With my iBook stuck at Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, it isn’t going to be long before it is severely outdated and software makers and especially web browser plugin developers leave us behind. Ubuntu has more in common with OS X, both in terms of its Unix underpinnings and cosmetics, than with Windows, so the move is easier for a Mac user. I still have an old ThinkPad 600 (introduced in 1998) running Ubuntu 10.04, and, despite its age and low speed, I find myself using it more than my iBook.Īs user friendly as they try to make Ubuntu, it is still a steep learning curve and heavily nerdy OS – and not always for the average user. In brief, I sold my TiBook, moved to Ubuntu and Windows XP, and then promptly bought an iBook G3 and returned to the Mac world.
At the beginning of this year, I wrote about my return to the Mac world after a brief time using Windows and Linux. But does it match up to Mac OS X?Ībout 18 months ago, I wrote about Linux as an OS X alternative. Is Ubuntu a realistic alternative to Mac OS X? For some it could be, but your experience will differ if you have a PowerPC Mac or an Intel Mac.
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