Ubuntu vs mac
I remember when I used to switch user in OSX and be unable to play sound because another user was using the sound device too.Įvery widescreen monitor I've used with ubuntu has just been plug'n'play, same as OSX. Not perfect, but not a problem for normal users. Sound is largely a fixed problem now, your desktop environment provides a sound server and everything connects to it. maybe the next version will highlight it more. I suppose there is no flashing neon-light saying 'disk encryption' though. That seems very like disk encryption to me. If I have a zip file with a password then I can click on it, enter the password and browse/edit files on it using a finder-like interface. If your vpn is based on openvpn rather than pptp then OSX is out of date (2.0 rather than 2.1) so you can't get the full performance (2.1 adds better DNS support).ĭisk encryption.
If your VPN just has a password rather than keys then it hardly counts as private. On OSX to add keys for VPN use you have to go into the keychain as root which requires you to go to the terminal and sudo open /Applications/Keychain.app.
VPN is just as easy to set up on ubuntu as OSX. The lack of open ports on a default install makes this less of an issue too.
UBUNTU VS MAC HOW TO
Perhaps you'd care to share how you mount SMB shares at boot on an apple? Do you know how to do it in the GUI? Or how you find the shares when they don't turn up magically in the 'Network' tab - command-K followed by the IP address isn't it?įirewall is installed on ubuntu, and enabled by default. I mounted them by editing /etc/fstab at the same time I added nfs shares to my system. I haven't looked at smb.conf on the machine.Īs for mounting shares, I don't really know. I have ubuntu at work and printing to samba printing was as simple as adding a printer.