I can't speak for anyone other than myself, naturally, but I was a very vocal Linux user until I got my first macbook and didn't have to google X-server error messages every time I did an upgrade. Getting various flavors of linux working was always exciting... and challenging and sometimes extremely frustrating. I think I <i>never</i> got the video card working properly on my last laptop.<p>So what I like about the Mac is OS X and all the handy *nix based tools that are still available to me, all packaged in a nice and slick package where stuff just works.