Greenies Blog

Hi all,

this is a quite sad post for me. My old iMac G4 has died and as I didn’t have the money to buy a new Mac (and wanted to give Linux a try anyway) I bought myself a (relatively) cheap PC and put Ubuntu on it.

So far, my experiences are not that bad. The amount of software is surely impressive and all of it for free. But, quality isn’t the same as quantity and (while I have only used this Ubuntu PC for a few days now), I think many of the Apps I have been using on the Mac are far, far better in terms of usability than what I have found on Ubuntu. Not to speak about OS X itself. While I highly disliked some aspects of OS X, the user-experience (imho) is far, far better than the one with Ubuntu, as well.

At the moment I am a bit biased. I want to give Ubuntu a chance and see if I can get used to it. Though I have a slight problem with that approach. On OS X I felt “at home”, things “just worked” 99 percent of the time. Linux/Ubuntu, as much as it may be advertised as that, just isn’t in the same league, imho.

To be honest, I do miss OS X (and all the great software available for it), more than I thought, while using Ubuntu. Maybe enough that I will save my money to get a cheap macMini sometime, I don’t know.

That brings me to the main purpose of this post. No Mac means no widgets, meaning at the moment I am unable to develop (or better: to test) my widgets, so for the time being, there won’t be any new versions. There are apps that are said to be able to run Dashboard-widgets on Ubuntu, but so far I didn’t get any of them to work right.

That’s all, folks.