{"id":421,"date":"2004-11-28T01:36:30-05:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T09:36:30+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=421"},"modified":"2004-11-28T01:36:30-05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T09:36:30+00:00","slug":"lesser-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/11\/28\/lesser-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I got my Macintosh in July, I half expected that it would become my primary workstation, as I’d seen detailed by a number of (often surprised!) bloggers like Tim Bray<\/a> and James Duncan Davidson<\/a>. Despite my initial bad experience<\/a>, once it resolved itself I was gung-ho to use OS X–I even impressed myself<\/a> by fixing a problem to which even Google couldn’t find a solution.<\/p>\n\n

The more I used the Mac over the next several days, though, the more I found myself wanting… something<\/em>. I’m still not sure exactly what it was–I tried all of the built-in applications and liked features of them, particularly Mail’s ability to combine IMAP accounts–but I found myself using the X server and terminal window to connect to my Linux box more and more often. (It didn’t help that Mac’s X server doesn’t antialias fonts.) Finally I gave up: I reconnected the monitor to the Linux host and Switch<\/cite>ed back.<\/p>\n\n

I still use the Mac from time to time when I want to check websites in Safari and IE5\/Mac, but mostly it’s just a CD ripper for my iPod. It’s not even as good at that as my Linux machine: the iPod seems to choke on some iTunes-generated MP3s, even with error correction enabled and having the encoded files “optimized for Velocity Engine”, but I haven’t had a hiccup playing back the files I ripped and encoded in Linux.<\/p>\n\n

One final irony–much to John’s<\/a> chagrin–is that because I don’t use the Mac as my desktop, my primary means of using its UI is through a virtual display running on X under GNOME. It’s just easier that way.<\/p><\/div>

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