Happy Holidays, Mac community! I'm a LONG LONG time lurker of these boards. I can't remember when I didn't lurk around this place. 
My PC is from the stone age. I built it two years ago from spare parts, which were already several years old. I've pretty much maxed the thing out in terms of hardware upgrades. It's at that age now where you know something major is going to croak any day. I'm planning on buying a new machine within the next several months. A Mac is one of the possibilities.
I'm a long time GNU/Linux user. At the moment, I have settled on two distributions. Arch Linux, and Ubuntu Linux. As much as I love GNU/Linux, work and school are taking up too much of my time to be able to mess with it. I need something that I won't have to mess around with, but will be able to if I so choose. This is why I am considering Mac.
I have always built my machines (since I was little). One of my concerns is that I'll miss being able to know my machine inside and out. Is there anybody here who used to build, who can tell me how easy it is to give this up?
Does Mac have a package manager available (having to install it from a third party source is fine), such as apt-get in Debian/Ubuntu? How full are the repositories? What kind of packaging system does Mac use?
How easy would the transition be for somebody such as myself? Would not having much, if anything, to configure make me lose my mind?
For Peace and Liberty,
Libertarian
My PC is from the stone age. I built it two years ago from spare parts, which were already several years old. I've pretty much maxed the thing out in terms of hardware upgrades. It's at that age now where you know something major is going to croak any day. I'm planning on buying a new machine within the next several months. A Mac is one of the possibilities.
I'm a long time GNU/Linux user. At the moment, I have settled on two distributions. Arch Linux, and Ubuntu Linux. As much as I love GNU/Linux, work and school are taking up too much of my time to be able to mess with it. I need something that I won't have to mess around with, but will be able to if I so choose. This is why I am considering Mac.
I have always built my machines (since I was little). One of my concerns is that I'll miss being able to know my machine inside and out. Is there anybody here who used to build, who can tell me how easy it is to give this up?
Does Mac have a package manager available (having to install it from a third party source is fine), such as apt-get in Debian/Ubuntu? How full are the repositories? What kind of packaging system does Mac use?
How easy would the transition be for somebody such as myself? Would not having much, if anything, to configure make me lose my mind?
For Peace and Liberty,
Libertarian
