One month with Mac OS X

After some years of using Linux (I think my first distrib was a RedHat 5.1, but I'm not sure) I've switched last month to Mac OS X.

The change between a Dell Inspiron + Fedora Core 3 and a PowerBook 17 + Panther is radical.

• with Linux the suspend to disk is not very easy to set up, in contrast with OS X, I never stop my PB !
• a clean filesystem, it's UNIX, but it's clean.
• a very good GUI, on Linux I'm used to use GNOME that has learnt a lot from OS X, but now with the original, it's better.
• a very well design hardware, all the PC laptops look ugly to me now !

Really, when software and hardware are designed in the same time, by the same people, it makes the difference.

I've added some software to make OS X more "geek friendly"

• a virtual desktop manager Virtue (thanks Yann for this comparative)
• a launcher (and more) QuickSilver
• an SSH tool Fugu
• a monitoring tool MenuMeters
• THE browser, Firefox
• an Email client Thunderbird, but it's still very buggy, and not very integrate with the OS, on this point, Linux and Evolution 2 are better.

The most important drawback of this switch is the Terminal , I've tried different solutions, Terminal, iTerm, xterm (from X11), but nothing works as well as with Linux. Maybe with Tiger in a few days :)