Interesting hypothesis on why people are harder on Linux than Mac OS for being different, courtesy of my tech-illiterate (but pretty darn smart) mother.

Sometimes you know something, but due to the way that the brain compartmentalizes information, your brain still fails to connect the dots. For most people, the operating system IS the computer. People can tell when they aren't running Windows, but they don't think about it as running Windows on a computer. They think about it as just running a...