I recently acquired a MacBook after using a variety of standard laptops with Linux installed on them. In my experience, the Mac is better as a /consumer/ lapto

I recently acquired a MacBook after using a variety of standard laptops with Linux installed on them. In my experience, the Mac is better as a /consumer/ laptop, while the Linux box is better as a /geek/ laptop. I'm sure that I'll get better at getting under the Mac's hood at some point, but right now it's frustrating to have to use GUI tools for everything. In general, everything (apps, UI) in Mac are prettier and easier to use than their *nix counterparts, but /far/ less functional. Also, Mac OS X is internally UNIX-y enough to make me /think/ that things still work in the same way, but are different enough to make me sorely disappointed when I find out that I was mistaken.