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Interviews: Ask 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke
Matthew Helmke (personal blog) is the author of the newly published 11th edition of Ubuntu Unleashed (published by Pearson); this updated edition of the book will cover the OS through Ubuntu's 15.10 and (forthcoming) 16.04 releases. Helmke is also a former Ubuntu Forum administrator, a musician, an entrepreneur, and a long-time Slashdot reader who now leads a "nice quiet life in Iowa." Ask Matthew about what it's like to be a Linux book author and community leader, and his thoughts on Canonical, the goods and bads of modern Linux distributions, and the future of Ubuntu -- especially relevant with the upcoming release of the first Ubuntu-based tablet. (Remember, Matthew isn't responsible for gripes you may have with either Ubuntu or Canonical, but he might have some good solutions to particular problems.) Ask as many questions as you'd like; we just ask that you keep them on-topic, and please stick to one question per post.
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For one, run MS Office in a VM if you want it on Linux. Apple is probably your best option. Let's face it, any X windows based system is going to crash on you Not trolling this is just my experience. Minimal installs with no GUI do fine however. I would go with OS X: very stable GUI, BSD/Unix under the hood. Homebrew is an awesome package manager. If you do a little bit of homework you'll discover you can do system updates and most app updates from commandline, spotlight search with mdfind, and all sorts of advanced power management settings all from a shell. (and more much more) for example, the osacompile and osascript commands, check. Also, Apple remote desktop is pretty decent as well. I use it often when I'm out of the house.