From Mac OS X to Linux on a MacBook Pro...

[awinterbreeze77]

Hello all,

A fit of insanity beset me and I completely wiped Mac OS X from my MBP. There is no going back unless I buy Leopard, which I don't want to do right now, so I have turned to Linux. Here's the deal:

All I want is a decent computer for work and for City of Heroes. Mac OS X has too many options, so much so that I don't get any work done (for example: do I use stickies, Journler, iCal, TextEdit, Pages, Word, the stickies widget, my to-do list widget, my combined stickies/to-do list widget, my widget with a clock and a to-do list attached, MacJournal, Writeroom, or - heck - Omni Outliner Professional to write myself a note? Ahhhhhhh!)

As you may know, MBPs have all sorts of features that translate rather shakily to other OSs. I.e., screen brightness, backlit keyboard, keyboard-controlled eject, keyboard controlled volume, no right click button, and so on.
But i tried Mint anyways, then Ubuntu (both KDE.) Here's the problems that I ran into:

Laptop Speakers don't work
Desktop effects (Compiz on Mint) cannot be activated. and I think OpenGL doesn't work either.
Cannot get on the internet (we use Wifi in my town, and while the computer will connect to the network, the browser cannot relocate itself to the wifi login page. kind of weird)
Brightness constantly sets itself to 0 (only ubuntu)

should i use a different distro? Should I sacrifice my computer to the fire gods and return to using pencil and paper? Should I try to make shorter posts? What should I do?
I'm a total linux noob, any help appreciated. right now i've resorted to using a computer with ... windows xp.
Please save me!

Thanks
Anthony

[Cabhan]

I don't really know much about running Linux on a Mac, but here are the support pages for Ubuntu on Macs:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSuppor...unityHelpPages

I will tell you right now that Linux has waaaaay more options than Mac OS X does, and that City of Heroes is not a Linux application, and does not run natively. If you want to use Linux and are not opposed to learning it (and it does have a learning curve), then I'm sure you can get help. If you want a computer that works just like a computer you've used before, then use a computer you've used before.