Not at all. I think a lot would rather concentrate on building stuff, than trying to get their wifi to work in linux, or managing the latest updates that have broken gcc for some reason.
For most, I think OS X is linux but without the maintenance.
For most, I think OS X is linux but without the maintenance.
Also, the whole getting wifi to work thing is mostly solved now. All the wireless cards are Intel, and Intel pours a lot of money into making them work really well with Linux. So you pop in your Ubuntu or Moblin CD, install, and right click the little icon, just like on any other OS.
Basically, OS X sucks, Linux sucks, and Windows sucks. So there is no real reason to get super-excited about any of them -- they are all basically the same, with Linux marginally better in a few cases.
I've used OS X for 2 1/2 years now, and can't remember anything breaking :/
Before that I used linux on the desktop for maybe 8 years, and things broke every week. (Redhat, mandrake, gentoo, ubuntu)
Well there's your problem :)
Try Debian stable, and let me know if it ever breaks. (Debian unstable definitely does break, but not very often, and it's usually easy to fix. It works for me.)
As I say, 2 1/2 years on OS X, and I don't miss linux on the desktop one bit.
Incorrect. Security Update 2009-001 replaced a Perl component which some users had (inappropriately) upgraded themselves, causing breakage for those users. The "system Perl" worked fine as long as you hadn't touched it, though.
: The inappropriate part was touching the Perl install in /System. You don't do that.