As far as eye candy goes; I think it is nice to be able to work efficiently and effectively without system crashes, hangups and slowdowns. Eye candy (bells and whistles) adds something to the character of an operating system, whether it is a windoze system or Linux driven. Macs, I think, have always had eye candy or better looking graphics, if I can say that instead and have always boasted better performance than the Micro$uck OS with an ease of use over Linux. (But isn't the Mac OS 10 software Linux based?) I don't wish to start a war of words over this topic, just throwing my hat into the arena. I personally like eye candy on my machine.  And it still gets the job done. 
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