Usually that does work but there are a few issues. First of all, since there is no package management to speak of, you often run into dependency hell (A requir

Usually that does work but there are a few issues. First of all, since there is no package management to speak of, you often run into dependency hell (A requires B requires C requires D ...). Thankfully, we have macports (think of it like a limited version of apt) to get around most of those problems. The real issue, for graphical apps at least, is that X11 apps don't look and feel like native Mac apps which run on Quartz (correct me if I'm mistaken).