take away all the cool options computer dorks like me want to take advantage of

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Boy, yeah, that Unix underpinning really limits the tweaking you can do on the thing.
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On the other hand, you'll have to actually do more than point-and-click to figure out how to do that stuff. Which makes your argument sound like the argument Unix people have had against Windows. But that's another subject entirely.