All OSs have problems. And if you add third party drivers, external services, peripherals, etc, exponentially more problems.
The reasons I use Mac (and lots of people too perhaps) is not because they don't have problems, but because:
1) It doesn't annoy me with 200 popups, update this, approve that, USB connected, etc.
2) It doesn't require me to run a performance hogging antivirus (I know the arguments: Macs can get a virus just as well as, etc. Until that _actually_ happens as often as it did in Windows circa 2000, instead of mere lame trojans that I have to work to install I won't bother. Do people run antiviruses on Linux?).
3) It doesn't come with horrible, horrible, horrible, OEM software.
4) It doesn't look like it was designed by a 17 year old Star Trek fan geek with no design sense (Metro is better of course).
5) It doesn't have 20 year old widgets that still haunt users today. If you ever run some apps with statically linked (I guess) Windows 98 looking "save file" dialogs and such, you know what I mean.
6) It has a UNIX underneath, and I'm a CS (and Linux user for work).
7) It can run professional, top of the line, multimedia apps (which I uses professionally and as a hobby) whereas Linux can't: Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Cubase, Waves, Komplete, et al.
8) 95% of the stuff "just works" without fiddling. Never happened to me on Windows or on Linux (starting from RedHat Linux 5 --circa 1998-- to Ubuntu 12.04).
The reasons I use Mac (and lots of people too perhaps) is not because they don't have problems, but because:
1) It doesn't annoy me with 200 popups, update this, approve that, USB connected, etc.
2) It doesn't require me to run a performance hogging antivirus (I know the arguments: Macs can get a virus just as well as, etc. Until that _actually_ happens as often as it did in Windows circa 2000, instead of mere lame trojans that I have to work to install I won't bother. Do people run antiviruses on Linux?).
3) It doesn't come with horrible, horrible, horrible, OEM software.
4) It doesn't look like it was designed by a 17 year old Star Trek fan geek with no design sense (Metro is better of course).
5) It doesn't have 20 year old widgets that still haunt users today. If you ever run some apps with statically linked (I guess) Windows 98 looking "save file" dialogs and such, you know what I mean.
6) It has a UNIX underneath, and I'm a CS (and Linux user for work).
7) It can run professional, top of the line, multimedia apps (which I uses professionally and as a hobby) whereas Linux can't: Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Cubase, Waves, Komplete, et al.
8) 95% of the stuff "just works" without fiddling. Never happened to me on Windows or on Linux (starting from RedHat Linux 5 --circa 1998-- to Ubuntu 12.04).