ovoon: Tell me, how is using it on a Mac different than using it [...] a PC? NONE. The only reason you say it's better for artists, is because artists are trendy. So are macs.
Well, personnaly, I often work with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash or InDesign simultaneously. And, well... it's such a pain in the ass on a Windows PC! But it works as a charm on my iMac.
Don't know about Linux, though.
Artists/graphic designers are (for the majority of them) strange people. They love working on a computer, but they hate coding and generally don't give a f**** about building their own computer. They just want to have a nice computer that works well instantly when pulled out of the box.
They really work "visually", I mean by that that the ergonomy and design of their workspace is important.
As all those elements are hardly found with Windows PCs, maybe you can understand why most of them use Macs.
That said, I'm not an Apple fanboy, and I really don't think that Mac OSX is perfect, it's just that it may be the best choice for what I'm doing with a computer.