That is a very childish thing to say. Windows has A LOT of problems. But it easy to use. Linux is still a tehnical operating system. And not everyone has the time or the know how to use it. And I use both. Plus, the majority of laptops and pcs come with windows, and installing Linux is not that simple. It will be at least 10 years before it becomes a somewhat widely used OS, with the younger generations being more used to tehnology in general.
I guess in a way they are stuck to a form factor, as slim as possible. And they got stuck so they had to do something. But then why would they make everything locked to the system by hardware id. It just seems that they used the speed argument to justify anti consumer pactices.
This is an argument that just gets repeted. My question is this, is a macbook faster than a gaming pc? Because that has replaceble ram, cpu, gpu, ssd, etc. If yes, then please seek help.