> When something does not work in Linuxland the answer is still "open the terminal, enter a bunch of cryptic commands" and/or manually edit text-based config fi

> When something does not work in Linuxland the answer is still "open the terminal, enter a bunch of cryptic commands" and/or manually edit text-based config files. That's true in OSX too, though. After upgrading to 10.9 ("Mavericks") I had a 'systemstats' process taking up 100% CPU and >3GB of RAM at random points. Did some googling and reading through forum threads, and the solution was to muck with some BerkeleyDB files in a terminal. Is OSX an acceptable modern desktop OS? Windows in my experience has been even worse, in that for OSX there at least usually exists some arcane way of fixing your problem, while in Windows it's just "wipe and reinstall", because the problems are totally opaque. (I don't have great memories of the registry editor, either.)