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Mac OS X is not the holy grail of operating systems or graphical user interfaces—that would have proper maximization functionality standard instead of merely unpredictable functionality from a misleadingly named "zoom" button with a plus-symbol that can make windows smaller and do other unexpected things that do not seem to have anything to do with plus-symbols and it would call for multiple mouse or trackpad buttons standard, even on notebooks.
Zing!
Perfect though Mac OS X may not be, I do miss having a Mac. Windows Vista may look prettier than earlier versions of Windows and include better desktop search and widgets and have a much larger selection of games than Mac OS X (some of which even run without crashing like Oblivion tends to do from time to time during gameplay and frequently when quitting), but using Windows Vista has been a hassle for me—much more so than using Windows XP and much, much more so than using Mac OS X. If I wanted using a computer to be a significant hassle, I would be using GNU/Linux as my main operating system.
Of course, even GNU/Linux systems are slowly but surely getting more user-friendly and while such simple tasks as changing screen resolutions can still be ordeals in even the friendlier of GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, other tasks such as getting printers to work can be faster and more reliable than under Windows Vista. No other operating system seems to just work the way Mac OS X does, though, and my livelihood requires applications that are simply not available for GNU/Linux and which seem unlikely to ever be feasibly replaceable by alternatives, so until that software comes to GNU/Linux—whether despite the prevalent socialist enmity toward commercial and proprietary software or through other circumstances—I cannot feasibly use any distribution of GNU/Linux as my main workstation operating system regardless of how user-friendly they or any desktop environments they use may become.
I simply can't afford a Mac right now—not even a Mac mini—but hopefully that will change soon. I could really use one for both work and school.
