I have a friend who got into mac shortly after I did. While I was happy about how much more low maintenance this platform was, he saw nothing but problems. I

I have a friend who got into mac shortly after I did. While I was happy about how much more low maintenance this platform was, he saw nothing but problems. I asked him what he was seeing and I was pretty shocked. "Why do you want to replace your keyboard driver?", etc. What I've found is that in Mac it really does help if you try to find the mac way and use it. This didn't work on Windows because windows has too many problems (so many wrong defaults, system breaking on its own under relatively normal usage, etc.). It doesn't work with Linux either because the only "Linux way" I can see is to have your own way (i.e. infinite customization potential). With Mac the system is very stable (it does have issues, especially around multiple users logged in at the same time, but overall it's very good) and most of the defaults are quite sensible once you get used to them. If you refuse to "go mac" then you're setting yourself up for a continuous upstream battle of never ending customization. And if you're going to spend so much time administrating your machine instead of using it you may as well use Windows or Linux.