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If the company will give me a mac, I install a bunch of GNU stuff and use it. Anything else I wipe and put Ubuntu on it (for workstation OS).
by lifeguard 13y ago
If the company will give me a mac, I install a bunch of GNU stuff and use it. Anything else I wipe and put Ubuntu on it (for workstation OS).
- hardwaresofton 13y agoah OK. I know a friend who recently switched jobs and was given the choice, and he's enjoying the mac. I think some part of me is still clinging to the Windows/Mac war farce. Something deep down still makes me think that everyone running a Macbook is a smug hipster upvoted for "wipe and put ubuntu on it"
- jgeorge 13y agoIf you find yourself in this position ever, do yourself a favor and try to avoid this immediate "jump to make it as close to Linux as possible". I know several people who've had this opinion (being hardcore Linux users) and of those, a few have moved over to OS X (one kicking and screaming, no less). The rush to "just make it look like Linux" is unneeded and probably counterproductive. OS X is a terrible Linux machine, but it's an outstanding BSD machine. Rather than try to force it into what you know, give yourself a short time to get comfortable with the Linmux->BSD shift and you'll find very little need to beat OS X into submission.
- lifeguard 13y agoUm no. It is a horribly out of date BSD machine. And I don't run X11r6 on it.