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Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to ... by bcl on Sunday June 14, 2009 @11:42AM (#657186)
I can't think of any common annoyances. I come from the Linux desktop world, so having a GUI that works right is great. It was hard to get used to the close in the top left and drag in the bottom right only at first but I don't even notice that anymore.

Under the hood it is Unix, includes Python and wxPython by default, Xcode is free and an awesome development environment so I can do as much and more than I can with a Linux box.

If you need to run Ubuntu, just do it in Parallels, otherwise your annoyance is going to be having to reboot into OSX.

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Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to ... by cpr on Sunday June 14, 2009 @12:20PM (#657222)
Ditto, but I can't recommend Fusion enough.

Tried Parallels, and had too many problems.

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Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to ... by JeremyChase on Sunday June 14, 2009 @12:53PM (#657256)
VirtualBox is very polished virtualization software released under GPL. I have run this on my MPB for a year with Debian, and XP as clients. It runs great.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

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Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to ... by mediaman on Sunday June 14, 2009 @02:21PM (#657374)
I recommend VirtualBox as well. I haven't used Fusion but have used Parallels, and VirtualBox has become my default VM. Being free and GPL doesn't hurt at all.
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Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to ... by ttam on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @11:21AM (#660314)
Like other have said before, both Fusion and VirtualBox are great. Fusion is awesome if you need to work in windows since it can use your bootcamp partition.

VirtualBox is a very good alternative and open source which is always a plus.

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