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

By: Luca

Luca — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:53:09 +0000

Yes ubuntu is nice but i think mac is nicer!

By: Carlos Gonzalez

Carlos Gonzalez — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:57:12 +0000

I google “Moving from mac to Ubuntu” and I came to this blog, I feel the same, and I am getting tired of Mac, I am a Mac User for almost 20 years and Apple is really pushing me away, they are control freaks, that makes things less compatible just to make more and more profit, there’s tons of stuff in Mac that I am getting more and more frustrated, I have tried Ubuntu and is great and it’s free, open, and fast!

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:10:02 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Allain! I love Inkscape

By: allain

allain — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:02:06 +0000

I prefer Ubuntu too. I had an iBook G4, and was very happy with it until the hardware broke to soon. I freelance, so for me it was the price that did it: Cheaper hardware, free OS, and decent free programs. I’ll stick to Ubuntu, now that I’ve taken the time to learn it.

BTW
If you haven’t tried it, I recommend Inkscape for graphic design. Fun to use and smoother shapes.

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!