Greetings from not-so-afar

[Leon Goldstein]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:

>On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 08:44:39 Lonni J Friedman wrote:
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>>On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> > 
>>Still here.  I'm dabbling with some more current releases, e.g. SuSE,
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>>>but still using 10+ year-old Libranet 3.
>>>I'm still hovering over making the switch to a Mac.  I'd like to hear
>>>about dual booting a Mac with Linux.
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>>Unless you've already used OSX often, and like it, I'd strongly
>>discourage that transition.  My new employer gives (forces?) a Macbook
>>on all new employees, so I found myself having to use OSX as a primary
>>OS for the first time ever.  Its been a rather painful transition.
>>I'd say my biggest gripes are the lack of sloppy-focus for the mouse
>>(focus follows mouse), and the obscene instability of the OS.  Without
>>exaggeration, I'm experiencing kernel panics at least once/week.  I've
>>informally polled my coworkers, and they experience the same
>>instability.  We're not doing anything crazy, just (mostly) normal
>>desktop usage scenarios (web browser, multi-tabbed terminals connected
>>to other systems).  I don't get how anyone tolerates this crap.  Its
>>horrible.  Beyond that, the performance is truly terrible compared to
>>Linux.  If I run a few 'brew' package builds, the interactivity takes
>>a nose dive.  The mouse literally stutters its way across the desktop
>>(and this is with the SSD disk and 8GB RAM).  At home, I've got an
>>assortment of macbooks from 2010 all the way up to the most recent
>>2013 retina model, all with Fedora on them, and they are rock solid,
>>stable & performant.  So its definitely the OS that is at fault for
>>the instability and performance problems.
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>>So if you like OSX then i guess go for it. But if you haven't used it
>>much, I'd recommend that you think long & hard before making the
>>transition.  I can't help much about dual boot.  All of my home Macs
>>are single OS (Fedora), and my work Mac is OSX only.
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>My experience was much the same.  I gave OSX over 3 months to win me, then 
>that MBP became the best Kubuntu box I've yet run.
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Hmm... I guess this is why guys with old Mac towers with dual G5's are 
hanging onto them.
My feeble G4 Power Book seems to run OS X just fine.  I guess OS X did 
not quite make the leap to Intel procs.

Thanks for the warnings.


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Leon A. Goldstein

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