On why you should consider OS X
You can put visual effect layers on top of Windows or Linux, but it’s just painting a turd. Instead of ordinary frustration and time-wasting, you get pretty frustration and time-wasting. (And that’s subjective — personally, I find Vista’s Aero and the Linux “eye candy” add-ons to be garish, ugly, tacky, and completely missing the point.)
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Use a Mac for 6 months, and you’ll wonder why you ever used anything else.
As a happy Mac user for the last five years, I couldn’t agree more. I’ve used Windows for the last fifteen years. Ten at home, and the last five through my job as an IT advisor. It is good for one thing and one thing only: Testing my patience. I have become a very, very patient man.