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Is anyone running Arch on a 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 13"? I've seen conflicting reports of things working and not working, which is making me hesitant to try (I

• dmix 11y ago
  Yep I have previously used Arch on a 2013 Retina. Worked fine. The Arch wiki has pages dedicated to Macbooks if you need help. The only issue I had with macbooks was the wifi card was not detected by the installer after booting from USB. It works fine after installing a package using pacman once you get internet. So I always keep a cheap $10 Netgear USB wifi for installs which always works by default. Most people who have issues with installing Arch are almost always just new to Arch or Linux. I had a lot of issues starting out with Arch but after the first 6 months learning curve I rarely had issues. I have been using it for over two years now on a daily basis, across multiple Macbook and Thinkpads models and custom desktop build. It has been very stable and though most software versions are often 1-2 yrs ahead of Debian/Fedora. I actually had way more problems while using Fedora for two years prior than I ever did with Arch. The Arch package library (AUR), wiki, and pacman provide a very strong foundation for using Linux as a desktop.