*yawn* – What the heck is the point?
I saw this article about customizing Ubuntu/Gnome so It would look like Mac OS X. Soo… you can get Gnome to look like OSX. Almost. Except for all the extra-sexy GUI stuff that requires dubious hacks that never work 100% on all hardware anyway, and without the consistent look-and-feel that OSX has, since few Linux apps tend to use remotely the same toolkits. And you will still have to battle with things like external monitors, new mice, keyboards and synchronizing your phone and PDA over bluetooth against your particular choice of unfinished pieces of PIM software…
So why bother running Linux on the desktop? It’s hardly worth it. I made the switch to OSX (I bought a MacBook) a month ago, and I have never looked back. Everything that annoyed me with Linux is now surprisingly easy and intuitive. Even paying for software is easy when I for $10 can get an actual product that solves the task with which I am struggeling instead of having to download an half-finished proof-of-concept that almost works for 10% of the time from Sourceforge. The other 90% of the time you spend waiting for updates that normally fixes two bugs, introduces four altered command line switches and crashes in a way that renders your data useless.
However, as an server OS Linux is actually quite good, I would not dream of replacing Linux with OSX for that kind of use. But on the desktop… Hell yeah.
