Linux -> Mac?

[Dave Cramer]

On 7-May-07, at 1:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:17:06AM -0400, Michael MacLeod wrote:
>> On 5/5/07, JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Actually, I spent some time recently setting up ubuntu feisty on  
>> my room
>> mates computer. Firstly, let me say that Ubuntu continues to  
>> impress. I've
>> been a fan since breezy, but it keeps getting better. Anyway, the  
>> computer
>> dual boots now, and it's specs are good enough to run oblivion  
>> well when
>> booted into windows. It's got an ATI X800 card (not my choice,  
>> like I said,
>> my room mate built it).
>>
>> I decided to install beryl. For all the claims of "just do apt-get  
>> install
>> beryl" and it's done, that's just not true. But it took an hour  
>> and a half
>> to get beryl up and running. AIGLX vs. XGL, open vs. closed source  
>> driver,
>> making sure the xorg.conf had compositing disabled vs. enabled,  
>> etc. I'm
>> sorry, but for as wonderful as Ubuntu is (and I'm a fan), there  
>> are plenty
>> of things that still break *way* too often in linux. Yes, beryl is  
>> beta
>> software, and it gets a bit of a pass as a result, but don't try  
>> and pretend
>> it's just a matter of apt-getting it. GFTP is a matter of just apt- 
>> getting,
>> not beryl.
>
> Well if you happen to have an nvidia based card and are running the
> nvidia closed drivers, then it really doesn't take much other than
> install the beryl packages.  If you have something else, you get to  
> play
> with aiglx or xgl and all that other lovely mess.
>
> I actually wasted a bunch of time before figuring out that all those
> instructions did in fact NOT apply to me since I was using an nvidia
> where things just worked.  No xgl or aiglx mess required.

This is exactly the point of the Mac argument. There are no "if you  
happen to have" instances. It all "just works"

I have nothing against linux, I wouldn't dream of using OS X in a  
server environment, but for my day to day work, I simply don't have  
time to mess with this stuff.

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