MindPhlux, I found your comment quite interesting and thought I'd share my experience with Linux and how it eventually made me completely shift off M$ for the post part.
In my younger years I spent most of my time tinkering and modding PCs. At one time I had 5+ PCs at home running Windows (something), Redhat, Gentoo, Debian and a couple other distros. Setting up Gentoo from scratch was such a learning experience...and then came Ubuntu \o/...
Since 2001 I started studying at University and I wanted an OS that I could rely on for the most part and decided to give Apple ago and their PPC based machines were an improvement over Windows since I could run all my favourites thanks to Fink and X11...but I still couldn't have Linux running at the same time.
Fast forward to 2008, I only have two computers - a MacBook Pro and an iMac both running Intel procs and I can run Ubuntu inside Parallels when I need it.
I have managed to ween myself off 'Word' to use LaTeX and all my emails are handled by Gmail. I find myself looking to use a lot more GNU implementations of software these days that I did previously but most would criticize that going Apple is no better than running M$ stuff.
Gaming? Don't get me started - I used to buy a new graphics card and re-spec my PCs every 3 months just to keep up with the latest games. I've now stopped gaming on PCs and enjoy playing on the 360, PS2, PS3, and Wii.
I can keep my work, entertainment (oh yea, I love VLC!) and gaming more or less independent of each other.
Mac OS X has been my primary OS since 2002 and for the time being I am not looking back; that said I have *NOT* shifted to Leopard as Tiger (10.4) does everything I need.
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MindPhlux, I found your comment quite interesting and thought I'd share my experience with Linux and how it eventually made me completely shift off M$ for the post part. In my younger years I spent most of my time tinkering and modding PCs. At one time I had 5+ PCs at home running Windows (something), Redhat, Gentoo, Debian and a couple other distros. Setting up Gentoo from scratch was such a learning experience...and then came Ubuntu \o/... Since 2001 I started studying at University and I wanted an OS that I could rely on for the most part and decided to give Apple ago and their PPC based machines were an improvement over Windows since I could run all my favourites thanks to Fink and X11...but I still couldn't have Linux running at the same time. Fast forward to 2008, I only have two computers - a MacBook Pro and an iMac both running Intel procs and I can run Ubuntu inside Parallels when I need it. I have managed to ween myself off 'Word' to use LaTeX and all my emails are handled by Gmail. I find myself looking to use a lot more GNU implementations of software these days that I did previously but most would criticize that going Apple is no better than running M$ stuff. Gaming? Don't get me started - I used to buy a new graphics card and re-spec my PCs every 3 months just to keep up with the latest games. I've now stopped gaming on PCs and enjoy playing on the 360, PS2, PS3, and Wii. I can keep my work, entertainment (oh yea, I love VLC!) and gaming more or less independent of each other. Mac OS X has been my primary OS since 2002 and for the time being I am not looking back; that said I have *NOT* shifted to Leopard as Tiger (10.4) does everything I need.