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by __--__ 4542 days ago
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.