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Originally Posted by widebody911
If you're switching to a Mac because you're put off by the cost of PC replacement parts, you're gonna have a bad time...
Too bad you're not local; I have some excess high-end HP workstations just collecting dust at home.
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Nope. But I'm not gonna spend $ on college owned equipment. If I move to Windows, ITS won't let me install the tools that I prefer to use to do all of my jobs, and this Mac was never being used and just sat collecting dust.
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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Just enable root user.
Like Ubuntu, it's disabled by default.
Easy to enable and the thought process is, anyone who knows why and how to do it is probably qualified to have it enabled.
It's to spare the casual consumer from firing up terminal and doing something stupid.
FWIW, I use iTerm, much better than the built in terminal.
Lately I've been using Brackets for my text editor.
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Already can run stuff via sudo, so that isn't the issue. All of the apps I use are fully cross platform, but OS X isn't exactly consistent about where it keeps my settings info. For example, Firefox profile is under ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles but on Linux it is in ~/.mozilla/profiles. Thunderbird - an application from the same company - stores in ~/.config/Thunderbird on OS X and in ~/.thunderbird on Linux
Growing pains/changing pains.