I find OSX to at least be a tolerable platform once I found out about the existence of homebrew, but as a development platform for anything other then platform-

I find OSX to at least be a tolerable platform once I found out about the existence of homebrew, but as a development platform for anything other then platform-specific software, linux is peerless and I recommend it as a superior experience. If your goal, on the other hand, is to browse web pages, edit documents via wysiwyg interfaces, and maybe play some games, there really is nothing wrong from a UX perspective about Windows or OSX, and at least some minor problems with linux.