Math + CS = 11

I do believe that Thursday night, I will be uninstalling Ubuntu from from my
laptop and just use OS X again. The problem with Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro is
that the features that I use in OS X all the time, I cannot use in Ubuntu
because of driver issues or some other random reason. For example, I am unable
to turn down the screen brightness without doing a bunch of stuff in the
terminal. I am also unable to change the speed of my fans without the
terminal; not that I mind using the terminal, it’s just that having to do the
same series of commands over and over again when all my attempts to
automatically do it fail annoys me.

The programs that I would normally use for coding are also nonexistent in
linux. Editors like TextMate and Coda are very nice to use when working with
larger projects because you can quickly switch between files when if you
forget something. Vim is nice to use when working with smaller projects that
don’t require many files to function. I still have access to Vim in OS X too,
so linux really isn’t stopping me. The Arduino software was also giving me
problems in Ubuntu while it does not in OS X.

I will miss the alt+t keyboard command to access the terminal though, which
I’m still trying to figure out in OS X. People have suggested that I just use
Quicksilver and get used to it, but I don’t find it Quicksilver to be helpful.
Amarok was also nice to use and had a lot of features that I wish I iTunes had
and makes me wish the OS X version would come out sooner. Also, running a web
server off my laptop was pretty cool, but I can always use XAMPP on OS X and
just use the web server I have in my room for testing as well if XAMPP doesn’t
work.