From: Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T02:12:23+09:00
Subject: [OT] Trying to change my OS from Windows to Linux/Mac

Hello, Ruby people!

This is not about Ruby itself but about OS.
The reason that I ask this question in this group is that I've been
motivated to use other OS's than Windows by this group while I learned
Ruby.
Thus the people in this group can answer my question very well.
Also, I feel very comfortable with people in this group, even if I
don't know them personally.
(I feel like they are my friends.)
This question is not meant to bring flame wars!

I use Windows at my work and home.
Of course, I tried several linux OS's (RedHat, SUSE, Debian, Gentoo,
Ubuntu) and this year I even purchased Mini Mac.
However, I haven't succeeded to make myself used to these OS's.

I have some questions to linux users and Mac users.

1. When you use Ruby on Linux or just in general on Linux, do you use
text-mode or graphic-mode?

2. I've never succeeded to make my laptops work perfectly on Linux.
Sometimes, network card is not working, other times, USB is not
recognized, or Sound card is not working. I've tried on 5 different
laptops with different Linux but none was perfect. How do you overcome
this problem? Well... if you use just a text-mode, this might not be a
problem.

3. For Mac users, do you feel OK with the simple mouse? Probably I'm
too accustomed to Windows mouse. Whenever I use Mac, I miss the
right-button and scroll-wheel.

If anybody has experience of moving from Windows to Linux or Mac,
please share the success story.

Thanks.

Sam