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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
I say, build yourself a computer, put Linux Mint on it, and then install Open Office for the editing and writing software. You'll thank yourself. Mac is too proprietary and does too much to lock you in. Linux is open and you are free to do pretty much whatever you want with it.
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It's a good idea, but one reason I want the Mac is to try something new. The Mini will be my first desktop machine in over a decade that I didn't build. As for Linux, I spent most of 2009 running Ubuntu as the primary OS on my desktop machine.
I haven't done much with Linux Mint, but I've used half a dozen distros over the years, so a new one doesn't sound like anything special.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't really answer the question I asked. Besides, the Mac is already en route and it's not costing me any money - I'm just trading a bit of writing for it.
(Besides, if I get the yen for Linux I can just throw it on another of my boxen.)