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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. He

by 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.

by jalada 11y ago

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.