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Read the previous entries... it was bound to happen eventually. I guess OS X just wasn't meant for me.

In the end I turned my iBook into a fancy paperweight and got a Samsung Q35 instead. It runs Kubuntu and it's great.

Now I can finally type in French (something you cannot do with a Windows or a Mac OS machine, at least not easily, just try entering "Ç" or "Œ" without digging in the character list in any of those), I have a proper window manager (which is a detail to pretty much anybody but me, I know), and a Unix I can make sense of (Mac OS may be Unix, it never made sense to me). And it's probably just me, but I really like digiKam much better than iPhoto (iPhoto blows chunks IMO but I seem to be the only one thinking so, either it got *way* better or I'm really weird).

Presumably I'm some kind of exception that confirms the rule or something. But the Mac adventure really didn't work out.

Now I could have installed Linux on the iBook. I didn't do so for the following (admittedly debatable) reasons :

• it was a fairly slow machine (not a real problem in a notebook really) ;
• it was PPC based which restricted the use of a number of software packages (for a number of people, Linux still means x86 Linux) ; among others I wanted to run Bibbl ;
• it had a single button mouse and X11 needs (or rather works much better with) 3
• I was really fed up with it.