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i've been using linux on my macbook for the past 1.5 years and now i have it on my desktop. webcam both on the mbp and my logitech hd work out of the box. slee
by fernandotakai 10y ago
i've been using linux on my macbook for the past 1.5 years and now i have it on my desktop.
webcam both on the mbp and my logitech hd work out of the box. sleep on closing lid also works quite well -- and i feel waking it up is faster.
- eth0up 10y agoUsing Deb on a macbook 4,1 from 2008. Camera doesn't work though. What year is your mackbook? I configured this one last week for a friend who had it laying around in the closet for years with a locked password and no particular interest in Macs. I convinced them to nix the MacOS and try Linux, arguing it would perform more efficiently, and compared to the MacOS version previously installed, it very much does. And tell me; did you reformat the drive, or just add a partition? I used gdisks and GPT partitioning and eventually wangled it, though not without a little trouble.
- fernandotakai 10y agoi used the native osx disk utility to create a partition. i'm using archlinux on a mid-2012 macbook pro. which kernel were you installing?
- eth0up 10y agoI'm not sure; it was an old Debian Stable dvd, from early last year. And the first thing I did was change the repos to Unstable and do a dist-upgrade. The kernel release is presently 4.7.0-1-amd64. It was all a fairly annoying task to begin with a blank hard-drive and end with a usable system, but it was pretty neat when I got it. It's a usable system now, with a few minor bugs.