I completely sympathize with Mark. I was an Apple hater for years, and was ecstatic when I discovered Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) and could move away from Windows as well. Then a good friend of mine convinced me to get an iPhone. I was hesitant at first, but after trying one I decided to go for it. Then I got a job where my choices were a MacBook Pro or a Dell with Vista. Three guesses which one I took (the first two don't c…
Full unix compatibility without easy, comprehensive & working BINARY package management (like debian, or archlinux) is still a big pain in the ass. Setting up something like the mysqldb library, mod_python, apache, and django can be a 1 hour production vs. the 5 minute production that it is on linux.