Why I like my Ubuntu box more than my iMac
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| So look, here’s the bottom line: Macs aren’t BAD per se. But Ubuntu,
| especially since the release of Feisty Fawn, is really just as good an option
| for the vast majority of the population. The only reason you should need to
| use Photoshop is if you’re in print media or a professional photographer.
| Every web designer can use The Gimp to just as much effectiveness.
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| If you’re using Windows or Linux and you’re thinking about springing for that
| new iMac, don’t. It’s really not any better. Essentially it all comes down to
| personal taste and personal opinion . . . and a good dose of highly effective
| marketing strategy.
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http://openswitch.org/journal/why-i-like-my-ubuntu-box-more-than-my-imac
Recent:
2008 is the year of Linux on the desktop
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| …At least in the Pilgrim family.
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| Over Christmas break, we did a three-way computer upgrade: my sons got my
| parents’ old Mac, my parents got my old desktop, and I got a new desktop. Of
| course I’m still running Debian Sid (I just moved my old hard drive to the
| new computer), but the big news is that my parents asked me to migrate them
| to Linux. They are now happy users of Ubuntu 7.10 with Firefox, Thunderbird,
| Picasa, OpenOffice.org, Amarok, and gnome-games.
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http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/01/04/my-parents-desktop#comment-11104
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| Early this month, Mark Pilgrim made waves when he went shopping for a
| new Mac, but decided not to buy one, and, in When the bough breaks, wrote
| at length about switching to Ubuntu. I've been thinking about this a
| lot recently, and now John Gruber's written And Oranges, a fine excursus
| on Mark?s piece. I'm pondering the switch away myself, too, and maybe
| sharing my thoughts will be helpful. [Update: Lots of feedback on the
| state of the Ubuntu art.] [Update: More from Mark. I feel sick,
| physically nauseated, that Apple has hidden my email--the record of
| my life--away in a proprietary undocumented format. I've had this happen
| once before (the culprit was Eudora); fool me twice, shame on me. Hear
| a funny sound? That's a camel's back, breaking.]
|
| [...]
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| Will I Switch? · Yes. For Mark?s reasons, and because I'm pretty darn
| sure that either Ubuntu or some other distro will eventually get the
| key things right.
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| Alternatively, Apple could open-source a few of their apps so we could
| all fix the pain points, and they could start having an actual
| conversation with the world. Nothing less is acceptable.
|
| As John Gruber points out, neither Mark nor I are exactly typical.
| But you know what? I think that if the GNU/Linux/Solaris community
| can sustain its current level of energy and progress, and if Apple
| maintains its dysfunctional communications culture, there are going to
| be better choices just not for me, but for a lot of other people too.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/06/15/Switch-From-Mac
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