Writing from a Mac Lab

[RAV TUX]

So today I decided to come to my wife's University with her, she is taking a 3 hour exam so I thought I would come to the Mac Lab on campus.

The Mac Lab has 16 Macs all with very large screen monitors, quite impressive since the other rooms only have Windows. In the Business center building they have Solaris computers. I basically have the Mac Lab to myself. ;)

Which btw makes me think of a great promotional/research/educational focus of Canonical/Ubuntu is for them to donate the funds to help set up Ubuntu Labs in University campuses.

Just another one of my random ideas, which I suspect is already being done but not at this campus or I would be in the Ubuntu or even Linux Lab.

That would also be cool to have a Linux Lab with all different distros on them, but I have honestly grown tired of all the different distros and now focus on Xubuntu(Ubuntu).

So anyway back to the Mac Lab experience...

While I am quite familiar with Mac's I worked on them for 6 years at my former job but found them a bit utilitarian since I was primarily doing work on them, I am re-visiting the Macs, and given the choice of Mac, Windows or Solaris...I choose to use Mac.

If I had been given the choice to use Linux, any Linux I would have chosen Linux. Any Linux.

Re-visiting Mac's...I ask myself honestly is there anything that truly works for general use better then in Ubuntu or even in Windows. Honestly NO. (I emphasize the word general again!).

I severely miss my e17 Xubuntu OS!...I long for it!

[Depressed Man]

Depends by what you mean by general use. If it's browsing, email, chat, whatever all three of them can do it.

Windows does have vulnerabilities that need to be taken care of occasionally so it makes it slightly harder.

Mac does have the advantage of being on one single hardware (though take that advantage away by say...trying to install OSX86 on whatever X86 machine and it turns into a Linux attempt...however). So things are pretty sure to work once you buy the machine.

A Linux attempt is surely better then an OSX86 attempt. For example for my Sony laptop wireless and the ethernet port are supported. Unlike in OSX86 where Wifi barely works (no WPA or WEP) and my ethernet port requires some work to get working.

So yes Mac does have an advantage for general use if a person just wants to buy a computer and do the basics safely (the keyword being safely).

Of course they could also buy a computer preinstalled with Linux at the same time. So either would work.

[ericartman]

I have access to all three systems in my computer room, Vista dual boot on this machine an Xp behind me and a g4 laptop on a shelf next to me. Oh and a couple of test beds for Linux across the room. For time spent computing, my Gutsy machine gets the lion share of use, not even sure my Vista will boot anymore and lately I've only been using my Mac for my iPod and wandering around the house. If I can ever get my iPod to use Linux I could finally get down to one machine, boy would the wife be happy. Overall though yeah I like my mac, as so far it has been like Gutsy, it just plain works. All you can ask I guess.

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[fuscia]

rav, how many of those macs have installed xubuntu on, so far?

[FuturePilot]

If I had been given the choice to use Linux, any Linux I would have chosen Linux. Any Linux.


Of course you would RAV;)