About The Bad: I agree except for the first point. I adore that macs go to sleep when you close them, and wake up almost instantly on opening. The white macbook does indeed not have much of a problem with smudging. This is mostly unavoidable on surfaces like the blackbook exterior. I’m happy with the standard key repeat settings (at least, I never change them), but more flexibility in that slider would be a good thing.

The Ugly: all of this is because you were used to things working differently. Happens to all of us when we switch platforms. I know of things that I’d like OSX to do, a whole bunch more that I’d like windows to do, and a couple that I’d like linux (GTK/GNOME, I don’t even touch Qt/KDE) to do. Switching means adjusting. At some point you get used to it. Oh except chatzilla. You need to fix that so /quit actually quits the app like the user would expect. Closing the window is a weird short cut that should never have been taken.

Anyway.

The Perfect OS isn’t out there yet. To me, OSX is the closest we have available right now. Easy enough for my mother to use without breaking it (she has a white macbook), yet powerful enough for me. If I find something better that runs on macs (I really, really dislike generic hardware with all its flashing lights and buttons and knobs and what-have-you) and I’ll be on it in no time flat.