At the moment, in my uni department's forum, there another age-old "Windows vs Linux on the desktop" argument going on, and as ever it just pisses me off the way some people will adamantly use the "Linux is just incredibly hard to use and getting anything working on" point of view, when the Sun Java Desktop, Lindows and Xandros Linux have all made Linux just as easy as to install, use and run programs on as any copy of Win XP, off the shelf.
So what's the big deal? Frankly it's all just bigotry, and yes the same bigotry exists in the form of elitism on the Linux advocacy side of things, but at least it's from a technical-superiority stand point, and not a childish "I've always used Windows, the first time I tried xyz it didn't work, thus all other operating systems suck".
Apple's Mac OS <10 pretty much sucked, and so did their old hardware for a good deal of time (I'm talking the few years before Jobs came back on the scene, when their hardware and software were just getting old and crufty), but OS X and my PowerBook G4 goth give to one of the best user-PC-experiences (as well as hacker/developer) I've had to date, and this is with many years experience as user, developer, admin and hacker under my belt (maybe not the decades that some people can claim, but enough to say I can make state this opinion without any weight on my mind).
It's all relative.
"XYZ may not have been the easiest thing to use, but you chose an advanced version of that OS to try, or an alpha/beta version, and are judging everything else against? Get a clue."