No, that is a niche of the pro market.

Nope. They'll point out that Macs are typically closed boxes where Apple has total control, and supplies all the drivers. Anything the user adds will be USB, thunderbolt, or HDMI.

Pretty much like an Intel or ASUS NUC. The NUC being pretty reliable too as a result.

Not when its a 3rd party driver.

So your solution is removing the 3rd party driver and either not supporting the hardware or using a Microsoft driver. :-)

The one truly flaky PC I had was not DIY, it was a school supplied Dell laptop. And it was flakier under Linux than Windows. Dell used lots of iffy parts presumably from the lower cost bidders and got what they paid for. On this Dell laptop the real problem under Linux was wifi.

And like my school selected Dell, the components probably have some flaky lowest cost bidder stuff. Again, in a PC with really good parts, both OS work very well. The difference between your observations and mine isn't the software, its the hardware.

No argument about default configurations being a pain on Windows. But that is something separate from OS qualify, crashes, etc.

Really? That's the only Funny on this rich target? And doesn't even strike me as especially funny. Maybe later?

But now I can't even remember if the real FBI director's passing got a mention on today's Slashdot.

I'm not questioning you. I'd read it just on the author if it was available around here. Rather you should file it as among my personal problems. First, I'm trying to get rid of all of my books, not buy new ones. Second, I choose to live in Japan where the libraries basically treat English books as an afterthought. (By using lots of libraries I'm able to find enough good stuff to read, and I'm reading more and more Japanese books these years.) Third, my second and final Amazon purchase was decades ago...

Same for Linux, many of these dubious hardware vendors only support Windows, so Linux dodges that bullet too. 3rd party drivers are usually the source of the problems, Windows, Linux, or Mac.

Quite the opposite since the WinNT line of the family came out. I've been dual booting WinNT/Linux since the mid 1990s. Both Windows and Linux ran fine on my DIY PCs where I pick good parts from reputable vendors that directly support both OS.

Crashes are usually 3rd party drivers, both Windows and Linux. Linux dodges some of that disaster by the shittier hardware/drivers from budget hardware vendors not supporting Linux. In the last 30 years my only flaky PC was not DIY, it was a school selected laptop, and it was flakier under Linux than Windows. The wifi drivers for Linux were terrible.

Actually it's mostly price. Server grade hardware tends to run Windows very well, just like Linux.
To a lesser degree servers are UNIX home turf. So Linux had an advantage with the legacy software compatibility from UNIX workstation/server days. Sort of like WinNT had a legacy software compatibility advantage for desktop systems.

The same is true for my dual boot Windows / Linux boxes. Neither side crashes. It not the OS, its third party drivers that are typically the source of trouble. My DIY PCs have well chosen parts from reputable manufacturers, with good drivers for both OS. I've been doing this for 30 year. The only PC that had problems was the one I did not build, a school selected laptop. I configured it to dual boot and wifi was always flaky under Linux, crappy Linux drivers for the Dell vendor with the lowest priced component.

Similarly, macOS is pretty damn reliable for similar reasons, driver quality. With no slots, pretty much anything a users adds will be plugging into Apple's USB or Thunderbolt drivers.

Yes, a $300 processor upgrade on the M4 Max to go from CPU/GPU cores 14/32 to 16/40;
and a $1,5000 upgrade on the M3 Ultra to go from 28/60 to 32/80.

That's a different service. A hide-my-email user does not "log in" to their alias email. They log in to their normal Apple ID email.The alias is more of a mail forward than an actual email.

Assuming it's remotely true (and there's good reason for thinking it isn't), it still means the FBI director was negligent in their choice of personal email provider, that the email provider had incompetent security, and that the government's failure to either have an Internet Czar (the post exists) or to enforce high standards on Internet services are a threat to the security of the nation (since we already know malware can cross airgaps through negligence, the DoD has been hit that way a few times). The FBI director could have copied unknown quantities of malware onto government machines through lax standards, any of which could have delivered classified information over the Internet (we know this because it has also happened to the DoD).

In short, the existence of the hack is a minor concern relative to every single implication that hack has.

I do full drive encryption locally on a Mac, I choose not to use my Apple ID for rescue purposes. My rescue key is displayed on the screen, this key never leaves my system, Apple never sees it. Hence when Apple is ordered by a court to provide the key they are unable to comply. Unlike instances where the user chose to use their Apple ID for rescue.

I'd note that upgrades are limited in the Pro. Intel based has PCIE3, Apple Silicon PCIE4. So GPUs would be stuck at a generation or two behind.