[aeberbach]

Yes, it is that much more difficult for people whose primary goal is doing stuff other than tweaking their computer. And as others have mentioned, nothing gets you more battery life than OS X on Apple hardware.

Not sure how any of the various Linux package managers are more "standard" than brew on OS X...

[reedlaw]

"Doing stuff" for developers often includes installing and running packages such as databases, programming languages, editors, etc. On OS X, there is only an App Store built-in. You have to choose one of many package managers[1]. Each package may get installed in its own non-standard way. Linux distributions like Debian or Arch have standardized package managers which handle dependencies and updates much more smoothly than any OS X implementation I've come across.

1. http://www.onthelambda.com/2013/10/14/the-state-of-package-m...

[renaudg]

You don't have to choose, nowadays you just use Homebrew for anything that might not be built-in.

[matobago]

Take a look of this http://brew.sh/

[danford]

>Yes, it is that much more difficult for people whose primary goal is doing stuff other than tweaking their computer.

Come on now, it's not 2005. Ubuntu runs smoothly on just about everything I've installed it on and I usually end up having to do more tweaking on Windows 8 than Ubuntu. As far as OS X goes, it's not perfect out of the box either, especially for anyone coming from a different environment who needs to tweak it to meet their standards.