> While you may find it creaking, myself and many other people find the experience of using Apple software far better than any competing systems. I wouldn't wor

> While you may find it creaking, myself and many other people find the experience of using Apple software far better than any competing systems. I wouldn't work somewhere that asked me to use Windows. For me, and maybe I'm overly aesthetically sensitive, it would make my day to day life much worse. I agree: Windows is just embarrassingly bad. Fortunately, there is another … I've been using desktop Linux for almost twenty years, and it is in my experience superior to the Mac. It gets out of my way and lets me get my work done. It has multiple tiling window managers. It is the native environment for the best tools. It is truly free, both in terms of liberty and price. It runs on commodity hardware. It's fast. And, IMHO, it can be pretty too.