[josteink]

Linux is actually not half bad nowadays. It's not 2001 anymore.

I've migrated my main laptop from Windows 8 to Elementary OS and the only complaint from my very non-technical SO is that things "are different" (i.e. the close button is in upper left corner of the window).

Apart from that, everything just works. In fact it all worked out of the box, with the noticable exception of Skype.

Linux is turning into a pretty viable option. Really.

[elnate]

Things like the close button position irk me quite a lot. Are there ways to make it look as simliar as possible to win7?

[dkersten]

Of course there are. It is the forever configurable Linux after all. But since the discussion was about Apple products having the close button on the left is a benefit ;-)

But really these things are frustrations at first but you will learn the differences and get over them very very quickly. Just ask anyone who switched from win to osx.

[BitMastro]

There are ways, but maybe KDE is a better alternative