Hot day. I did the lawn after all. I figured I better do it before I sat down or it wouldn’t get done.
I was right.
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Ubuntu leaves the previous kernel available for booting. In a pinch you can choose that one if things get broken.
I used Linux on my desktop and laptop until 2009 (I believe). Red Hat Linux, and then Fedora when Red Hat dropped their non-Enterprise distribution. I finally got tired enough of the “every update, wifi or video or sound breaks” mess, and of wifi often not working all that well in hotels or coffee shops.
I gave in and accepted a MacBook Pro from our IT people (who were probably tired of the few of us remaining who used Linux on our laptops having problems all the time). While there are things that I preferred about Linux, on balance life is so incredibly much easier with OS X that I’m not ever likely to look back. I have VMWare Fusion and a Fedora VM on my laptop, but I use it very rarely nowadays.
I am, by the way, a software engineer and was one of the last hold-outs to switch to OS X. We develop carrier-grade DNS/DHCP software that we ship on a lot of different platforms, but I rarely have need of a non-OS-X machine for my development work. Windows would be an absolutely unworkable OS for the sort of work I do, but OS X being UNIX under the hood it does a good enough job as a development platform. 🙂
I’m not saying “give in and switch”, but the frustration got to the point where for me it was worthwhile. I’ve decided that even on my own dime (my laptop now is a MacBook Pro that I bought for myself) Apple laptops are worth it. YMMV!