I'm not for one to jump on the OS wars bandwagon, but i think what you're trying to say is: The mark of good equipment is how much it gets out of your way to le

I'm not for one to jump on the OS wars bandwagon, but i think what you're trying to say is: The mark of good equipment is how much it gets out of your way to let you do what you intend to do. You can take a Pulitzer-winning photo on a point&shoot, but you will have to trick it into behaving how you intend it to behave. Ditto for music instruments, race cars, bikes, or really anything that can be seen as a tool. The "professional" grade of these tools are the ones that usually get out of your way most, be it by giving you more knobs to tweak or less hurdles to jump over. Since the operating system and the computer are /my/ tools, I want them to get out of my way. My macbook and OS X do that. FreeBSD did that for me before that.