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> I was an Ubuntu user and tester (signed the c-o-c years ago) for years > tester That was likely the problem. People invest a lot of time in their OS, of cou
by trycatch 13y ago
> I was an Ubuntu user and tester (signed the c-o-c years ago) for years
> tester
That was likely the problem. People invest a lot of time in their OS, of course sooner or later they get burned out and fed up with all that, and then they move to OS X/Windows disappointed in Linux in general. You don't have to be a tester for Ubuntu (or other Linux distro), you can just use it with very little maintenance. Of course, you can select some more complex path with desktop Linux, but you absolutely don't have to do that.
- PeterWhittaker 13y agoThat's a good point - but truth be told, I'd stopped testing a few years ago. I really only threw that out to show "my commitment" :-> - for a couple of years I did quite a lot of it - but work and other bits of life required me to wind down, so in the last few years, I've been trying to be "just a dumb user". Being a dumb user - and a dumb power user - are easier under OSX, it's a lot easier to tweak than Unity, ironically - and needs less tweaking.
- ehsanu1 13y agoI'd call unity more tweakable in that you can get rid of it entirely and replace it with something else. When I was on Ubuntu, I used XMonad, configured to my liking, and no desktop environment. It was great, and better than my experience is today on OSX. If you know how to, practically any linux distro is much more tweakable than OSX is. Definitely needs a lot more tweaking though, I'll grant that. Also note that there are people who put linux on their mac book pros, which is something I'm thinking of doing myself.
- emn13 13y agoOSX is hardly tweakable at all in comparison - what tweakability are you referring to?