Ok finally I bought my MacBook Pro last weekend. I’ve been a Linux user since 1998 using it on my servers, desktops and laptops. I used almost all linux distros but my favorites are Ubuntu and Open Suse

I’ve always been a big Linux advocate at school, work and home. I started using Linux when it was almost impossible to get any of your new hardware configured without spending hours and hours compiling your kernel, installing missing libraries and hacking configuration files…

Things now are much better thanks to the open source community and to the support of some big companies and entrepreneurs.

So why did I buy a MacBook?
Not because I don’t like Linux desktop anymore; in fact, Linux desktop makes more since to me than OS X. I think Linux desktop has the best of both Windows and OS X. Yeah it still lacks integration between its applets (drag and drop doesn’t work sometimes) but overall it’s decent and much prettier than Windows.. My real reason was the fact that I needed to use some commercial software which was only available for Windows or OS X.. of course I chose OS X over Windows.

OS X is very convenient in the sense that it’s based on Unix which means I can still install all my open source applications and use command line and shell..

So the move wasn’t very radical after all ….