A good quote from Cowboy Bebop struck me today as representative of using Mac OS X vs. Windows. Linux I’m going to leave out of this. It was, approximately, “Are you going to use the technology, or let it use you?”
If you spend time wiping viruses and spyware off of your computer, fixing DLL conflicts, wiping your hard drive and reinstalling to fix mysterious problems, or other such activities, consider that quote, and consider switching operating systems.