[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.