Re:Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?
by sandGorgon on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @01:17AM
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Go with Dell XPS or Precision laptops - they are usually fully supported by Dell and are quite good hardware (USB 3.0, 16GB max RAM)
Dell has incredible compatibility with Linux - somehow a lot of Dell specific utilities have ended up in Ubuntu (e.g. firmware-addon-dell for BIOS handling, dell-recovery for creating Dells specific recover ISO, etc.)
Dell's support pages have a lot of info on advanced processes (bios flashing, etc.) from Linux - http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml
Re:Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?
by _delirium on Monday April 26, 2010 @11:53PM
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> I am just waiting for someone to make some nice hardware thats fully supported with ubuntu.
Is there anything in particular on the MacBooks themselves that Ubuntu doesn't support yet? The main thing I can think of is that Linux with a one-button mouse can be awkward.
Re:Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?
by Magneus on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @02:32PM
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Linux has support for this. You can either bind a key or set up a "long press" to be right click.
Re:Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?
by patrickk on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @06:48AM
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You can get rid of the dock when you have the cursor away from it. Check your preferences to change this. I also aligned the dock to the left-hand side to make it less obtrusive.
Re:Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?
by jff on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @11:09AM
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"Let me just grab the edge of this window OH HELLO THERE MISTER DOCK! Glad you decided to pop up right where I was clicking, now we can enjoy the wait while OpenOffice loads!"
Re:Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?
by Magneus on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @02:31PM
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This can also be set by hitting, uh "option command D," I believe.
Re:Ask HN: Could you please help me appreciate OS X more?
by nearestneighbor on Monday April 26, 2010 @11:11PM
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Alt-F4?
that being said I work on osx and ubuntu most days and much prefer ubuntu, the osx window manager is pretty funky and underpowered compared to gnomes and theres a lot of annoyances to get around, the dock thats impossible to get rid of, having to change keyboard layouts etc etc.
I have been using the mac close to a year now and still seem to be in a fairly similiar situation of not being comfortable with it, I am just waiting for someone to make some nice hardware thats fully supported with ubuntu.