'The Mac vs. Windows wiki provides an in-depth comparison between two of the most popular consumer operating systems today: Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista (Home Premium and Ultimate).'

A Linux distro based on Ubuntu, but geared to be easy to set up multimedia out-of-the-box and just generally user-friendly.

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A lengthy piece criticising some common "recommendations" from MacFixIt and why they're either misleading or bad.

"The truth is that Windows is hampered by 25-year old design decisions. These decisions mean that it's clunky to use and absolutely horrible to write applications for. The applications that people do write are almost universally terrible. They're ugly, they're inconsistent, they're disorganized; there's no finesse, no care lavished on them. Microsoft—surely the company with the greatest interest in making Windows and Windows applications exude quality—is, in fact, one of the worst perpetrators."

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