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Unless you're an "ordinary" Mac user who wants a working Linux.

• qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Well, then, you wouldn't want what arch provides. It's not for everyone, and certainly not for the writer of the original article.
  • lomnakkus 10y ago
    > Well, then, you wouldn't want what arch provides. Sometimes, what Arch provides is "it works" as opposed to "it doesn't work". (This was the point I was trying to make.) This is not a hypothetical. I turned a coworked onto Arch by this simply being the only Linux distro that would work on his Macbook Pro (ca. 2015, I think?). He tried Ubuntu recently (12.10)... still didn't work because it could not understand the disk on his machine. This guy is a very competent developer. He's not afraid of a command line. It still took him a few hours (IIRC) to get it installed. (Including with my help + googling various things about how the Mac EFI thing works/doesn't. Incidentally he still has to press some magic key combo on every startup to avoid MacOS starting up. It's goddamn ridiculous.)
    • qwertyuiop924 10y ago
      Fair 'nuff. The EFI bits, and keypress combo, however, are true of any Mac.
    • c3d 10y ago
      You only need to press alt if you want to change the OS to boot relative to last time. It's a convenient way to bring up a built-in graphical boot menu with Internet boot and system restore capabilities. And a nice Fedora logo on my machine.
      • lomnakkus 10y ago
        I don't have an exact idea of what my colleague is doing during boot, but it appears that he needs to press the button on every boot. I think (given his background) he'd have investigated the available options by now, but I don't know...