That being said, I really like the look of Ubuntu. I used the dock in the gDesklets app and the Gnome Deskbar Applet (http://raphael.slinckx.net/deskbar/) to get similar functionality to Mac's Spotlight search and their dock.
If you advertise, they will come faster. I can't tell you how much Apple's sales would go up if they brought back the kind of ads they had during the first iMacs ("My family needed to do X and with their windows computer they had to do this and that and... and it didn't work. We plugged in my Mac and it worked instantly.").
A friend of mine - who not too long ago was railing against the idea of going to Mac because of features and price - just made the switch and is now completely in love with it. And what's making me interested is the kind of thing that you mentioned - he's been telling me about how easy it is to do most everything that you would need. Apple seems to focus so much on the image of their products that they neglect to emphasize how great the OS is and how well it works in terms of performance, usability and features.
If I had a better sense of how easy it was to use - as opposed to just how pretty it is - I would have seriously considered switching when I had to buy a new computer recently.
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I'm definitely prone to buffer overruns in that area.
There are ways to tailor Ubuntu so it's more like OSX...
u -dapper-look-like-osx
http://www.taimila.com/ubuntuosx.php
http://www.supriyadisw.net/2006/09/ultimate-ubunt
That being said, I really like the look of Ubuntu. I used the dock in the gDesklets app and the Gnome Deskbar Applet (http://raphael.slinckx.net/deskbar/) to get similar functionality to Mac's Spotlight search and their dock.
A friend of mine - who not too long ago was railing against the idea of going to Mac because of features and price - just made the switch and is now completely in love with it. And what's making me interested is the kind of thing that you mentioned - he's been telling me about how easy it is to do most everything that you would need. Apple seems to focus so much on the image of their products that they neglect to emphasize how great the OS is and how well it works in terms of performance, usability and features.
If I had a better sense of how easy it was to use - as opposed to just how pretty it is - I would have seriously considered switching when I had to buy a new computer recently.