1) I find managing window sizes a real pain. Why doesn’t the maximize button just fill the screen? I spend way too time going to that lower-right-hand corner to drag out windows. (I think apps like Write Room and Scrivener are showing us how wonderful full-screen interfaces can be.)

This is it for me. I can't believe I can't maximize windows. Clicking the green button in iTunes actually turns it into a mini player! This blew my mind when I switched, especially with all the talk of usability and standardized UI support. Windows and Linux both are doing this right, while macs are broken. I have a widescreen format laptop screen and I can't easily make Safari take the whole screen? Is this a joke?

No matter, osx was quickly relegated to a little 12GB partition, and gentoo is now running happily, with everything good except I only have one mouse button for some silly reason.

Mac does alot right, but those things they don't, no one ever talks about, and new users are likely to be surprised by them. It seems that there are serious fundamental flaws in osx that have never been dealt with, and they are not complex issues from what I can see, they are annoyances that should have been destroyed years ago.