to dual boot my mac or not
mitch @ 10:41 pm on April 7, 2008
Well, I’ve had the macbook pro for a couple weeks now, and while I personally don’t have a problem with Mac OS X… its just not Linux. I like mac fine and all… When I’m using it however… I miss my ubuntu laptop. Browsing the web and doing email works just fine on the mac… also I generally would prefer the mac when doing movie stuff, however it was a pita to get xvid working. (it only took me 20 minutes or so, but that was still way to long, my “aptitude install gstreamer-*” works much nicer) And ports on the mac… what a joke, its an even bigger pita. It attempts to be like linux’s package managers, however, you have to install all the xcode tools before you can even run those, and that took 45 minutes or so. Over all… the Mac interface is definately nice, thats not my complaint, its just I like my open source tools, and the mac is just to proprietary for me to really work on. So..
I believe I will be repartitioning this mac… or maybe, i’ll try out the partition resizer built in… don’t really care if I corrupt the data on it… By this time tomorrow hopefully, I’ll be abe to dual boot the latest ubuntu 8.04 (yes, i know currently still beta)
