I'm thinking about buying Macbook Pro this fall because I'm not satisfied with Vista, XP, or Ubuntu.
I've tried Vista. But after a year or so, I got tired of it for various reasons (slowness, driver issues, etc) and switched back to XP. XP is a good OS, in fact exceptional in my opinion. But after all these years I just don't feel excited about using it. To spice up my mundane PC life I need something new and fun.
I've tried Ubuntu 8.04. I felt it was one of the most user-friendly and polished Linux distributions ever. But it just takes too much time for me to configure it the way I like.
For example, I've spent 6 hours browsing forums looking for a solution just to make my webcam work on ubuntu. I've tried some uncomprehensible long terminal commands that some random people advised on forum but none of them worked. And this webcam fiasco is like merely one of 5 technical problems I've had with ubuntu, and I've had none of them on XP. Sure I like playing around with OS a bit, but I just don't want to put so much time and effort into it.
That's why I'm interested in trying out OSX. I wish that Apple would make OSX installable on non-Apple system so that I can use it on my current PC. But I suppose it won't happen given that Apple presumably profit greatly from selling hardware without having to compete with clones.
No, it's not going to stop 'Til you wise up
No, it's not going to stop So just ... give up
- Aimee Mann
