[jmyeet]

You can run Linux on Mac hardware. Linus Torvalds seems to have been doing this for the last decade.

Personally I find Linux desktop environments to be beyond awful with zero hope for salvation but to each their own. I certainly recognize a lot of the shortcomings of OSX but, more than anything, I don't want something I have to endlessly tinker with to get working (and keep working). For me, out of the box experience is paramount.