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Anyway, one thing with Ubuntu I got thinking about today is that they will pull things off nicely if their userbase keeps getting larger and larger. Unlike a commercial enterprise like Apple where things are already perfectly implemented and Just Works™, Ubuntu with their Canonical needs a much larger marketshare to show hardware vendors that they are ready for prime time. Smaller unknown companies like System76.com provides this demand for a full hardware + open source OS bundle, and there are more small companies that does the same too. Linspire is doing a good job as well, and I read today about Dell thinking seriously about pre-installing Linux on future systems. It’s great news, even though Dell has fallen to second place now among computer makers

Source:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/ideastorm/ideasinaction?c=us&l=en&s=gen

PS. I adore my Macbook, even though it needs quadruple the RAM purchased.

I just can’t get into the whole Ubuntu thing, I remember when I first got into linux, an old friend recommended Red Hat as a starter distro – but I found Debian to be much easier to install and Potato was my first distro – didn’t get far into the RH install and chucked it quickly. I have a bootable potato on a mini cd just to remind me how geeky I can be.

Vim’s the only text editor I use on Linux – wouldn’t dream of using anything else – I cry at the site of emacs lol.

I’ll pull out the X11 when I get a chance this week and let you know how it goes. I may just run potato on parallels with X11 too – that should be a neat experience. (Did I mention that I love my imac?)

I myself at least prefer to have obvious multimedia features ready and done after the distro installation is complete. In these days you are not supposed to have to set those features up yourself, right? It should just work, as it does with iTunes and.. well.. Windows Media Player

Apple TV: livingroom set-top box. Multimedia and prepared for television sets, sort of.
Mac Mini: a full-fledged computer that also has got some pretty decent livingroom features as a bonus.

The best thing to do is to talk to the nearest Apple retail store and ask them for a demonstration and make sure to know the exact difference in experiences and features between the two machines. I think most people will say the same thing as me if you ask around which one to spend money on. Another option is to save money for both

Regarding Linux ..

Ubuntu is an immature operating system for daily use – needs lots of tweaking because of the “will never include full functionality from first install”. It won’t handle mp3 and AAC support is hard to configure.

I can highly recommend PC Linux OS for an out-of-the-box experience. Ever heard of that one? The website is simply pclinuxos.com so it’s easy to find and a click away from a download. And yes, it is based on Debian behind the scenes, as far as I can remember.

For editing, I use GUI tools nowadays. But still, in an ssh session my favourite choices are vim and nano, the latter being great for jotting down memos and todos. VIM feels nicer for configuration files.

X11 for Mac is great. If not else to see Linux apps pop up on your Mac desk. Guaranteed to make you say “wow!”, and NOT in the Vista kind of way (thankfully) ..