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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. And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun. It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate.

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Giving up, a little

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine.

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