I see a number of posts querying why I'm changing from macOS to MSWin. I'll provide one complete answer here and point to this in responses to these posts.

Firstly, this is a done deal. The hardware and software have been ordered, paid for, and I'm currently awaiting delivery. If this was a terrible decision, then I will have learned a rather expensive lesson; however, at this stage I'm past the point of no return.

This wasn't a philosophical decision. I've been using UNIX-style OSes since the '80s and, if Linux (or similar) fulfilled my needs, that's the direction in which I would have gone.

I have a number of personal projects which only work — or, at least, work to the level I require — on MSWin. Some are newer projects where I've found macOS lacking; some are older projects which I used to run under MSWin but have been found to be suboptimal under macOS.

I'm a programmer by trade and work remotely from home. My "play" computer is also my "work" computer. For the most part, I ssh to a company machine and work on that; the OS from which I run ssh makes little difference. However, there are some projects that require applications that run on an MSWin platform: RDP solutions are slow and have other annoyances; running these applications locally would be a boon.

I don't believe there's a perfect solution here. I've simply picked that which I think will work best for my specific requirements. I appreciate that other people's requirements will differ and other solutions will work best for them.