What I read from the original quote is that the Linux community can be hostile to complainers, and they will make you feel bad for asking a "stupid" question.
Most applications have minimal configuration, simple things like preventing the laptop to suspend when closing the lid are hard to achieve
I have a friend that's fighting this as well. It appears the only option is to get a usb plug to fake the OS into thinking an external monitor is attached. The plugs are very inexpensive. Less than $10 US.
You're very on-point about how little capability you have to alter the UI in MacOS compared to Windows and Linux WMs. I would dispute the following, however.
Finally, you often haven little control over your own data. Watching the movie you bought on iTunes on an non-Apple device is very hard.
iTunes is not requisite to anything on MacOS -- and neither is iCloud. You have as much control over your data as you want. On Windows, you have less control over your data -- or at least what Windows wants MS to know about your data.
Compared to macOS, you have more control over hardware. For instance, you can buy a new battery when the one you use is failing instead of buying a completely new device.
You can get the battery replaced in Macs, and it's fairly reasonable compared to replacing the whole machine. The prices are on Apple's website. Whether or not you can replace your own battery on a Windows device has nothing to do with the OS. Also, Windows runs on Macs!
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What I read from the original quote is that the Linux community can be hostile to complainers, and they will make you feel bad for asking a "stupid" question.
I have a friend that's fighting this as well. It appears the only option is to get a usb plug to fake the OS into thinking an external monitor is attached. The plugs are very inexpensive. Less than $10 US.
You're very on-point about how little capability you have to alter the UI in MacOS compared to Windows and Linux WMs. I would dispute the following, however.
iTunes is not requisite to anything on MacOS -- and neither is iCloud. You have as much control over your data as you want. On Windows, you have less control over your data -- or at least what Windows wants MS to know about your data.
You can get the battery replaced in Macs, and it's fairly reasonable compared to replacing the whole machine. The prices are on Apple's website. Whether or not you can replace your own battery on a Windows device has nothing to do with the OS. Also, Windows runs on Macs!