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Buying a Macbook only to put Ubuntu on it seems like a bit of a waste. You get Unix out of the box, and the battery performance is stellar. The gesture suppor
by notduncansmith 12y ago
Buying a Macbook only to put Ubuntu on it seems like a bit of a waste. You get Unix out of the box, and the battery performance is stellar. The gesture support is awesome, but I don't know if the drivers available for Ubuntu will help you maximize that. There's also quite a lot of very good software available for OS X that's not available for Ubuntu (Alfred, Tower, F.lux, and Dash come to mind).
This isn't to say that Macs are the superior choice, but from what I can tell you'd be throwing away a lot of the above by switching to Ubuntu, and those are a big part of the value proposition of the Macbook. If you're going to shell out for the Macbook, just use OS X.
- benzesandbetter 12y agoIn my experience, some software installs are easier with apt, relative to brew. Also, there is some advantage to having an environment installed on my dev machine with the same package manager as in production. That said, if you don't mind the overhead, you can achieve a similar outcome running a virtual machine inside of OS X.
- notduncansmith 12y agoTrue on the package management point - I can see the advantage there. Still, I stand by my point that if you're going to buy a Mac, it makes the most sense to use it as a Mac. As great as the form factor is, it alone doesn't justify the price point for me.
- moystard 12y agoFlux is actually available on Linux: https://justgetflux.com/linux.html https://justgetflux.com/linux.html. Regarding Alfred and Dash, there are some Linux alternatives (Gnome Do, Synapse for the former, Zeal for the latter), but they are far from being as good.
- notduncansmith 12y agoThey support Linux now? Rad, I'll have to let some work buddies know. Last I checked they didn't, thanks for the heads-up.