From: Mitch Tishmack <idylls@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T12:26:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Trying to change my OS from Windows to Linux/Mac


Le Nov 21, 2005 � 7:48 PM, Michael Fellinger a �crit :
> well, cannot say anything about mac - my overall-use of it comes to  
> about...
> well - 2 hours :)
> i just never got around to buy one of these things.

Tried a mac lately? I find os x to be unix enough that it doesn't  
matter. And /opt/local is my new favorite for "special" compiles.

>> 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?

Text mode for almost everything. I am a Windows->Linux->Linux+Mac 
+Solaris convert.

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

Hi my name is Mitch, and I converted from Windows to almost a pure  
Unix setup about 7 years ago. Kept windows only for mmorpgs. Which  
thankfully I am over now. :) BeOS fits in there somewhere too.

I prefer Gentoo for my Linux though. Less cruft if you install it  
properly from stage 1, though this is NOT for new to unix users(that  
is stage 3 :). And Vim is your friend. Just get the ruby-macros.vim  
so you have less to type.

Trying to keep this short because I bet nobody cares about my  
conversion.

Ciao!