Apple is just which I'm one architecture as well as apps whole sweet apples a whole suite of apps I mean Windows Movie Maker isn't great but if you ever tried opening up iMovie and you have almost all the effects to make a simple but pretty cool movie I made all my first YouTube videos on my other YouTube channel on iMovie and it looked pretty professional now Apple has gone a long way in their new Apple and one architecture to make it so if you have an app that you really like to play or a game you like to play or just an irregular app you use and it's on your iPhone if the developer allows it you can actually run that app well on your computer and that is just amazing as you can see here I have games like among us hill climb bit city like all these games are games that I've loved to play and apps even like B&H photo their app works on here as well as I've got eBay I don't need to go to the website it has its own app version they've got me we they've got an apple's whole suite of their own apps which is crazy as well as my video editing software of choice DaVinci Resolve is almost entirely Mac exclusive and the fact that Apple has such a diverse catalog for making tablets to phones to computers it may be more expensive but in my opinion it's worse it's it's worth the extra buck and Mac computers have always been on top on the almost always on the latest hardware giving you the best experience and that's why I choose Mac that's my opinion on why I use Mac OS over Windows and Linux even if someone tried to pay me like two million dollars I probably wouldn't switch to Windows I just I just don't like Windows and that's me you can criticize me all you want but I'm always gonna be a Mac fan I've always been an Apple fan and I think I'm going to continue to use Mac OS as long as I can as it is as good as computers get in in my opinion is as good as computers get as well as Apple is really pushing the boundaries of what computers can do in their software and hardware so thank you all for watching the video have a great rest of your day and goodbye