This is really not a good argument. OP ran into a random edge case bug, and, being a power user, decided to do what power users do: tinker and google. What OP

This is really not a good argument. OP ran into a random edge case bug, and, being a power user, decided to do what power users do: tinker and google. What OP could have done, which you most definitely could not do in 2000 with Linux, is go to an Apple store and have them try and sort it out for you. Ehile they might not succeed, I am willing to bet they could at least get some kind of solution to work. Also, Apple is nothing like Linux in 2000. My mother can use OS X really easily. My mother food never in a million years use Linux in the year 2000. This is a stupid article written by a bitter user who found a random bug.