A few years ago before I entered university, my mother purchased me a Mac. I had grown up with PCs all my life, but I blindly believed "it was really preferenti

A few years ago before I entered university, my mother purchased me a Mac. I had grown up with PCs all my life, but I blindly believed "it was really preferential for using Photoshop", "artistic", bla, bla. That was when I thought I would go into graphic design, and all of my technological opinions were based on word-of-mouth from friends. Then I got into programming. Looking back, I'm glad that I had a Unixoid machine to start with, but the more I work in the command line, the more attractive Linux becomes. I would have defended Apple to the death 2 years ago, and now I can't wait to get something that isn't a black-box, hardware-wise, and a more malleable operating system . I ..might be turning into a Linux fanboy, but I'm much more concerned with functionality now.