Ubuntu

I was actually really close to thinking about making the switch to ubuntu. Mac Pro’s are getting ridiculously expensive, and that $630 price tag for 2GB of RAM from apple kinda makes me sick, but Ubuntu’s still not really ready even for me. I don’t want my local computer to be my hobby. My hobby is the web, wikipedia etc. I want my local computer to work. I don’t need everything to be super easy, but I do need it to be possible. The deal-breaker is that I don’t want to be behind when new fun things like amazon mp3 come out. And I like streaming divx to my xbox without jumping through ridiculous hoops. Coming from a mac background, I don’t accept that I need to boot into windows for some things, or use wine. That’s dumb. If I have to use wine for some things the OS has failed.

I’m really looking forward to linux one day, because I think eventually it will come out with features faster than mac, and certainly windows. I haven’t seen it much yet other than compiz, which is nice, but ultimately lacking polish. But I have hope. We need the Mozilla of Linux. Maybe that’s Ubuntu, but I’m not so sure.