Yes, and I would not drive an F-150. Just because it is more popular does not mean it is better. I just remember the boot time of the Windows versus the MacOs, or broken features because of OS upgrade in Windows, or viruses ranging rampant. No thank you. I drive a Tundra instead of an F-150 100x better.
Do you use a Mac or Windows for trading ?
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Yeah, like 20 years ago. Before that it was Atari. Any intelligent person understands that those are just tools to aide the individual in accomplishing tasks. Any windows os based machine today can perform the exact same musical, architectural, cad, and video editing tasks at least as well as any Mac. It's pure preference of choice but not due to software or hardware compatibility.
How many dozen or hundreds of hours did it take you to set up everything exactly the way you liked? 
Nonsense. Any machine is as secure as its user makes it out to be. It just happens to be that most kids, teenagers, and adults who browse and play around don't do such on Linux machines. If you had someone click and download suspicious emails, images, or other content via browser on a Linux machines then any hacker or phisher can equally lock down your machine or erase its content. Has nothing at all to do with Linux being a safer OS. For Windows you don't need any sandbox or two factor Auth or any other garbage. You don't even need any anti virus software, firewall or crap. The windows built in defender firewall and anti virus scanner tested to be of equal strength than any other commercial solution.
98% of all hacks or attacks are not because of the underlying OS. It's because of user misbehavior.
98% of all hacks or attacks are not because of the underlying OS. It's because of user misbehavior.
Take a look at the new e-F150 lightning. You might be impressed. I don't think Toyota is that far and maintenance will be way lower than any fossil fuel powered truck, regardless it's a Toyota or Ford.
Where there's a will, there's is a way whether Mac or Windows. Almost all brokerage platforms are web based, so either system should work. At the moment, most trading software aka stock charting software are windows based. Newer M1 Mac do not support boot camp. Maybe in the near future? It depends on where are the priority, OS or profit ? If one is a Mac user and making consistent profit.... never look back. As for profitable windows users, never look back too. Never I once heard that Mac OS is more profitable the Windows OS or vice versa. It's all about strategy. 
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How many dozen or hundreds of hours did it take you to set up everything exactly the way you liked?
Not many at all. I use Fedora Linux, and the installation is normally quite easy. Some customization is required
(need to separately install Chrome, for instance). Anyway, the only issue I've had with Linux installations on
machines with Windows pre-installed is not disabling the Windows Secure Boot feature prior to installing Linux
(started with Windows 8).
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This is funny to me because I use all three for different purposes.
I will never feel comfortable logging in to any secured account on a Windows machine, and I take precautions and stay up to date with threat vectors on my Linux and OS X devices also.
The Windows machines I use accumulate junk at an unreal rate, and Windows Defender is absolutely useless in detecting the more dangerous threats.
If you'd like to prove me wrong, download a Hitman Pro trial, and see how much spy or malware it can find on your system in a single pass.
In any case, if you're a well capitalised trader, two factor authentication is an absolute must.
Please enable it ASAP, sure it's a bore but it's worth saving your capital.
As an example of which might be the better OS, think about one of the most basic parts of the OS, the file system. Why do Linux systems normally not require defragmention? Because of the file system. Windows places a new file directly after an older one. If that older file needs to grow, it will be fragmented. And possibly require defragmentation. Linux on the other hand places it's files all over the disk (it inherited this approach from UNIX). So each one has plenty of space to grow. It's not the most intuitive way to do it, but it's the better way.
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I can't share the same experience. I have windows 10 pro since it first came out. I use lastpass for all password management. I use everything on the browser, banking, healthcare accounts, anything. Never had a single account hacked or compromised. Never had windows shut down or crash. Never had any intrusion or other issue whatsoever.
My experience with Linux was one big fucking mess. From trying to configure hard drives to go to sleep, to properly installing video card drivers, installing Cuda for deep learning, many hardware related issues that had to be OS configured were a real dirty mess and at best only worked after hours of hours of troubleshooting. Check out Linux related issues on stackexchange. There are at least as many as for windows 10,if not a lot more. I don't doubt that Linux is a powerful tool in the hands of a pro user. For average people who just need their OS to work Linux is a friggin joke.
Two factor authentication is website specific and has nothing to do with the OS. Not sure why you conflate the two issues. I use authentication on my smartphone each time I log into IB on my machines now for years. That does not say anything about the quality of Windows.
My experience with Linux was one big fucking mess. From trying to configure hard drives to go to sleep, to properly installing video card drivers, installing Cuda for deep learning, many hardware related issues that had to be OS configured were a real dirty mess and at best only worked after hours of hours of troubleshooting. Check out Linux related issues on stackexchange. There are at least as many as for windows 10,if not a lot more. I don't doubt that Linux is a powerful tool in the hands of a pro user. For average people who just need their OS to work Linux is a friggin joke.
Two factor authentication is website specific and has nothing to do with the OS. Not sure why you conflate the two issues. I use authentication on my smartphone each time I log into IB on my machines now for years. That does not say anything about the quality of Windows.
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