Interested in what exactly is consuming most of my disk space on my laptop I took a look using Disk Inventory X. The little utility fired up and scanned my hard drive in no time.
When the scan was complete I was given a detailed map of everything on my hard drive, organized by directory. Optionally there is also a side menu showing file usage by type. This comes in very handy for finding out where all your disk space is being used.
Maybe I should just get a larger disk?
I did it, I finally own a macbook. I’ve wanted a mac since the first time I laid my eyes on OSX. Mind you that was a long time ago. But I couldn’t really justify the cost, I still can’t but I did it anyway. And besides I needed a new laptop, as the Dell has seen far better days. There, thats justification enough!
Besides I was sick of XP and the whole eXPerience. I just can’t get over how crappy XP worked on the laptop. It was fairly obvious that laptop features and services were just an after thought. Its a shame really, given the size of microsoft. Of course I also realize apple only has to support their own hardware, which is bound to make it easier.
So apple has it easier when it comes to making my laptop go to sleep when I close the lid. But there is no excuse when it comes to UI features. OSX is rich with them. Simplifying tasks and looking good while doing it. This is where microsoft should shine, but they don’t. Which is sad considering the size and resources the company has at its finger tips. It might just be time to drop the old dos backend and start again fresh.
Recently my need for the nice smooth look of OSX forced me into trying to take a simple kubuntu install and seeing just how close I could get it to the osx look and feel.
I used baghira to do most of this and followed the guide located here. Now I like to think I got really close, and I was very happy with the overall look and feel of the system. But the more I used it the more problems I found.
It seems baghira doesn’t play well with common linux programs like the Gimp, Firefox, and others, causing them to show up completely black, crash, or to just run like ass.
For what it was worth it was a fun exercise, but I don’t think I will try it again. Perhaps there are other forms of eye candy for linux. I will continue to play around until I have the desktop install I want. Take a look at some of the screen shots I took of my efforts.
