25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC

Re:25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC by edwintorok on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:22PM (#5270775)

Does everything that you need on a daily basis work properly on the Mac?

I mean it might seem to be like that at the beginning, only to find out later that some software just worked better on Linux.

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Re:25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC by randomdrake on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:35PM (#5270850)

Yes. I've been using this thing for a couple months now. I haven't had anything fail on me at all. The system has not crashed or frozen.

I can edit pictures for website development, I can use iTerm2 for programming in Vim and SSHing around to various boxes. I've been able to configure multiple local development environments including, but not limited to MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, nginx, Ruby, Django, and so on. Other various programs like my IRC client work splendidly and without issue.

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Re:25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC by __--__ on Sunday February 24, 2013 @01:42AM (#5273160)

I made the switch from Ubuntu to Mac myself about 4 years ago. There isn't a single piece of software I run that runs better on Linux, even some apps that were designed on and for linux (ZSH and Vim, for example).

The only thing that might make me switch back at this point is the direction OS X is heading in. I'm still on 10.6.8 and I refuse to upgrade until they make an OS that's faster and less buggy than the one I'm running. Lion and Mountain Lion don't fit that bill. Also, there's no backwards compatibility for Apps. More and more apps are becoming 10.7 only, which may force me to make a decision sooner than I'd like.

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