I have been using Linux for a long time and since using a Mac, I really dig
the desktop. Since it runs a scaled version of BSD, it is like having two OSs
in one.

“Under every bright, shiny Mac desktop beats a Unix heart named Darwin.
Darwin, in turn, is built on top of Mach 3.0 operating-system services,
which run on top of the 4.4 BSD UNIX operating system. KDE and GNOME have
both gotten much better, but let’s get real. They’re not even in the same
ballpark. It comes down to fundamentals. Linux desktops come from developers
whose primary interest has always been building powerful tools that give the
informed user almost limitless power over how his or her machine works. The
key words here are ‘informed’ and ‘power.’

“Today’s Mac desktop comes from decades of a different design philosophy,
where ease of use is all. But most desktop users, and certainly most
enterprise desktop users, are not power users. They want their systems to be
easy to use and for their applications to work. To them, the fact that GNOME
configuration management editor GConf-editor lets a GNOME power user
fine-tune everything on the desktop to their fondest wishes is less than
meaningless-it’s useless. Today’s business users also want the applications
they already know. StarOffice and OpenOffice are all fine and good but, like
it or lump it, most users want the applications they know from Windows, and
the Mac gives them most of those. Indeed, Microsoft just released the first
service pack for Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac. [Continued…]”