My anecdotal evidence using my MacBooks (3 since 2008) carry as much weight as anyone else's linux anecdotes. And osx is by no means perfect. I just have had

My anecdotal evidence using my MacBooks (3 since 2008) carry as much weight as anyone else's linux anecdotes. And osx is by no means perfect. I just have had far fewer problems related to hardware and drivers than I ever did on Linux. In 9 years of desktop linux, audio was a constant problem. It's been an extremely rare issue on my MacBooks. What it demonstrates is that even in 2011, the base issues of how audio should even work hadn't really been sorted out. oss vs alas vs pulseaudio vs whatever aren't issues I want to be concerning myself with - this is just one reason I left for the macbook world.