Sorry but I have to disagree with this. I am an RHCE and have been using Unix and Linux for as long as I can remember. I recently went out and bought a mac mini and a powerbook. Why? Because I was given one for two weeks by apple to trial, and in that period I was way more productive than I had been on either Windows or Linux desktops.
The desktop environment on macs (especially with Tiger) is designed with a certain ethos that I have not seen achieved by any other graphical environment.
It sucks for me that I have to use a mac to be productive on the desktop, however I still put in linux servers for everything unless a client requires exchange.
For at least the next 5 years or so, I dont see that things will change enough to bring me around to using a linux desktop again. I firmly believe that the reason linux is so far behind is due to the non-interest in developing a standards based gui environment - things are starting to take shape, but they have taken so long to get where they are now.
Given the historical focus on stability and speed of the OS, it will be interesting to see what happens when developers get serious about the operating environment - even with the relatively small amount of progress made to date, putting something like gnome or kde on the desktop of a machine over two years old is a killer (in my opinion and based on the way I would expect a gui to respond on hardware of that age).
There are definately quirks with OSX as there are with any other desktop platform, but for me right now, its the best I can find, and that I think is the key to all of this - it is an individual thing (excluding some imposed things like exchange etc where people might not have any choice in the matter).
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Sorry but I have to disagree with this. I am an RHCE and have been using Unix and Linux for as long as I can remember. I recently went out and bought a mac mini and a powerbook. Why? Because I was given one for two weeks by apple to trial, and in that period I was way more productive than I had been on either Windows or Linux desktops.
The desktop environment on macs (especially with Tiger) is designed with a certain ethos that I have not seen achieved by any other graphical environment.
It sucks for me that I have to use a mac to be productive on the desktop, however I still put in linux servers for everything unless a client requires exchange.
For at least the next 5 years or so, I dont see that things will change enough to bring me around to using a linux desktop again. I firmly believe that the reason linux is so far behind is due to the non-interest in developing a standards based gui environment - things are starting to take shape, but they have taken so long to get where they are now.
Given the historical focus on stability and speed of the OS, it will be interesting to see what happens when developers get serious about the operating environment - even with the relatively small amount of progress made to date, putting something like gnome or kde on the desktop of a machine over two years old is a killer (in my opinion and based on the way I would expect a gui to respond on hardware of that age).
There are definately quirks with OSX as there are with any other desktop platform, but for me right now, its the best I can find, and that I think is the key to all of this - it is an individual thing (excluding some imposed things like exchange etc where people might not have any choice in the matter).