Actually, I stuck with GNOME2 for as long as I could. But then it got to feel like I was running Windows 3.11 in amongst Windows 7 contemporaries. Combined with

Actually, I stuck with GNOME2 for as long as I could. But then it got to feel like I was running Windows 3.11 in amongst Windows 7 contemporaries. Combined with the fact that I was writing OSX software, it made sense to buy a MacBook and virtualise all the OSes I was running, so Windows and my ancient comfortable version of Linux have their VMs still running. You're right though - it's impossible to change the UI on OSX (other than grey or blue for the buttons, that is all, and now with a "dark" menubar which I like) and Windows is limited. I too keep my proper Windows dualboot partition for playing games (hurray for Homeworld Remastered this month eh!). I think once we've been exposed to other OSes and use them daily for different things (I used to maintain racks of Linux and Windows servers of differing ages, some ancient machines along with new), the differences sort of fade and the rabid fanboyism for each OS gets wearisome. They each have their faults, their good points, and are all useful for getting stuff done, each with differing or potentially irritating approaches for doing that! I myself sigh using Windows 8/8.1 and find Explorer under Windows 7 to be irritating compared to the XP one but that's just me and I should get used to it. It will be interesting to see what Windows 10 brings.