A little bit of everything except Android because Google doesn’t want me to have an account anymore. I had deleted my old account last summer and now if I try to make a new one they figure out I’m the same person and cancel it because of the multiple account rule—somehow they think my previous account still exists… probably their 🤬AI is hallucinating that it still exists. And going through the incredible hassle of getting to real people and resolving things is more trouble than Google is worth to me at this time. Screw ‘em.

I’ve been kind of rotating between MacOS, Windows, and Linux on M4 Pro Mac mini/RTX 4060 gaming laptop. iOS/iPadOS don’t change for mobile—I have no issues with my iPhone 16e & M2 iPad Air 11, the latter now with a Magic Keyboard I got myself for Christmas. I like it.

Windows 11 on the 1TB SSD on my Lenovo Legion gaming laptop is minimized, cleaned of crapware and neutered so that it never checks for updates (via Titus Windows Utility). It’s only for gaming that won’t play well on Mac or Linux, so only rarely connected to the internet (for Steam, GOG & NexusMods downloads). Often, if possible, I’ll download on my iPhone and transfer to the laptop via the LocalSend app.

Mac by preference for anything else.

Linux on my laptop’s 2TB SSD for an occasional, temporary change of pace—it always breaks my Skyrim modded setup sooner or later no matter what distro I try (too many dependencies maintained by too many different hobby/spare time programmers… most of whom hate Nvidia)—and I’ve gone through a dozen different ones in the past six months.

Kindle Paperwhite + Scribe round it out. I’m pretty satisfied with my assortment of devices at this time. Which is fortunate since the 🤬AI-bubble high-prices & shortage of RAM makes getting new stuff most likely out of my budget for a long time to come. Rumor has it that Valve will probably delay the Steam Machine for a better time some years from now. The price will be too high to be successful right now. 😿

well, it is a Vector program. if it was Raster based that might be a more glaring issue, but I know a few vector artists that make due with trackpad/mouse alone.

"I understand @dstrauss waffling back and forth trying to make one or the other system work while being endlessly frustrated by the way things work whichever way you end up trying to go."

Know exactly what you want/need is the most frustrating process. I NEED a cellular Surface Pro on an M5 running MacOS! I'm biding my time with an M4 MacBook Pro (16gb/1tb) with a M1 iPad Pro (16gb/1tb), but still have little hope of getting that from the iPad line BECAUSE it can't run full APPLICATIONS. Apps are the bane of the tablet workld because inevitably some feature that you NEED get sompromised away in order to make it an APP and not an APPLICATION.

@violajack - I'm runninig Outlook on my IPad Pro, so adding a second email account was a snap from the hamburger menu in the upper left corner - it opens the account details list (showing iInbox, Sent. Deleted, etc,) with a small icon on hte left margin to add accounts). Despite a lot of "hate" for Outlook I still find it better on a Mac/iPad than the built in eMail App.

… And it’s bundled into a “forever free” version 3 package.

The Canva AI stuff might be annoying. We’ll see.