Adium has one, but it seems to do nothing, and it’s ugly as heck. I have to say that I prefer the normal Linux/Windows paradigm of having a little icon in the status bar instead. The popping and blinking icons in the dock annoy me.But this still is a drawback, it means that are not as integrated as other apps, and have a distinctly unmacky feel to them compared to other software, even multiplatform ones as Firefox and OpenOffice.
COMPARE OS X TO LINUX SOFTWARE
The same goes for GIMP, which is the main graphical software I use.
COMPARE OS X TO LINUX MAC
The default Mac keyboards have graphical signs like a sign only useful if you happen to be eating an apple and somehow want to display this graphically. And Alt+normal keys have for me more useful defaults, ie extended latin characters like ð and Ł.
COMPARE OS X TO LINUX INSTALL
Sure, there is macports, but in Ubuntu it’s integrated into the OS, and you update the operating system the same way as you update and install everything else, and you have loads of nifty, free software just a couple of clicks away in the Synaptic UI. That means it operates more closly to the typical servers we encounter, and you install software like Apache etc in a similar way. I’ll first start with the things I’ve found so far that are benefits for each system. So, don ye yon asbestos suits, and let the flamewar begin! This also means that you have one week to convince me either way. OS X seems to get a bit more developer friendly as time goes on too.Īnd after a week of trying to set up OS X so that it is useable I’ve now arrived at a place where I can use it properly, and I will try it out as my main OS for a week, and then make my decision. I already think Ubuntu is just as good as Windows for a typical user, and of course superiour for a developer like me. Ubuntu gets easier to use and have more and more “end user” features.
That is a big step for Linux and open source: Having an operating system that can compare favorably to the commercial ones.
Ubuntu is an operating system I can put my wife on and she will not be any more lost then she is on Windows. Five years ago, they probably would have been, but then Ubuntu arrived. But I’m a open source computer programmer, and for us things are definitely not as clear cut. There is no doubt that for the casual computer users viewpoint OS X kicks Linux’s ass. As you may have seen from my recent posts I’m trying out OS X.
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