It's not clear when you last made a serious effort to try OS X, but you may want...

		idlewords on Oct 26, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The curious pricing of the 27" iMac It's not clear when you last made a serious effort to try OS X, but you may want to consider taking another look. A lot of the stuff you mention (emacs problems, inability to install packages, VLC crashing) doesn't reflect the current state of the OS.

Unless something changed in the last 5 minutes, that is not true.