Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
Last July I bought one of the new Macbook Air's.  The price for the hardware you got was unbeatable, and that was ignoring build quality!  While previous Air's were anemic tarted up netbooks, the 2011 Air's were (and are) powerful enough for everyday use.<p>There was just one problem with the Air however.  Horrible Linux support.  I'd been using Kubuntu happily for years.  After looking at all the ugly dirty hacks people were using to get their Air's running, I decided to give OSX a trial for 6 months or so.  Long enough for Linux support to mature.  I hadn't used OSX since the early 2000's and it looked like the OS had come a long way.  To be precise, what really changed my mind was how far the OSX modding community had come.  Despite being hated and loathed by Apple, they had managed to fill in some of the gaping holes in core functionality that Apple philosophy forbade, such as a way to remap keys (in all applications, not just some).  I could finally remap the Apple key to something that didn't break my touch-typing habits on all the other OS's I use daily!<p>6 months later, I'm ready to jump ship.  I like OSX Lion's touchpad gestures, but beyond that, I'll miss little else about the OS.  OSX isn't bad mind you, but it's infuriatingly difficult to modify when it does something you don't like.  It's buggy.  It's actually pretty dated and ugly looking now too.  OSX's virtual desktop management has absolutely <i>nothing</i> on KDE's.<p>Unfortunately, just as the next version of Kubuntu was starting to look like a good one for the Air, Canonical announced that they are ceasing paid development of Kubuntu.  My favorite KDE distro is now officially on deathwatch.  Maybe it will live on with community support, like any other distro has to, or maybe it'll fall by the wayside.  I appreciate what Canonical is trying to do with Unity, but it's not for me.  I'd long felt like Kubuntu, despite it's many virtues, was being treated like a red-headed step-child.  This tears it.  I haven't decided what distro I'm going to yet, but it will be one that puts KDE first, and that rules out anything Ubuntu.