Comments on: Switching from Linux to Mac OS X

By: Loveemochicks1

Loveemochicks1 — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:33:25 +0000

yes ive been using windows for 10 years (since windows me) and i have to admit its pretty unstable. I’ve always been drooling over the macs but i find them too overpriced. So i decided to build myself a hackintosh on my dell inspiron 1525. WOW! I have drivers for everything, so i have ethernet, wifi, internal webcam, usb, firewire, sound, internal mic and sd card reader working on a fake mac. I can run my photoshop, my xcode, ilife and the rest. Then one day i discovered linux. Now my pc dual boots ubuntu and osx leopard 10.5.7 fine and there is no trace of bill gates on my pc ^_^

P.S jailbreak your iOS device for administration, terminal access, file transfer, themes, and free apps :-p

By: Gnorb

Gnorb — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:46:30 +0000

Still using it. In fact, writing this from that very Mac. Purchasing this machine was one of the single best decisions I ever made when it came to computing. The only thing I regret is not having done it sooner.

Since then, I’ve recommended a MacBook to just about anyone looking for a new laptop who isn’t happy with their current experience, whatever it may be.

That said, I won’t touch the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). Way too restrictive. OS X offers the perfect balance between a GUI that just lets you work and be productive out of the box, and a powerful machine you can dig into (if you’re into the command line thing). Would I go back? If I had to, I could, although I’d miss some of the tools I have available to me, like Handbrake, Mars Edit, OmmWriter, iPhoto, and–most importantly–Scrivener. Sure, there are equivalents for these in the Windows and Linux worlds, but one thing that can’t be denied with Apple is that they’ve created a culture of polished products, and that’s what you’ll very often get.

My recommendation: If you want a Mac, get one. You very probably won’t regret it.

(Edit: I didn’t answer the question “What do I miss?” Mostly, the FOSS culture, which I rather enjoyed. From a user POV, I miss a lot of the customizability, something unmatched in OS X or Microsoft. The polish of the Mac, however, makes up for it.)

By: kadrach

kadrach — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:47:55 +0000

Now that more than two years have passed, are you still using a mac? Do you regret buying one? I’m pretty much in the position you were two years ago

What do you miss?

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:14:06 +0000

[...] phones, my mind was pretty much made up: I wanted an iPhone. I’d used it before and loved it. I own a Mac (which I adore), have an iPod, and have been slowly brainwashing my family into the Cupertino Cult [...]

By: Gnorb

Gnorb — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:01:36 +0000

Not really. Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD. Pretty much anything you can do with Linux (administratively) you can do with OS X.

By: Man from3004

Man from3004 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:08:19 +0000

I have never used a mac, but I use Ubuntu (and Opera too ) and I have heard that there are more things you can do in Ubuntu (and Linux in general) when it comes to system administration and Terminal stuff. Is this true?

By: One Shot Design :: To Mac or not to Mac?

One Shot Design :: To Mac or not to Mac? — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:21 +0000

[...] To Mac or not to Mac, that is the question. Norbert Cartagena is as much mitigated as I am when switching from GNU/Linux to Mac. Eric Fleming wrote a long [...]

By: Gnorb

Gnorb — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:14:58 +0000

MITM: I suggest you take a reading comprehension class.

By: Microsoft is the MotherShip

Microsoft is the MotherShip — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:59:33 +0000

Nice sentence.

“But I what I expect to happen and what will happen may end up being two totally different things.”

That sentence really made a lot of sense. Not!

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By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:38:36 +0000

(Well, I will admit to the guilty pleasure that is the Opera browser.

You could be proud of using Opera even though we’re not open source.

Daniel
Opera Software