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My 2013 retina mbpro couldn't run Linux successfully including Ubuntu. It's somewhat supported. Except for the trackpad (which you can sort of get working, just

by mnm1 8y ago

My 2013 retina mbpro couldn't run Linux successfully including Ubuntu. It's somewhat supported. Except for the trackpad (which you can sort of get working, just not well), dual graphics switching (and therefore decent battery life), crap external monitor support, and the random crashes. After this last one, I just gave up and I realized I was blaming Linux when in reality it was my fault for using unsupported hardware and trying to run Linux on it. Hadn't had such an unreliable system since the old windows days and that's after days and days of setting it up, trying different distros, etc.

radarsat1 8y ago
Hm weird I didn't have any of those problems, except occasionally issues with external monitors/projectors. Right now I'm running on an ASUS zenbook and it has similar issues with graphics drivers etc (Nouveau) so I don't know if I'd say these problems are specific to MacBook, just normal Linux things.. In that sense every computer is "unsupported hardware" for Linux, so I dunno. (Except maybe some rare purpose-made machines that tend to be expensive anyways..)