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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Not really. This is an example of people going pretty overboard trying to convince people they still have options.
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There is are only two options, Mac and Linux (something like Ubuntu or Mint).
For me the Mac is not an option, IMHO. Apple throws backward compatibility overboard much more quickly than Microsoft does. They just drop features and/or support of some versions of OSX and then blatantly state that you'll just have to buy a new Mac to get the new OSX version. Their entire 'We are the only one worth using'-aura isn't for me.
BSD is not an option on the desktop, because if Linux is only missing drivers for some hardware, then BSD is missing drivers for most non-server hardware. You'll have to build a very specific desktop to run one of the BSD's; you'd spare yourself a lot of problems if you'd just run Linux.
Everything else, such as Haiku, ReactOS, RiscOS (for Amiga) and eComStation (the closed-source successor to OS/2) is just scribbling in the margins. I even wonder why people spend time on them.
It's Windows for the mainstream computer users, Mac for mainstream users that are happy enough with the hardware Apple offers and policies it follows, and Linux for the people who have the time to make everything exactly as they want it.