- #Ubuntu vs mac os install#
- #Ubuntu vs mac os drivers#
- #Ubuntu vs mac os software#
- #Ubuntu vs mac os code#
But it is getting better by leaps and bounds.
Yeah, it is not perfect, and where it fails it might do so horribly.
My previous laptop felt like a beggar lived inside, always asking for money!Īnd on, and on, and on.
#Ubuntu vs mac os software#
* free automatic updates to the latest version of all the software you use, twice a year. * centralized software repository with immediate access to thousands of (free) apps.
* no dealing with malware and progressive system rot. * media players without the restrictions imposed by iTunes or WMP. Easy to learn? Possibly, but so is Linux nowadays (yeah, it can get creepy at times, but then most would agree that XP is often a real bitch).Īs for “more productive”, these should also count: Mac is as unfamiliar for the vast majority of people as Linux is. Your argument does not really hold as long as you say “windows/mac”. The real fact is, that linux has been fine for the average user (read: web/email) for years, but whether they would be as familiar with it as with windows/mac is a completely different story, and depends on many other factors.Īnyone can use linux nowadays, but they may not be as productive with it as with windows/mac. It seems that the more features linux gets and the easier it is to use, the longer the list of things that the “average” user STILL needs before linux is a possibility for them. You may have noticed over the years just how much more mom & pop do with their computers now compared to a few years ago. Ok, and since when do Mom and Pops mess around with dual monitor setups? 🙂 Getting two monitors to work properly at the right resolution can be a real pain and something that regularly crops up on an area that still needs some attention. Linux has come a long way, but it’s not totally ready for the mom and pop folks, in my opinion. The only difference is, OSX hits your wallet hard and often, and Ubuntu never does. So once again … compare the two OSes in the same circumstances (ie both pre-installed and set up before the consumer gets them), and they perform similarly. This however isn’t a problem at all for a pre-installed Linux correctly set up by the OEM or the IT store.
#Ubuntu vs mac os install#
The only problem with Linux, Xorg and Xrandr is that it is not necessarily correct after auto-detection following an install from a LiveCD.
#Ubuntu vs mac os drivers#
If you have Ubuntu pre-installed, so that the video drivers and nf are all pre-set correctly for you before you purchase the machine, then plugging in a second desktop monitor into such an Ubuntu machine is exactly the same experience … it will just work. plugging a desktop monitor into a MacBook is a very common thing to do (and being marketed by Apple, they certainly don’t expect you to get a technician to set this up…). That’s not really true… Setting up a second monitor is hardly a hassle these days (or rather shouldn’t be), and isn’t comparable to upgrading the hard disk or similar.Į.g. The Linux system in that scenario is easily as suitable and as easy for mom and pop to use as either of the others. Compare apples with apples … compare a Linux system pre-installed with OSX pre-installed or Vista pre-installed. It is NOT valid to reach a conclusion that Linux isn’t ready for “mom and pop” becuase it is hard for them to set up a dual monitor system … it would be hard for them to do that for any OS, and for any dual-monitor solution that “mom and pop” would need to buy they would only consider one where it was already set up for them in advance.
If “mom and pop” want a dual monitor system, they buy from the IT store such a system already set up for them. The point would be not so much that “mom and pop” don’t use dual monitors, but rather the point is that “mom and pop” wouldn’t expect to set up an OS to deal with a dual monitor system.
#Ubuntu vs mac os code#
Right, so if “mom and pop” don’t use it, then it’s not really a problem which needs fixing… Right now, “mom and pop” for the most part don’t use Linux, so lets just freeze the code and not progress further.
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