In a world where the bulk of my daily interactions happen through a digital interface, switching computing platforms changed just about everything in some way.I should pause a moment to acknowledge that I’m not a “Mac guy” or a “Windows guy.” I’ve been in tech since the web first became a thing, and I’ve run everything from Unix and Linux to Windows and macOS.The PC has a bigger, more flexible software ecosystem Because Windows constitutes roughly 76 percent of the global computing market share, and developers around the world who’ve never even seen a Mac in person are cranking out apps constantly, the numbers game here is obvious.So, before switching to Windows as my daily driver, I generally had to either run a virtual machine on my Mac, connect to a Raspberry Pi box running the apps I needed, or keep a cheap, spare Windows laptop around for occasional use.Robert Strohmeyer/Foundry For other media tasks, I found that Apple’s most challenging built-in app to replace is GarageBand, which is wildly better than any free equivalent I’ve found for Windows."