With UNIX you have to compile the apps to work on your system and that’s what keeps me from jumping on Linux. It’s just too much a PITA. Windows is just too dominate to give up.
It used to be Macs had a niche market with video and photos but now windows even does it at worst on par and at best better than Mac software.
That is not true with the Mac. Everything you install on a Mac these days is a binary. You just download the file, the download mounts as a disk image, drag the program into your Application folder or any other folder that you choose, and that's it. It's installed. It couldn't be simpler.
As a programmer, the Mac comes with every major scripting language a programmer could want already installed: Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP. Also comes with Java. I also needed a C compiler for writing C, C++ and Objective C programs. All it took was one free download from Apple's website of Xcode. It installed and that was it. Xcode is a great IDE.
With UNIX you have to compile the apps to work on your system and that’s what keeps me from jumping on Linux. It’s just too much a PITA.
Widows has nothing to compare with iPhoto or Aperture. All of the professional photographers are on Macs. That's also true of the graphics artists I know. And most of the competent programmers and Web developers I know have all moved to the Mac.