To be honest with you, I love Mac OS X. But I really like Ubuntu. I wanted to give it a try, and my Macbook is out of warranty now, so I figured now is a good time. As for programs, trust me, I know which ones are native or not, but my hard drive was fried, so on my new hard drive I figured I'd start fresh. As it turns out, my new desktop coming in on Monday will have no OS so even if I do go back to OS X on my laptop, I'm probably going to want to get this stuff figured out one way or another... because I REALLY hate Windows. Anyways. What kind of terminal output do you need and how do I get that for you? How do I know if I'm trying to run in OpenGL or not? I didn't see an option anywhere.