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10.10 works fine on the MacBooks. But I didn't bother keeping OSX.
by bkudria 16y ago
10.10 works fine on the MacBooks. But I didn't bother keeping OSX.
- igravious 16y agoI've got a Macbook5,2 which is documented here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook5-2 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook5-2 I am presuming other models have similar treatment. I salute you on your ditching OSX, but do you not miss it at all? My biggest gripe is the lack of something like apt-get / synaptic for OSX, if Jobs really was super-smart he'd bake something like that in real quick and no, I do not mean the App Store though that could have been a chance to get a whole repository thing going for OSX. Say I read about Haskell on HN and I think, I'd like to play with that - on OSX I have to fire up a browser and find out what is the best way to install it, on Ubuntu it's just apt-cache search haskell and apt-get whatever seems to be the compiler. Sigh I'd miss the eye candy though. And I'm presuming that suspend/resume works. And battery life is good. And. And!
- wmf 16y agoYou're kind of derailing the thread here, but between Fink, MacPorts, Homebrew, etc. you have an embarrassment of riches in the package manager department.
- bkudria 16y agoYeah, I wish those compared to Apt.
- rmc 16y agoFink, MacPorts, Homebrew, etc. That's part of the problem IME. I want to install something, OK, I have to check Fink, it's not there, let's check macports, ah it's there. But it depends on something else, so it needs to download that. I have that installed with fink, but it needs its own version in it's own place (/usr/local, vs. /opt IIRC). It's not as easy and seamless as having one place you can get all your software. Apt also has a much larger number of software available than fink and macports.
- bkudria 16y agoI don't miss the eye-candy. Suspend/resume works fine. Battery life is fine.