Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.
I came from a windows background, tinkered with Linux for a few years on and off, and when I started my current job I was given a Macbook Pro.  After a few months of using it I as so frustrated, and found myself spending more and more time in my Ubuntu virtual machine, that when they were ordering new MBPs for the design team I offered to give mine up to a designer and buy a ThinkPad, thus saving the company over $1,000.  I've been running Ubuntu (and recently Linux Mint) full time for both work and personal use for a year and a half.<p>In OSX you can only resize a window in the bottom right corner, in Ubuntu I can resize from any corner, or I can hold Alt and middle click anywhere near a corner of a window to start resizing it.  No more hunting for the resize sweetspot.<p>When I click the Maximize button on OSX, it doesn't actually maximize the window 99% of the time, it just picks a seemingly random size.  I saw an app a while ago that would let you control how your OSX apps are resized when you maximize them, but if I have to buy an app just to make my OS do what it should do anyway, there's something wrong.<p>I need 10 different apps on a Mac just to do what I can do out of the box in Ubuntu.  Nautilus can access Windows network shares, SSH/SFTP/FTP access, and can mount NTFS, HFS, and pretty much any other filesystem type there is.<p>On a new linux machine I can apt-get most anything, but if I do need to compile something I just apt-get build-essentials and I'm ready to go, on OSX you have to download a DVD just to be able to compile stuff from source.<p>I just want to see hidden files in Finder, why is that so hard?  Why do I have to google it and use a 3+ key combination to enable showing hidden files?  I'm all for keyboard shortcuts, I'm a keyboard man, but until I learn and memorize them, you should put them in the menu where I can find them with a little hunting.<p>And that reminds me, why can't I type a path in Finder?  I prefer an address bar, where I can type a path to a directory I want to view, but noooo, I have to click around, and if it's a really deep folder I'm trying to get to I'm screwed.<p>I like Home and End keys.  Where are they?<p>In the default Terminal app, there are no shortcuts (at least none that I could figure out) for moving around the text I'm typing quickly, like going forward and back a whole word, or going Home or End, you have to hold down the left or right arrows for a while.<p>Maybe for some people this locked down, dumbed down environment works for them.  Maybe some people love learning the myriad of keyboard shortcuts needed to get stuff done on a Mac, but I prefer Ubuntu, I can get stuff done a lot faster and without wanting to kill myself.