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What's the state of running linux (e.g. Ubuntu or Debian) on recent (< 3 years old) Mac hardware? Given what El Capitan has done to my otherwise fantastic macb

• matt4077 10y ago
  It's the state of Linux on the Desktop anywhere. Expect three hours of fiddling kernel parameters to get sleep to work as expected, followed by the same for Wifi, Sound, Graphics. To be repeated at least with every dist update. Expect different applications to use different languages, some to have menu bars within the window, some on top. Sometimes strg+c copies something, sometimes highlighting text does it. Not all applications use the same clipboard. Font rendering is inconsistent. Some applications bring their own color-, font-, kb-layout-management. Linux is excellent on the server. On the desktop it's ... not something for people complaining about OS X.
  • omginternets 10y ago
    >It's the state of Linux on the Desktop anywhere. I'm a bit surprised at your comment as my experience with linux on the desktop (or laptop) has been consistently good on such things as Dells and custom-built boxes. Granted, there are a few minor bugs here and there, but overall Ubuntu and Debian seem to "just work" on commodity hardware. Maybe I've been lucky? Are you suggesting that all these problems are comorbid or that these are all possible problems one might experience (in an uncorrelated way) on Mac hardware?