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Never done as OS X install, but I wouldn't say the install/upgrade process is any more difficult than a Windows install.

Flash and Netflix have always worked ok for me, but YMMV I guess.

You will have a smaller selection of software, but that is more a function of marketshare than the OS being open source.

So, I've love to know how you make Netflix working on Linux, seeing as how it requires Silverlight.

(and no, the netflix-desktop hack doesn't count, because it plays choppy, and doesn't work in a window)

It's actually easier, unless you're trying to do a clean install.

For some weird reason Apple made it utterly difficult to be able to make a clean install.

>For some weird reason Apple made it utterly difficult to be able to make a clean install.

Huh? I've made several clean installs. What's difficult about them?

The only "difficult" part is to copy the DMG to your USB or DVD media. Even that is like 3 steps you have to follow.

Apart from that it's exactly the same procedure as upgrading. Next, next, some preferences, done.

That's the difficult part, not for me, but for the vast majority of people who don't even know what a DMG is.

So just hold Command-R and boot into Internet Recovery. No disk required.

Yeah, I know that. The vast majority of people don't.