Comments on: Moving from Mac to Ubuntu: Why I’m switching

By: Bassu Khan

Bassu Khan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:14:56 +0000

Oh, and one thing more Mac sucks in, the 3D desktop and “real” workspaces, you can have in Ubuntu.
I’m a Linux freak and when a friend of mine recently insisted that I should have a Mac, I studied it a bit more but rightfully speaking of that I found I’m afraid of loosing my freedom and the ultimate power of command line.

By: Floyd Johnson

Floyd Johnson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:43:37 +0000

The funny thing is that I found this post by asking Google for “I’m a Mac I’m a Megan” (sans quotes).

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:05:27 +0000

I use Ubuntu, Xp, and Mac and of the three find the finder in Mac to be way ahead of anything on offer from Linux oe MS, I work in a creative profession and have to keep track of tens of thoudands of files, graphics, Audio, text and web. The Finder feature in Mac OSX is the most powerful I have ever used and the reason I will not be without a mac in my studio.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:13:04 +0000

Saw the comment (way) above on Synergy. I just wanted to chime in that it ROCKS!!! I’m working on three machines simultaneously: ubuntu box, xp, and macos. I control all three thru my keyboard attached to the xp box in the middle. They even share the clipboard (text only). I’m even extra paranoid and run all synergy connections thru SSH. What’s extra fun is running Virtualbox on the mac (since it has the most powerful cpu of the three) and run extra ubuntu and windows sessions therein.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:48:17 +0000

I’m so surprised. I thought nobody would say anything favorable about Linux usability over OS X in the context of usability.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:33:18 +0000

The “Finder” is broken? No problem. I never use it anyways. Not the ones on Windows, Mac or Linux. All you ever need is the grep command! Come to think of it, you don’t really need Dreamweaver. If your hosting allows SSH, you can easily edit your files using that on the spot! You can also install vim if you want. Ubuntu comes with vim-lite, which sucks. Why vim? Because vim > all!

sudo apt-get install vim

If you need Dw for multiple file edits, you can do the same with the sed command.

And use Virtual Box for Mac and or Windows. =)

Have fun!

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:50:38 +0000

I’m considering a long term move to Ubuntu. I have a desktop running 8.10 now and a laptop with Leopard. I’d love to move to Ubuntu full time, but there are a few things keeping me tied to the Mac:

1. iTunes. I have a small ‘investment’ in iTunes video and have two iPhones. I can ditch the video, but the iTunes sync to the iPhone is essential. Perhaps VirtualBox dual boot with XP is an option.

2. Video Editing. This is annoying. On the mac its simple. On linux its impossible. I don’t do great things with Video, but would like to make a quick edit of my daughters.

3. Small things. Things like foxmarks (which I can’t get working), evernote, etc. don’t work or come late (if at all) to linux. I know the community pushes out apps quickly, but there’s always that one app that I would love to run.

Thoughts?

By: Braden (meoblast001)

Braden (meoblast001) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:02:09 +0000

Actually, you can get Dreamweaver 8, Flash 8, and Fireworks 8, as well Adobe Photoshop 7 (maybe even newer versions of those programs) to work in Ubuntu as long as you have the Windows EXE version and the package “wine” installed on Ubuntu

By: Torbjørn Lunde

Torbjørn Lunde — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:30:31 +0000

If you are looking for a Photoshop alternative I think you should take a look at Pixel: http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12. It is a cross-plattform application. If you care about politics, it’s not a FOSS-app, but I would still consider it since it’s interface is lightyears ahead of GIMP. It’s not the best, but anyone who’ve used Photoshop should able to get used to it fairly quickly. It’s still in beta, so it might not be reliable enough yet, but I would give it a go.

I see someone mentioned Quicksilver. There is something called Gnome Do which does pretty much the same thing. (Not as mature and feature rich as QS though.) Have a look at it here: http://do.davebsd.com/

There times I’ve used Linux I’ve really liked Gedit(often reffered to as simply Text Editor) for editing HTML. I find it to be way better than any of the so called Dreamweaver alternatives such as NVU.
Here some articles for getting the most out of it:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/gedit_powerful_underrated_text_editor_everybody
http://www.micahcarrick.com/09-29-2007/gedit-html-editor.html

As for fanboys: Fanboys – regardless of what brand/product/band/soccer-team/whatever – are annoying indeed.

I tried Linux but I had a bit too much trouble with instability, and also severe limitaions when trying to do espescially print, but also photo related stuff. However, it never stopped me from doing webdesign so I think you made a good choice… and it’s alot about preference anyway I guess.

There is a blog you might be interested in. It’s called “Linux for designers”, you could probably find some useful info there. http://my.opera.com/area42/blog/

I hope my comments where helpful.

By: Megan

Megan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:39:23 +0000

Seriously, have you ever used a File manager with tree-structure view – like Windows Explorer, or Gnome’s Nautilus ?

I was wondering that too – if they even knew what I was talking about. Yes, Finder has 4 view options (3 in Tiger), 2 of which are really annoying IMO. Nautilus has 2 and those are enough for me most of the time.