From: Kevin Brown Date: 2005-11-22T09:13:58+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] Trying to change my OS from Windows to Linux/Mac On Monday 21 November 2005 11:12, Sam Kong wrote: > 1. When you use Ruby on Linux or just in general on Linux, do you use > text-mode or graphic-mode? X for me is a tool to open more consoles and be able to switch quickly. It also is nice to have pretty apps every once in a while. > 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. Depends on the distro. Depends on the problem. Linux is not perfect, but neither is any other OS I've ever used. Ubuntu specifically has a goal for the next release that they're going to take 5 or so laptops and make them work PERFECTLY with Ubuntu out of the box. As they continue to add other laptops things will magically start working for the rest of us. > 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. Control click works. What else works very well is to simply use a USB mouse with right mouse button and scroll wheel. In fact, being that the Mini didn't come with a mouse, you could have bought one with a right mouse button and scroll wheel and not known the difference. > If anybody has experience of moving from Windows to Linux or Mac, > please share the success story. I really just migrated over time to Linux and then had to give mac a whirl. I'm working right now on my Kubuntu laptop with a G5 sitting on the other side. I feel alienated on Windows any more, because I simply don't know the toolset very well. My job is writing Ruby code for Linux (KDE currently), so life is good. There's really not a whole lot to say but start using it, and you'll break it a few times, sure, but you'll learn and start feeling like you mastered it too.