Are we to suggest buying Microsoft instead? Windows login and forced Microsoft accounts are a thing. I try to justify buying anything but apple for every purchase. Unfortunately, everyone else insists on making their products worse at a faster rate than apple.
We are talking about computer hardware, Microsoft or the OS vendor is irrelevant. For the record you can install Linux on many Surface devices unimpeded.
The hardware and the software go hand in hand. Both hardware and software from non-apple products is inferior. I wish it were not the case, but here we are. I run Linux on my server & Windows on my desktop. The windows desktop has destroyed itself multiple times on forced updates. All my Android phones fall apart or have major features stop working around the 20 month mark. All my apple devices have lasted, never crashed, and never suddenly make me think about something other than what I picked up the device for. Installing Linux is trivial. It has it's own problems. Ultimately, that is why I've landed where I've landed. Sadly, Apple is the least terrible experience of all those options.
