I've used windose and linux since 1995 I always though windose was a pile of crap but unfortunatly linux never has applications I like or want to use.
About 2 years ago a job I started doing has a mac and a "woman" now my girlfriend who was an ex-designer and mac enthusiast. I had a play around and realised that this was the nearest thing to commercial linux that you'd ever get and "in my opinion" had a few improvements over the original unix layout.
No way can I justify spending the cash on a real mac and to be honest my anti-capitalist nature would find it hard even if I could afford it. But that doesn't stop me from seeing and using a good thing.
The day someone puts a linux package together that is as well organised as this and has the application support that this does I'll have found my home till then hacking this is the best compromise I have between usability and freedom.