Linux -> Mac?

[tleslie]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:03 -0400, Michael MacLeod wrote:
> On 5/6/07, JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>         
>         No doubt there is a difference, I would never dispute that. I
>         wish I had the
>         bucks for a Mac, 

on that note:
Mac igloo G4  for sale (igloo is "the" mac, if you want retro),
I got it upwards of two years ago, got a new drive via cpu-used,
bought it for 1200$ and then bought legal copy of 10.4 ,
so have about 1320$ into it. (legal copy should allow you to use it for
a upgrade offer to 10.5)
make an offer!. no dead pixels. Ran 100% perfect while i had it on
(which was 6-8months) then I got 
a Quad cpu AMD (2.6*4) box running compiz (and 8GB ram), now there is no
looking back, and the igloo is enjoying retirement.

-tl


>         it's always been my dream to pick one up. I'm curious, though,
>         and I'm not asking in an argumentative sense at all: with a
>         Mac, how much is 
>         one able to make personalized changes to the way the Mac UI
>         behaves?
> 
> There are of course some options in the System Preferences menu for
> the look and feel of the OS, but not like one would be used to in
> Linux, especially if you've used the beryl setting manager. 
> 
> The apple website features this series of articles:
> http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/customize/ which document how you
> can customize your mac using the System Preferences. There are also
> third party apps you can download that can modify the interface in
> other ways. One example is Uno: http://gui.interacto.net/
> 
> But I honestly haven't strayed too far from the defaults. I like the
> 'graphite' theme, and I put the scroll buttons at the top and bottom
> of the scroll bar instead of both being at the bottom by default. But
> beyond that I don't really change much. I like the interface very
> much. There are of course a few things I'd like to see done a little
> differently, but they aren't important enough for me to get frustrated
> by it, I just work around it. And more than a couple of times elements
> of the interface that I thought I'd hate I've since grown to see are
> actually really smart. 
> 

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