Sounds like your both unfamiliar with OSX (Or just to used to your favorite linux distro) and you been reading one too many macs are teh ghey jokes.
Sorry if I offended any of you MAC lovers. I spent a total of one hour (or less) with a friend's new IMAC, and was mainly interested in exploring its unix environment for running programs, scripts, that I've already developed. I've had a little more time to play with it since, and still prefer DSL's (DFM) data centric desktop approach and flexibility. Edit: X11 was needed to run bash scripts.
Note: They sent the imac with Tiger on it for some reason, and have since installed Leopard, with Spaces. I'm surprised it doesn't include layers, which I use all the time.
original here.