[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Nobody relies on commandlines anymore unless they wish to; self imposed. One is the linux way, one is the windows way.

[antiRepublicrat]

The difference is that the Linux way can update all of the apps on your system, if you got them all from the repository.

But as far as anything from Apple goes, I just see a bouncing ball on my OS X dock and know it's time to check out what's new by clicking on it. The I get the Apple version, which I must say is the nicest of the three:

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You were right. I was wrong.

This past weekend I set up my beloved SAL9000 home PC with a dual boot to WinXP and Linux Mint 6.0.
Holy crap, what an OS Mint is. I've been using Mepis on my laptop and Mint blows Mepis away.

Updating software packages and browsing for new ones is a breeze with the Mint Software Manager. Synaptic is good but the native Mint Software Manager is more intuitive and does the job in a very Winders-like fashion.

Plus, Compiz is The Bomb.
Now, there are still things that XP does better, but Linux Mint is so bloody fast on my Dual Core PC and I'll be using it for most of my PC time from here on out.

Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.