Replacing Mac OS X with Linux

[MacLindroid]

Mac Lindroid is still OK

exactly, running Linux on a mac is a pain, I've been there before with endless grub/efi issues and bad driver support. The only other OS meant for a mac is windows an only officialy run via bootcamp.

See my comments about running Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca 64x with Cinnamon Desktop.

Seriously, if you don't like Mac OS X, get a PC and install Linux. You will always have driver issues. Why even bother? me personally, I don't understand why you would want to do it anyway, I do not find Linux suitable for using as a general desktop OS. The Mac is more than capable of doing everything a Linux machine can and more. All the CLI stuff as well as running X applications. You then also have the ability to run all the Mac software too.

Mac OS is much slower and too much fiddling after software updates to rty things to work again. Perhaps I was just unlucky (together with a few hundred thousand other users) to hava experienced flawed updates, but it was much worse than anything Windows ever dreamed up. In my limited experience, that is.

Whatever you can do with Linux you can do with osx

Mint just does it so much more seamless and sweet. And I can actually USE things like Bluetooth.........

at work I run OS X, it just works. at home, Windows, because games. Everywhere else, linux.

I think people should use what's most suited to their needs and stop debating obvious flaws in each one of them.

No perfect OS exists and one has to allow for some margin of frustration. If it can run a decent browser fast, then I am on board. My brwosers get hardened and therefore need more CPU power. This is where Linux is obviously faster (obvious = visible with the naked eye) than Mac.

At OP - going off Mac, what will your new forum handle be?


At others: With home-brew you can do everything Linux can do. I also think people overlook how little maintenance a OS X system requires.

Mac was a maintenance disaster.........well documented on official Apple suppoirt forums and MacRoumours.com. Thousands upon thousands of people were affected so badly that they even had to start using Google, etc. Did Steve Jobs take Apple with him? Linux Mint is just what I had expected from Mac OS in the first instance.

I am not yet planning to go off Mac - at the very least, the hardware will remain.

 

[jansdejager]

Lenovo and hp is your brands of choice for trendy versatile notebooks and their components are top of the line. I recommend getting an ultrabook since they are geared towards cloud computing and give you fast computing at a balanced component make-up. the hp stream 11 is a great example of this. A lot of these ultrabooks also run either chrome os or android, incase you have qualms with windows.

 

[soliton]

I've been using Linux as primary desktop and macbook air on the road for quite a few years. I have tried to run Linux natively on my mac a few years back, but had quite a few issues with drivers and not as straight forward as OSX out of the box (of course!).

I used rEFIt to dualboot between the Mac and Linux, but I find the battery life also not as good as running OSX directly. Can't remember the exact details as it was a few years back. Now I settle with running a Linux VM on Virtualbox + MacPort on OSX.

Good luck!