Yeah, Unix and Linux are two different things under the hood, as far as how it's coded. I used both from about 2000 to 2008, and I had to switch back to a Mac after giving up on trying to do everything multimedia on a Linux box. Linux is meant to be used in server and programming environments. At best, the desktop environments have been graphic kludges designed to get basic office functions working, such as document editing, spreadsheet work, graphics creation and editing. Where it has SUCKED big time during my days with Linux is playing back video and movies. Never mind writing sheet music or laying down tracks! To get video working, you have to write/rewrite code to get the drivers working for the DVD drive or software to make video playback possible at all. This was true for Red Hat, BSD, SuSE, you name it. I tried just about everything out there. I had to run Linux for critical stuff, and another box with Windows for multimedia stuff ONLY. I hope that the geeks have come to realize that they HAVE to serve the desktop crowd if they are going to get ANYWHERE beyond the server room. I quit the Linux scene, as I was no longer interested in IT after the dot-bomb bust and needed a machine that would WORK STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX without having to rewrite a single word of code. Back to the Mac I went, and I haven't looked back since. Every once in a while, I would go into the CLI to cat a file that TextEdit won't display.
