Linux drove me to get a Mac

[Kamran Khan]

After 7 years of Linux being my primary desktop operating system at  
home(I tinkered with Linux since the Walnut Creek days) I jumped to a  
MacBook with Leopard.  OS X is basically BSD UNIX with nice candy on  
top so you all the command tools that I came to love in UNIX and Linux  
are pretty much available.  OS X has better support for hardware,  
especially gadgets like cell phones and cameras.  Not as much as  
Windows but more then Linux and major vendors like Nokia release their  
software natively for OS X.  OS X has better support for games, some  
of the big games are native on OS X and of course there is Wine and  
Cedega.  OS X has much better integration between its applications  
like iCal and mail.app.  Lastly, overall OS X is more "polished" then  
Linux.  Linux as server operating system is excellent but when you  
move closer and closer to end user applications you see a lack of  
refinement, lack of polish, sometimes a lot of instability and very  
poor integration.  The fasciation of getting things to work with Linux  
has long since passed and when I buy a printer I pretty much just want  
to plug it in.  You pay a big premium for what is essentially PC  
hardware but so far it has proven to be the best desktop os I can  
find.  So long Linux, see you on embedded devices everywhere.
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