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Leaving Apple Behind

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. There are some tools that our team uses that I need to use that have no Macintosh version or alternative – and collaboration with our team using MS Office tools has become so much smoother.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine. One minor point: have you tried Twhirl on Ubuntu? As Linus said: Have a lot of fun. Ubuntu, Fedora, Blag, Mandriva, Gentoo, and so on. 4 Brian 06.25.08

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