Finally, I have made my shift to the most advanced operating system in the world (not to mention the hardest to setup on non-Apple hardware), Mac OS X Lion! This marks the last date of Ubuntu being the primary operating system of my workstation. From now on, OS X will be ruling over the boot menu.

Questions

• Why Mac OS X? This is a question that I really can’t answer. I won’t be lying about the “hype” in the developer community reagarding OS X and also can’t just blow off the number of tools available for Web Developers on this platform. I also prefer the stunning visuals of this specific operating system.

• Why not Mountain Lion? Because, Mountain Lion doesn’t support my graphics card out-of-the-box. I really wasted a lot of time testing and trying out kernel extensions (which don’t work), so I decided to stay with the older Lion which has built-in out of the box support for my AMD Raedon HD5450 Card (Sapphire). I am really too much lazy to edit kexts and stuff (at this moment).

• What’s your Hardware configuration? It’s basic hardware dude! ” Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz

• Motherboard: Intel DG41RQ

• RAM: 2GB

• HDD: 500GB SATA

• AGP: AMD Raedon HD5450 (Sapphire, 2GB DDR5)

• Monitor: Samsung S19B150

• USB: Keyboard, Mouse and Sound Card

• Is your system stable? Can you work one hour at a strech? You bet! Is is super-stable on my current hardware configuration with NO CUSTOM Kernel Extensions (or kexts). Every one of my hardware is supported by the operating system itself. So, I really don’t have any unwanted crashes or kernel panics during bootup or while working.

• What are your favorite apps on OS X? PyCharm, WebStorm, iTunes, SourceTree, iTerm, MPlayerX, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, iWork Suite…

Hoping to enjoy this operating system more than anything I witnessed before. Although I had issues getting Ruby, rbenv working properly, it is normal to face difficulties first time using a new operating system. Rock on OS X!