Boy you are going to be in big trouble with the Microsoft masochists here. You stated above that you successfully used an iMac and you made disparaging comment about viruses. The Microsoft guys love fighting viruses and take offense at posters who don’t support viruses. Just sayin’ be careful. Maybe it’s best to let them have their viruses and spend weeks searching for replacement fans and motherboards and 5 inch floppy drives. Just don’t suggest they consider doing something that might help them. It gets then all angry.
I do like your sense of humor. Really, no /sarc intended.
You should perhaps get on Swordmaker's Apple/Mac ping list. I'm on it and find it newsworthy and entertaining, so I recommend you contact Swordmaker by FReepmail and get on the list. He is an unabashed Apple fan, and of course the Apple threads draw some flak from the Apple haters on the site, but such is life in the fast lane.
You might also want to be on ShadowAce's Tech ping list, which covers (mostly computer) tech of most sorts. ShadowAce is himself a Linux fan. There aren't nearly as many Linux haters as Apple haters, but there have been a few notable ones. These days it's relatively quiet in that regard.
It probably doesn't hurt that FreeRepublic itself runs on Linux.
There is, unfortunately, no Microsoft/Windows ping list. I have decried this unseemly lack for years, to no avail. I would have started one myself, but for two killer reasons:
Cheers!