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Uh, What? Mainstream hardware support from OSX?

Not only does it have poor support for common hardware, it has artificially restricted support. What it does support, it supports reasonably well, but that hardly qualifies OSX as a system that supports mainstream hardware.

Is GTK really a benefit compared to Cocoa?

Yeah, Cocoa is hot and all, but just try getting that nice shiny Cocoa app of yours running on all three of OS X, Linux, and Windows...

If you want to write a cross-platform app, I argue that GTK is still not a very good solution. I wonder how Adobe is progressing with their cross-platform Cocoa-based CS5.

You'd probably be better off with wxWidgets or Qt than GTK.

OS X does provide most of the benefits of Linux, except for large portions of the OS being closed source.

You get a terminal with bash or whatever shell you wish, which works great (none of the Cygwin crap). You can compile most non-GUI Linux apps for OS X (and many GUI ones). Etc.

I rarely run into things that I can do on Linux that I can't do on OS X.