[ubuntu-in] How to do dual boot install of Ubuntu on Mac

[Pratul Kalia]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Lokesh Chauhan<lokeshchauhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why can't you sue them?? Take them to court about being biased and not
> respecting you feeling.

Bah, sue them and get what? Tell them to sell Linux pre-loaded
laptops? There are barely any models in the market that do that and
those are not the ones that come under Education discounts. He'll only
get hackled by the college authorities if he does that.

You can find numerous guides on the web for dual booting with OS X
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/) but if you want to use
Linux, I don't recommend you get a Mac. The hardware is quite weird
and is built to be used with Mac OS. You will have small/big issues
that will keep nagging you :-) Instead, get a Windows machine, format
and use with Linux. Whee!

> On the other hand why do u need to install ubuntu when you are having MacOsX
> which is simply awsome.

Even though such statements usually attract flame wars (which I have a
lot of interest in ;-), I'll give my opinion here anyway. I've been
using OS X for almost a year now (before using Ubuntu for almost 4
years) and I find Ubuntu far easier and fun to use than Mac OS. Even
though the UI of Mac OS is quite good, there are other kinks in the OS
(and general ones that closed-source OS' usually have) that simply
don't exist in Ubuntu or other Linux distros.


My 2 bytes :-)
Pratul

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