>The notion that shit is all broken in Linux and a bed of roses in OSX is nonsense.
No. Stuff just works 80% good in OS X and 60% good in Linux.
And there's stuff like video editing, audio editing, multimedia work, etc, that works 90% good in OS X and 20% in Linux.
On the other hand, on the CLI, Linux works 95% and OS X works 60%.
The numbers are pulled out of my ass, but are what I subjective feel as a long time UNIX (Sun OS, HPUX), Windows (3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, 7), Linux (RedHat 5.2 IIRC, Mandrake, Debian 3+, now Ubuntu and Centos 6.x) and OS X (10.3 onwards) user.
So that's that.
And don't get me started with the continuous move to different libs, infrastructure changes underneath, multimedia frameworks, general brokeness and projects that start with high hopes only to be abandoned after 1 year, Gnome 3 and KDE 4, etc etc.
Wouldn't expect much of a modern desktop experience from RedHat or CentOS, and Debian isn't exactly up-to-speed either: Stonehenge for stability ;-)
Not a problem, for the multimedia deficiencies you mention, Windows VM does the trick here, and no need for dual boot (although I have that as well to flash BIOS or do other Windows required hardware mod'ing).
Of course, if you're a musician, video editor, or designer, you'd be more inclined to work on a Mac anyway (or perhaps PC/Windows) -- Linux would be the last choice more than likely.
I agree completely that Gnome 3 is far from a joy; it's pushing me toward a DE-less stack actually.
No. Stuff just works 80% good in OS X and 60% good in Linux.
And there's stuff like video editing, audio editing, multimedia work, etc, that works 90% good in OS X and 20% in Linux.
On the other hand, on the CLI, Linux works 95% and OS X works 60%.
The numbers are pulled out of my ass, but are what I subjective feel as a long time UNIX (Sun OS, HPUX), Windows (3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, 7), Linux (RedHat 5.2 IIRC, Mandrake, Debian 3+, now Ubuntu and Centos 6.x) and OS X (10.3 onwards) user.
So that's that.
And don't get me started with the continuous move to different libs, infrastructure changes underneath, multimedia frameworks, general brokeness and projects that start with high hopes only to be abandoned after 1 year, Gnome 3 and KDE 4, etc etc.