I use Linux and OSX on Apple/PPC hardware. I use both because they both offer me income. I enjoy them both, Linux for its power and speed, and OSX for its ease of use, and MacPPC hardware solutions so I can run both. Major revisions or strippings of the GUI on either system is meaningless to me and thus discountable, although I can see the value for others. I like to use and make tools for both systems, and then share and sell my services of support if others. In all, it comes down to one thing for me with hardware and software of any type...

"The right tool for the right job, for the right price"

Sometimes that price is freedom, sometimes that price is a check, and sometimes that price is a good feeling about doing the right thing (tm)... :)

I have worked for IBM, Apple, NeXT and Be, working at all levels of code, and sometimes with hardware. In 1997 I became disinfranchised with business and computers, left the industry and retired. With OSX where it is today I've reentered the programming field using mostly OSX because it has matured to the point again of usability. The inexpensive 'dog' eMac offering online, a few contract jobs to pay for it, and the fun of coding has pulled me back to the Mac a place I SWORE I would never come back. PPC Linux makes it all that much more exciting, and justifiable. Bit twiddling has been so much fun since the 6502s, with all the emulators I have on OSX and Linux, the PPC processor to play with in porting FORTH and making my SeaFORTH. I can't imagine why anyone would sit for 10-14 hours a day porting, coding new, or documenting any functionality on any machine of any type for those hours if s/he didn't enjoy it immensely. Quality coding is art, and the art of coding should be fun. Doh!