Linux is cool. Linux is awesome. Linux is powerful. Linux can do more than any OS out there.

That said my primary work machine is staying a Macbook pro. It requires less work to keep it working smoothly and the integration of all the pieces of the OS into the core utilities is very valuable. Plus the nice hardware features like the light sensors just work. Linux could do everything my Mac does but it would require a lot of work to get it to that point.

If some smart geek pioneer wants to go through all the headaches and create a "perfect" distro for my macbook where everything "just works" then I might just wipe Leopard and give it a try. But every time I google on converting my system I get lots of pages of frustrated geeks that have to manually tweak things or live with annoyances.

Next laptop I'll probably buy a prebuilt linux system.

David