Hey Gintautas, You stole my points. They were good points (-.
I also use Ubuntu and have a separate workstation for Photoshop/ Windows. This other workstation has plenty of other uses that justify its existence, but the sheer fact that I need two workstations just to have couple dozens terminals opened and have Photoshop at the same time is giving me shivers. BTW by "those other uses" I mean: Ubuntu through VirtualBox running tests for the application. And it's an extra monitor so... couple dozens terminals more! Just don't tell me that MacBook is mobile while my environment is not. My setup would also be mobile if I only had a camel. I think I should have a Mac just because most of developers I collaborate with and clients in the U.S. use them. Only I'd need to learn all quirks of a Mac, and you know, we developers are lazy. Fortunately my current team (Rails team in Sage Software) settled on Ubuntu as well. Cheers, Wojciech -- http://twitter.com/WojciechK On Dec 5, 8:49 pm, Gintautas Šimkus <dihita...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well I have been sceptical about Mac (Ubuntu user here), because a big part > of it is just brand, but now when I think about it there are some advantages > of using Mac over Ubuntu: > 1) Photoshop has a version for mac, but not for Linux and as a freelancer I > have to deal with graphics from time to time. > 2) Textmate. Haven't used it myself, but from the podcasts I've seen it > looks pretty sexy. Currently using gvim. > > So when the time to buy a new laptop comes I will consider getting a mac. > > Does anybody have any other arguments for using mac over ubuntu? > > 2009/12/5 esavard <savard.etie...@gmail.com> > > > Anything is better than Windows to develop Rails. Linux (Ubuntu) does > > the job for me. I'm not a Mac guy mainly because the hardware cost > > much more than the equivalent (bogomips for bogomips) PC. > > > By the way, it's a nice script Colin. I have put something similar > > together but it install rails and other development tools (SCM, > > Database, Java, etc.) on Ubuntu using a dialogs (GUI + bash): > >http://symbiosoft.net/ubuntu_devenv > > > Etienne. > > > On 5 déc, 04:56, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > 2009/12/4 Steven Elliott Jr <stevenelliott0...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Macs are by fat the easiest way to get going in rails/ruby because > > > > it's there out of the box. A few gem commands and you're rockin' and > > > > rollin'. Windows and Linux are easy to set up too but require a bit > > > > more setup work. > > > > > Ubuntu is good but you have to use the stuff in the repositories by > > > > default which is ok but not as good as issuing gem commands. > > > > Not true, it is easy to install so that the gem commands can be used > > > in the normal way. I use this script to install the lamp stack, mysql > > > ruby and rails (on ubuntu 9.10), it does not get much easier than > > > this. It assumes that there is a folder ~/downloads > > > > # this installs the lamp stack, the ^ is important. Seehttps:// > > help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel > > > sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ > > > sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql phpmyadmin > > > > # this derived fromhttp:// > >www.hackido.com/2009/04/install-ruby-rails-on-ubuntu-904-jaunt... > > > # bits for building stuff > > > cd ~ > > > sudo apt-get install build-essential > > > # ruby and mysql stuff, this assumes that the lamp stack with mysql > > > has already been installed > > > sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc libmysql-ruby ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 > > > libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15off > > > libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 > > > rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 irb libopenssl-ruby libopenssl-ruby1.8 > > > libhtml-template-perl > > > wget -N -P ~/downloadshttp:// > > rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz > > > tar xvzf ~/downloads/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz > > > cd rubygems-1.3.5 > > > sudo ruby setup.rb > > > cd .. > > > rm -rf rubygems-1.3.5 > > > echo "making symlinks - not sure if this will always be necessary, > > > must be done if gem -v does not work" > > > sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem > > > sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/local/bin/ruby > > > sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rdoc1.8 /usr/local/bin/rdoc > > > sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ri1.8 /usr/local/bin/ri > > > sudo ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/local/bin/irb > > > # rails latest version > > > sudo gem install rails > > > > Colin > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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