> Or if they desperately need photoshop or whatever, get a mac.
I'm kind of in that situation and I don't thing going with Mac and the Apple ecosystem really is better than trying to use Windows 10 as long as possible on an older Thinkpad.
Didn't really get the hang of it to phrase it that way.
Everybody who's using tools like Photoshop professionally has been "shaped" to feel well in the Adobe ecosystem. I doubt that's good but that's how it is.
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, they all feel and work similiar which helps with transitioning/switching between these tools without big issues.
Now take Gimp, Inkscape and Scribus against that. Everything looks different and probably works different, too. I need to get work done, not learn three seperate programs. Also Scribus seems to be dead, latest Dev blog entry is from 2016.
Serif is doing great work with Affinity, but Adobe is still going strong and defines the professional industry. As long as that's the case we're stuck with Windows/Macs for professional work.
I'm kind of in that situation and I don't thing going with Mac and the Apple ecosystem really is better than trying to use Windows 10 as long as possible on an older Thinkpad.