having a curator decide APIs and standards (OS X) certainly wins over an mashup of billions of packages (Debian). That's your opinion, and you're entitled to i

having a curator decide APIs and standards (OS X) certainly wins over an mashup of billions of packages (Debian). That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it, but it certainly doesn't make it true. To me, Debian has always been the most elegant of operating systems, with a lot of thought put into how things are laid out and making sure that literally thousands and thousands of programs play very nicely together, not to mention compile and run properly on a multitude of architectures. And while I'm sure you can drag up some anecdotes about how Debian didn't detect some guy's wireless chipset, I can find complaints of things in OSX (right in the replies to this article!) that I've never had a problem with in Debian. Not to mention I don't like being told what I can and cannot do with my hardware.