And yet, you never acknowledge any of the spycraft evil going on at microsuck.
Quite to the contrary. Many of the articles dayglowred has pinged in the past have concerned exactly that.
I think he's doing a pretty good job of using a pretty even hand on the articles. After all, most are posted by other folks. He just runs the ping list. In fact he does a much better job than I could because I personally think that MS is one of the greatest evils on the planet and the company has personally cost me more of my precious time in hair-pulling aggravation than any other that I can think of.
Unlike dayglowred, I'm pretty much a Linux guy. I respect what Apple has done with OSX, but have spent a grand total of probably about 3 hours actually using OSX, and that was mostly to attempt to recover data from my dear departed wife's Macbook so I could repurpose it to my mother in law.
I'm on the windows pinglist, not because I'm a user, but rather because those things that threaten Microsoft users tend to ultimately affect those of us who use superior operating systems, whether we want it to or not.
> Unlike dayglowred, I'm pretty much a Linux guy.
Actually, I'm overall more of an *IX guy than anything else, with a slight preference for BSD, and work very happily in Linux (Ubuntu and CentOS mostly) all day long.
My current preference for OS X as my home "on the metal" base OS is that it allows me to run EVERYTHING else in VMs if I wish. If I had any other hardware, I wouldn't be able to run OS X when I need to, and I find Apple hardware quite reliable and long-lasting.
The drawback of using OS X is, of course, that it's a walled garden -- you do things Apple's way, or the highway. But I mainly use OS X for mail, browsing, iTunes to manage device content, and to host all my various VMs, so it doesn't get in my way at all. Time Machine is a great, painless backup program.
Having VMs of everything gives me the widest possible OS and application palette, and being largely OS-agnostic by nature, that works best for me.
As with so much else in computing, YMMV...