![]() For some reason, it has a smaller memory footprint. I like Chrome better on Linux than Mac or Windows. As you can see, when I run it full screen, it pretty much gives me all kinds of real-estate. Which I much prefer over the default chat client. This screenshot shows the Twitter client Hotot and the old faithful chat client – Pidgin. The result is much more pleasant and gives you more screen real-estate. When you run it on the laptop, the resolution on my MacBook is good enough to allow for the option to shrink the Unity buttons. The top screenshot shows Scrivener running on an older monitor. All of them seem to work just fine a week into using the new release. Shown are some of the programs I use on a regular basis. Here are some screenshots of my desktop under the new Ubuntu. I hope that when my MacBook dies, this support is also lauded on the new HP Folio 13, the next laptop in my future. The 12.4 release of Ubuntu has awesome support for Mac hardware and it runs great on my laptop. Ever since I did this, I’ve been living in Ubuntu land and have never once booted back into Mac for anything. So to help extend it’s life even further, I split the hard drive in half and installed the latest Ubuntu on it. Although the hardware is starting to slowly fall apart in places, the little bugger keeps on ticking. Apple no longer supports it and refuses to let me upgrade to Lion. My primary writing laptop is an old white MacBook. Job well done by the developers, testers! For the most part, Ubuntu looks great now and works great too. Sure there are little things if you look for them, but you could say that about any OS. The fit and finish of this release is at an all time high. I’m no longer concerned with that aspect of the OS. With this latest version of Ubuntu I think we can say that Unity is pretty well polished and integrated. But loyal Ubuntu users have doubled down and learned the new system, sometimes offering suggestions for improving it. Many users either turned off the feature or left the distro for more traditional versions of Linux and that’s their option. Ubuntu has been doing a fair bit of innovating lately with Unity. At the same time, I’m willing enough to give innovative new features a fair shake to decide whether I like them or not. I just want my OS to work and get out of my way. I rarely have issues with using the OS myself and I’ve gotten to the point where my tolerance for tweaking is lower than ever. ![]() Ubuntu have impressed me over the years with their ability to innovate and bring desktop Linux to a place where anyone can now use it. My preferred distribution of Linux for the past half decade has been Ubuntu. But we are a rare breed of writer, to say the least. Other writer types use Linux, or so I’m told. Those of you who follow this blog, that would be you and you, over there know that I prefer to use Linux over Windows and Mac operating systems.
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