@2matrix: "Overpriced? Yes, but I honestly believe this is short-term thinking. These devices provide more value in the long run."

@CasualSubversive: Thanks for the interest.

@the_Sleepwalker: Actually, I think Windows has really good alternatives to nearly all of them.

@Trai_Dep: Notifications of everything. It consolidates all of the blinking bubbles and popups into a single (relatively unobtrusive) location that can be easily ignored.

@djmashedman: Except Growl is better. It's more configurable and functional. For example, when Growl lets me know I have an email, I can click on the notification to open up the message. Ubuntu's notifications doesn't let me do that.

@tonylinde: I forgot to mention, the reason that I'm so disorganized is that LyX-Outline is an open source project. Thus, organizing and advertising distract from development time. For that reason, I tend not to do them.

@tonylinde: Hi Tony, I'm not nearly so organized. If you'd like, shoot me an email and I will add you to the (very informal) mailing list that I'm putting together. (The email information can be found on the website under About.)

@tonylinde: I'm not quite that far along (though I would really like to be). For a rough estimate, what if we said mid-July?

@soren121: Because TextMate has gotten really long in the tooth. NotePad++ is a much better text editor. And, as another poster mentioned, there's E.

@designgeek: I think the top poster is right. In most cases, it's not even a question of an intuitive GUI. Take Cyberduck, for example. There are several very nice FTP clients (that aren't FileZilla) for Windows. Cyberduck isn't more intuitive or powerful than any of them. But people tend to think it is better…

@grawss: True, but they could create a new viewer and then offer it via download. Maybe as part of their Windows Live Essentials?

@Sharp Aero: Absolutely. They should be releasing a new version of Windows Live Essentials (Photos, Writer, etc.) in the next few weeks. And though they haven't really created an equivalent to GarageBand, it's a pretty niche app.

@bluecardinal: I actually prefer GnomeDo to Quicksilver. It feels better integrated into the desktop.

@Paul40: Couldn't agree more. At the beginning of this year (after Leopard + Snow Leopard updates completely destroyed all of our in-house software by killing PyQt), I swore off the Mac platform forever. I installed Linux on all of our workstations and publicly declared that I would never buy another Apple product…

Vote: WordPress

@phoenix: Sensitive much?

@tuxus: (Thanks for the notice. The comment was written in a hurry and I forgot to proof.)

@Pickaxe: I hadn't ever noticed that before, but you're right. I wonder if it might have to do with the Lifehacker readership, which seems to be geared toward the web developer/photography/productivity/developer crowd where Macs seem to be the computer of choice?

@tobylane: Yes. I've been testing out the Live apps all day, and I haven't had a single broken doc yet. (And this is said by someone who's mostly a LaTeX user.)

@headclone: I don't follow. You also have to sign up with Google. And when it comes to scary, big brother like actions, Google seems to win there. After all, Microsoft doesn't claim copyright over my data. Or, send out Wi-Fi sniffers. (They're just greedy pigs.)