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Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu?
Mindpicnic writes "The recent switch of two lifelong Mac nerds to Ubuntu hasn't escaped Tim O'Reilly's radar. He cites Jason Kottke: 'If I were Apple, I'd be worried about this. Two lifelong Mac fans are switching away from Macs to PCs running Ubuntu Linux: first it was Mark Pilgrim and now Cory Doctorow. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.'"
In related news, a number of Slashdot readers have recently switched to DIGG.
Really, how is this news? I know it's a slow news day, but really.......Couldn't we talk about that asteroid that came really close to the Earth instead?
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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I absolutely know what you are saying (regarding big vendors giving away the stuff). However, I did do some research on this. It turns out that if you want a high resolution (in my case the LC2440N is WSXGA+ and dual-boot with XP-Pro, i.e. you would order XP-PRO from dell and load ubuntu on your own) then the Dell choice was *way* more expensive. You cannot order such a system through "Home use", you have to order it through "Small business use", which for whatever reason adds a whole lot of cost. I did this research about two months ago. At that point I found this to be a much better deal (also I didn't want to deal with getting hold of proper video, wireless drivers etc...).
"Mac nerds? Are they the same sort of people as Windows hackers and Linux gamers?"
Did you know that you can play PS2 games in linux?
evil is as evil does
I've been in the I.T. field since it was a subset of I.S. At one job I had to support over 200 Macs at ValPak DMS (although I tried to slip those tickets to the Mac gurus in the dept. whenever possible). Vowed never to touch one if I could help it.
Just about 3 months ago I bought a friend's G4 Quicksilver running 10.4.6 . I think it's pretty cool, am having fun relearning an OS. Other than that though, I haven't the foggiest idea of what to do with it. Samba's setup and hooked into the 2003 AD domain, I've installed a ton of fun widgets, but other than that.... Windows unfortunately as my main OS for gaming, multiple Linux installs on various machines including my dual-boot laptop, and they all have dedicated purposes - Myth - with Samba sharing out all the multimedia :), OESSP2, GW7, FreeRadius, Apache, Asterisk w/AMP, etc.
Driving home after picking up the rig (came with a sweet NEC Diamondtron 20" FP2141sb) I kept looking into my backseat and just kept shaking my head.
Now that I have one, what the fsck do I do with it?!
Wait, What?