mac users are so downtrodden I can't find it in me to hurt them more
Not really, I deal with Apple customers constantly. They're uniformly egotistical.
The most common thread is cluelessness, unfortunately, since the Mac OS kernel is innately stable, and their proprietary hardware is admittedly high quality, but the vast majority of Mac fans seem to be people who think Apple makes using their computer easier.
The real problem with Apple is intellectual property. Windows users can't stand Apple's OS because a lot of user interface decisions are un-intuitive. Thing is, they're only different because they
have to be.
Basically the good features of both OS UI's that are mutually exclusive are such because the entire industry is in a mexican standoff over copyright law, with every competitor holding back all the others' advancement.
There's that markup too, but the price gap isn't as large as people claim when comparing to competing proprietary/portable devices of equal build quality.
There are lots of reasons to hate Apple, for example it'd be
real great if the iterative versions of their products were labeled
in any legible manner of nomenclature at ****ing all such that an uninformed observer could scry which was newer without memorizing model numbers or which angle each series sits on the unlabeled boxes.
Nope, there were go, I'm seething. It goes both ways though. Today a guy who (gasp)
can build his own computers (kowtow) raged about the latest Macbook having only a USB-C port; which having only one USB port does blow, but he was just ignorant of what USB-C is and that it's actually awesome in a bunch of ways and probably going to become the new ubiquitous standard.