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I'm with you. I'm a Linux guy now - my home desktop and laptop have been "Microsoft-free" for several years. There are only 4 things listed here that I use regularly on Linux. The other 14, who cares. The nice thing is, with the online software repositories, all the others (or something similar or better) are at your fingertips anyway.

Even though I'm a Linux fan, I will give Apple and OS-X this. They are dirt simple to use. I got my (barely) computer literate mother-in-law set up with a Mac Book laptop and haven't heard from her since. (4+ months now) I used to be her PC support line, and hear from her a couple of times a month. When I got her set up, I managed to install a wireless access point on her network, connect the Mac to it (secure mode too!), download and install X11 libs and OpenOffice, and connect to her PC based printer. All that in less than an hour, never having touched a Mac before. Note, at least 15 min of that was spent convincing Win/XP on her old desktop to share its printer.