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 wglb on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:24PM (#5270789)

The underlying reasons here make sense to moving away from Ubuntu, but I am curious about I live in a remote place. Getting stuff shipped here is very hard. The linux boxes that I order I get from Tiger Direct for like $300 or $400. They show up the next day for regular shipping, but that is because I am in the same state as their depot. Where are you that the shipment is very hard?

And throwing money at the solution became a viable and intelligent alternative for me is the way to go when the box is a tool and not a object of tinkering delight.

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Re:25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC by randomdrake on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:30PM (#5270825)

I live in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It's extremely inconsistent whether tech items can be shipped here. There are a couple reasons for that:

1) UPS considers it international shipping making the cost extraordinary.

2) Generally speaking, it's very common that I'm considered "outside the US" on various websites.

3) Lots of websites don't have USVI to select as a possible destination. Even entering a proper zip code doesn't yield helpful results.

In regards to the "object of tinkering delight," you've sort of illustrated one of my points in my post: it's not a delight anymore. I've got things to do and projects I want to work on. I don't get delight from digging into drivers or code or projects anymore.

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Re:25 Years to Mac - How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC by wglb on Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:55PM (#5270953)

Well that does make sense.

I very much concur. I do enjoy tinkering, but with what I do these days, I need the OS to not be such a giant obstacle.

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