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I did and never looked back. Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 3

by mr337 11y ago

Diederich 11y ago
Been using Linux on my work macbooks since 2009. There are some bumps involved, but it works really well on the awesome Apple hardware.
- corybrown 11y ago
  How's the battery life?
  - rocky1138 11y ago
    I use a Macbook Pro (2014) with Kubuntu Linux installed full-time. The battery life is about half of what it is when running OSX. If you forget your charger, there is serious range anxiety. Luckily, I've been running PC laptops for years and have gotten completely used to bringing my charger any time I take my laptop.
  - Diederich 11y ago
    I estimate that I get better than half of the battery life. Years ago, when I started doing it, the battery life of Linux on Macbook was really terrible. I only need a couple of hours of battery life for my mac at most, so that's fine for me at least.
  - fernandotakai 11y ago
    I get ~3/4s of the battery life that i have on osx if i do not run anything on flash. if flash starts, i get less than half. (using archlinux on a mid-2012 mbp)
- jalada 11y ago
  I dual-booted Mint on my 2011 MBA the other week and it was a nasty experience. I feel like Linux users have low standards, or maybe I've been away too long. Here's four things I found immediately: 1. The fans don't automatically react to temperature without a background daemon (?!). 2. Multi-touch trackpad support is terrible. The default synaptic driver can't handle you resting your thumb on the bottom of the trackpad. The alternative driver doesn't support momentum scrolling (and is still a bit shit). At least palm detection has been solved; well done Linux, it only took you 10 years. 3. It cannot seem to handle using left Alt as a third-level activator (e.g. for # key on EU keyboards) at the same time as actually letting you /use/ your Alt key (e.g. for activating menus). I think I eventually solved this, but how hard should it be?! 4. As others have mentioned; battery life. I was impressed that sleep, audio, wifi and display brightness all worked out of the box though. Progress, eh?
  - Diederich 11y ago
    I always run Ubuntu.latest. 15.10 on a 2014 macbook pro at the moment. 1. I currently don't have a problem with that (the fans/temperature management). In my seven years of running Ubuntu on Macbooks, I've run into that in the past, but it's been a while. 2. I've never been a 'full' OSX user, but I understand that they are doing a lot of very nifty things with the touch pad, not surprisingly. My experience with the touchpad under Ubuntu is generally not as good as under OSX. 3. Can't comment on this one 4. As described elsewhere. For most people, I would not recommend running any Linux flavor on a Macbook. I am a 'UNIX guy' for decades now. Hell, I even run a minimalistic windows manager (http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/ http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/) For me, the upsides outweigh the downsides. I'm pretty sure that's not the case for most people though.

I did and never looked back. Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 3

by mr337 11y ago

I did and never looked back. Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 3

Been using Linux on my work macbooks since 2009. There are some bumps involved, but it works really well on the awesome Apple hardware.

corybrown 11y ago
How's the battery life?
- rocky1138 11y ago
  I use a Macbook Pro (2014) with Kubuntu Linux installed full-time. The battery life is about half of what it is when running OSX. If you forget your charger, there is serious range anxiety. Luckily, I've been running PC laptops for years and have gotten completely used to bringing my charger any time I take my laptop.
- Diederich 11y ago
  I estimate that I get better than half of the battery life. Years ago, when I started doing it, the battery life of Linux on Macbook was really terrible. I only need a couple of hours of battery life for my mac at most, so that's fine for me at least.
- fernandotakai 11y ago
  I get ~3/4s of the battery life that i have on osx if i do not run anything on flash. if flash starts, i get less than half. (using archlinux on a mid-2012 mbp)
jalada 11y ago
I dual-booted Mint on my 2011 MBA the other week and it was a nasty experience. I feel like Linux users have low standards, or maybe I've been away too long. Here's four things I found immediately: 1. The fans don't automatically react to temperature without a background daemon (?!). 2. Multi-touch trackpad support is terrible. The default synaptic driver can't handle you resting your thumb on the bottom of the trackpad. The alternative driver doesn't support momentum scrolling (and is still a bit shit). At least palm detection has been solved; well done Linux, it only took you 10 years. 3. It cannot seem to handle using left Alt as a third-level activator (e.g. for # key on EU keyboards) at the same time as actually letting you /use/ your Alt key (e.g. for activating menus). I think I eventually solved this, but how hard should it be?! 4. As others have mentioned; battery life. I was impressed that sleep, audio, wifi and display brightness all worked out of the box though. Progress, eh?
- Diederich 11y ago
  I always run Ubuntu.latest. 15.10 on a 2014 macbook pro at the moment. 1. I currently don't have a problem with that (the fans/temperature management). In my seven years of running Ubuntu on Macbooks, I've run into that in the past, but it's been a while. 2. I've never been a 'full' OSX user, but I understand that they are doing a lot of very nifty things with the touch pad, not surprisingly. My experience with the touchpad under Ubuntu is generally not as good as under OSX. 3. Can't comment on this one 4. As described elsewhere. For most people, I would not recommend running any Linux flavor on a Macbook. I am a 'UNIX guy' for decades now. Hell, I even run a minimalistic windows manager (http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/ http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/) For me, the upsides outweigh the downsides. I'm pretty sure that's not the case for most people though.