I have been using MS since 1985.
I am for the first time, seriously considering the change.
Switched to a Mac in 2011.
Absolutely NO PROBLEMS.
“I am for the first time, seriously considering the change.”
Get an old laptop and install Linux Mint. Just play with it for a while. I think you will find that it works fine and then maybe you would be comfortable starting to transition over.
I use a password manager for the official record of my passwords, but for day to day use I will let them stick in Brave as well. But, I use may manager to generate new passwords, so they are always in there first
You couldn't choose a better time, the new Mac Mini smokes most computers out there and reasonable price for such a power house. Brave runs fine on Mac but so does Safari and you can save passwords in either one to your cloud drive. You can always refuse updates on the Mac unless you set it to automatically update. I used Apple before Mac forced the Apple II GS into the dustbin of history them switched to Mac and never looked back. I have owned several PCs in my time even kept Windows running on my Macs most of the time through SoftPC but just couldn't force myself to downgrade to the PC. Compare side by side a PC Screen running the same software on the Mac and see which one you would really rather look at all day, will make choice easy.
I was using ms from dos 1.1. It was label IBM PC dos but it was ms. After win 2000 I switched to Linux then to a iMac 🖥. If I need Linux or windoze for some reason, I run them in a Virtualbox on the 💻 book pro.
Apple’s hardware and software are very well done.