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Been debating between Ubuntu and Fedora on the same machine. What made Fedora fall short?

• arca_vorago 11y ago
  Video card drivers, but it was because the the RPM fusion repos for 22 beta weren't out at the time, and so you were basically pulling in 21 drivers. I've been considering trying 22 again now it's out or even 23 alpha. I would like to know how it works for you if you try. Protip: Since I am gaming/gamedeving, I need video drivers to work, and on the MBP you HAVE to boot/install from BIOS mode and not UEFI mode if you want things to work well. Also, that whole experience of trying every distro known to man on the MBP made me hate apples weird u/EFI setup, and UEFI in general. /gimme bios back!
  • snuxoll 11y ago
    > Protip: Since I am gaming/gamedeving, I need video drivers to work, and on the MBP you HAVE to boot/install from BIOS mode and not UEFI mode if you want things to work well. Also, that whole experience of trying every distro known to man on the MBP made me hate apples weird u/EFI setup, and UEFI in general. Yes, please do hate Apple's garbage EFI implementation, maybe someday they'll actually get the hint and release UEFI compliant firmware. I use UEFI daily on four different systems in my house (Lenovo W540, Surface Pro, XPS 13 (2014), custom-build desktop) with no issues, but god help you if you try to boot anything but OS X on a Mac without using BIOS Emulation.