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Because not everybody wants to spend days or weeks figuring out why their video or wireless drivers aren't working. They want to get to work.

Until OS X 10.7, it was a beautiful version of linux that just worked. "Less capable", ok, maybe, but I don't see it. My entire work environment (zsh+bash scripts+vim) seamlessly copies back and forth between linux and OS X. Most linux utilities are available via homebrew. Those that aren't I compile from source. It's just like any other linux distribution on that front. It's not perfect, but I get up and running a lot faster on OS X than on any linux distribution.

I'm on Fedora 19 now and in many way I have the same issues with linux I've had since I first installed Red Hat 7 in 2000. The lack of progress on certain fronts in the linux world is staggering.

[dkhenry]

I still don't understand the concept that Linux doesn't just work. I have built multiple desktops and used at least three labtops since 2005 all of which have run Linux and I have _never_ had a hardware issue that wasn't caused by me messing with things. More so then windows and OSX everything has always just worked on Linux. I have had issues with windows needing drivers and OSX not letting me actually use my hardware ( try setting the resolution on a retina macbook ) but the _only_ issue I ever had with Linux was that I needed a special kernel to get my Chromebook pixel to have a working touchscreen.

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You've never run an NVidia graphics card or had a broadcom wireless card? What about discrete graphics? My current peccadillo is the nouveau driver crashes my laptop if I try to put it to sleep. My wireless card also disconnects intermittently and has difficulties coming back from sleep. These are three major areas for a laptop that have never quite worked right out of the box: graphics, wireless and power management.

I don't want to spend days (weeks!) fixing this stuff and never quite getting 100% there, yet that's exactly what I'm doing right now. Since 10.7, OS X has become insufferable to use, so I switched back to Fedora.

I'm not trying to say OS X is perfect nor that linux is crap. But categorizing linux as "just works" and OS X as "less capable" are provably false. There's also a real vacuum right now for a developer OS that's powerful, easy to use and graphically beautiful. OS X used to fit that bill, but doesn't anymore. Linux never will.

[stcredzero]

Snow Leopard was just beautiful! It's been downhill from a developer standpoint since.