Pook,
I enjoyed your post. All my "Mac" friends are true believers and most just roll their eyes at Windows.
Someone sent me a Pizzolla "rant" recently and he was running his Windows-based VC software on a Mac, much like you run RDSS.
I live in a Linux world most of the time and dual-boot into Windows only to run RDSS. I know that Windows 10 is sending all of my personal information back to Microsoft but all they're getting in horse racing stuff. I wonder what their data-miners will make of that.