> Like...???
Mainly it seems harder to get to them to administer the system (as a user). I admit, maybe in general that's a good thing for most users... and certainly Apple's GUI isolates the user from the system guts even more; but on a Mac all the Unix tools are right there in a terminal/X11 window.
I find the Vista/Win7 GUI off-putting. It "distances" me from the system guts in a way I find obnoxious. But that might just be me.
Probably not just you. We get used to having access to the real power under the hood. When it's hard to reach it's very annoying. But then we (or at least you) know what we're doing. Most just want the job to be over with ASAP regardless of the hoops they have to jump through to get there.
Thanks for the info. It doesn't sound insurmountable.