I'm sure to anger a few apple purists with my opinion, but honestly apple is infuriating to me. Not because their stuff does not work, of course it does the job and it does it well, but because they are designed to painfully expire leaving you with something that no adapter could ever put back into rotation.

On the one hand I have to admit that Steve Jobs was a visionary, he understood how to get people to buy into his idea. If his motivations were good or bad, that's a discussion that we could have with not clear answer in sight. However, the way the company has been operating ever since I got my first apple product has been shifting, and the direction keeps on pushing people like me away.

Dumb it down

That's the way I see it honestly, make sure nothing about how anything works is revealed, so that if there is any issues you can't figure it out at all. In the idea of making this very simple, they also end up hiding things from the users that in my opinion are counterproductive.

A clear example, a CD is stuck in your old mac, it won't boot, you want to eject the cd but there is no eject button on the CD-R. How do you do this? Can you do this? - You dig in some forums, find some people who have enough gray hairs due to years of dealing with Apple and it's "simplicity", and they will tell you.

"just hold down the mouse button after you heard the chime"

OF COURSE!!! Why didn't I think of that? that's exactly how intuition works. It's like that one time I was trying to replace a flat tire and I forgot to shut down the radio of my car. I had to put it on NPR first (of course), then shut it down and wait for the chime sound before removing the last lug.

OS won't load, computer is too old

That is also major BS, because the reason for this has nothing to do with the hardware itself. I know enough about computers and code to say that this is 100% by design. Meaning there is an option on the installers that detects if the computer is "too old" based on what they find appropriate and blocks the installation. It's not about the RAM, processing power or anything of the sort I can assure you that.

Im a day away from going full Linux on it

Give me some recommendations. What should I slap on this puppy? If I can't make this take Snow Leopard or Lion in the next few hours I will give up on Mac Os completely and possibly go with a Debian Distro or something.