I am not using Linux. Sorry, I’ve seen how long it takes to boot up, what passes for a display manager, configuration management, inconsistent application look and feel, lack of Time Machine, Spotlight, Target Disk Mode, etc...
It’s fine in a back room somewhere, but it’s not a desktop environment I can live with as of today.
I would miss being able to print to PDF from any application, best Postscript support in the industry, lagless sleep modes, etc... And my kids love their iMac. It is unobtrusive enough to live in the family room, with zero noise. We can also use it as a Media player (I have a NAS that serves up all of our media content) for the kids’ content in the family room. The Apple Remote allows us to use Front Row very elegantly without the keyboard or mouse.
I like Instruments for development, I like the fact that you can profile any application on the system. I like XCode. I like the myriad development tools that are free.
With Time Machine on an external drive, I no longer have to worry about my kids or wife screwing up the machine. I can boot off of a Time Machine backup. And even my wife can figure out how to selectively restore from Time Machine.
And if I need to use OpenSource Linux applications, most of them have already been ported. Worst case, is you have to use the X11 environment that Apple provides on the OS X disc.
You do yourself no service by using terms like Macintrash my friend. If you stopped doing business with every company that had liberals in it, you’d be amazed by what you’d have to give up.
The Mac works well, because you don’t have to do much work to use it. My time is worth far more than the extra $$$ I’d have saved by going Linux.
Not under Linux you wouldn't. Printing to PDF is just as simple.
I use Linux everyday as my main computer. My wife and kids also use it as their everyday computers. Printing, networking, and gaming are no problems for any of them.
You are certainly free to use what you like. I guess its the pompous nature of Macintosh users that gets my crawl ;-)
You haven’t mentioned one thing that a Linux variant couldn’t do. You just like being a mac user. Thats fine w/me. Its your money.