Comments on: Why I’ve Switched from Ubuntu to Mac

By: Tom Pierce

Tom Pierce — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:43:57 +0000

Thanks for making me sound like a drug dealer, Jeff.

Welcome to the club. I know where you can get this swell tattoo…

By: Arlen Cuss

Arlen Cuss — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:06:49 +0000

“It pains me to say it, but I’ve left Ubuntu as my primary OS and switched to Mac. I used Ubuntu as my primary operating system on my Dell laptop for over two years. I loved it. I felt very productive in the OS, especially relative to Windows.”

I mirror your experience – I was an Ubuntu user (using for development) on a Dell for a few years, and before that it was simply Ubuntu on my desktop. Week or two ago, I bought a Mac since I saw how well my colleagues were getting on with them. Now I’m a Mac user (for development!), and it’s great.

The article Neurotic Nomad has got there is completely right though. People really DO take personal offense to your purchase.

By: jpotts

jpotts — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:30:01 +0000

Bryan,

The only thing I miss so far is not having the emacs key bindings in the bash shell. I’m sure I can get those back…I just haven’t taken the time to look it up.

I think I liked the keyboard on the Dell better, but I’ll adjust.

Jeff

By: 7777

7777 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:32:56 +0000

“just means you like being able to just get things done without the OS constantly getting in your face.”
hmm, I haven’t used os x enough to know if (discover & refine how) it can “get thing done”, but why would you have trouble using windows? I’ve used it since 3.11, so i suppose I’ve accumulated ways to use it quickly. In the mid-late 90′s, I used os 6, 7 and they seemed about as good as w95, 98 at that time. different, but overall similar.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:01:39 +0000

My household is a mix of Windows, Mac, and Linux too. While work is a non-Mac world with Windows, Linux (RHEL), and Unix. The Macbook Pro at my house was recommended by me for my wife, a professional photographer.

While the Mac has proven more reliable than Windows XP/Vista and friendlier than Linux…it isn’t perfect. And that’s why I find the Mac so frustrating. At twice the price of a Windows or Linux machine…I had hoped for more.

After a few days with your Mac, is there anything about Ubuntu or Linux that you’re missing or craving for?

By: Andrew Fishkin

Andrew Fishkin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:41:14 +0000

Macs are just a pleasure to use, without needing to tinker. Of course, you can tinker as much as you want, so before long you will likely be hooked.

By: Deepak Mittal

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:25:11 +0000

I am myself a hard-core Ubuntu fan as well as your blog fan (No comments about book so far because I got it last Friday, haven’t started reading it).

Feels bad to see a ubuntu user getting converted. My biggest issues with Ubuntu are wireless instability and problems with projector. But, I have learned to live with these problems; primarily because of production like dev environment and apt-get.

I am very curious to know your experience with Mac. I hope you post your experience with Mac in coming few weeks/months.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:58:41 +0000

I have a Vista / OS X dual boot. An XP desktop, an XP / OS X dual boot, and 3 Macbooks with OS X only.

My last linux machine went to the recycle depot a couple of months back. My XP and Vista get booted up about once a month.

The Macs have become the machines that are always on – and with good reason.

By: Viswakarma

Viswakarma — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:24:30 +0000

Don’t forget that Mac OS X is BSD Unix and you can recompile your unix/linux applications to run under Mac OS X –
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/PortingUnix/compiling/chapter_4_section_3.html

By: wilson

wilson — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:33:48 +0000

I’m a 16+ years mac user at home and windows/unix developer at work. Java development on linux isn’t fun that’s why we have to use windows on our company…until os x. Now we are doing development and design on a single os and have our servers loaded with centos (stable, solid os). For me linux = development + server, linux != other purposes unless you have time to research and try to fix everytime things get funny.