It's been said pretty often -- and I think it's true -- that the introduction and success of OS X drastically slowed the adoption of Linux as a mainstream deskt

It's been said pretty often -- and I think it's true -- that the introduction and success of OS X drastically slowed the adoption of Linux as a mainstream desktop option. I take no position on whether this was good or bad overall; it's just a statement of fact. Lots of us who would've otherwise needed to shift to Linux for LAMP development or whatever after the dot-com crash migrated to the Mac instead, because it meant a unix laptop that Just Works that also allowed us to run native MS Office, etc. That was a powerful value proposition (and remains one). " the writing is definitely on the wall for us Unix geeks who nevertheless carry a Macbook." I do not yet see this writing.