I find it funny to watch battles on the comparative advantage of operating systems. Because for myself I singled out 3 simple criteria that determine the suitability of the operating system for my daily work. These criteria are:
The work of the family of applications Adobe Creative Suite. Today, the choice is small - Windows or Mac OS X.
A browser that supports modern web applications (for example, Google Documents). In Windows, there is such a browser. And you can put Firefox. On Mac OS X, you can also put Firefox, but, alas, there is no way to teach it to correctly display mixed (written in Cyrillic and Latin alternately) text in Lucida Grande font. Why is that? It's a long story. Take my word for it. And if you want to argue - first make sure, please, that there is solid ground under your feet. Unfortunately, this circumstance does not allow me to use Firefox on Mac OS X. We are waiting for Firefox 3.0.
Color management on simultaneously working two monitors with different profiles. In principle, both Windows and Mac OS X are capable of this. But I would like it to be possible to connect an external monitor via DVI to the laptop at any time, and it would automatically become the main one. Not sure if you can teach Windows tricks like this, but Mac OS X makes it easy. True, while sometimes confused in the profiles . You have to keep track of, and, if necessary, set the Default Display manually using the ColorSync Utility. The operating system of my dream, of course, should not have such a sin.
Not very high demands, in my opinion. But alas, a system that satisfies all three criteria at once does not exist. We have to be content with what we have.