4 ms·

I recently took a late 2011 Macbook Pro and installed Ubuntu 19.04 on it. * It was easy. I don't know what to add except it was easy. * It is fast. I now cons

I recently took a late 2011 Macbook Pro and installed Ubuntu 19.04 on it. * It was easy. I don't know what to add except it was easy. * It is fast. I now consider Mojave bloatware, although I didn't know it at the time. It appears that there are now so many things running in Mojave that my old macbook could not handle it. With Ubuntu 19.04 it is FAST. And what can you say? Except imagine what 19.10 would be like on a faster CPU. Not that I need it, but ... * Its fun. Probably this is a function of how fast it is, but also most things just work very nicely. I'm fond of 19.10 in a way that I have not been fond of my macbook since maybe Sierra. * I miss Apple-C and Apple-V for cut and paste and I miss iterm2, but that is all. * The only thing I need a mac for is ios development and for that I plan to get a mac mini, but otherwise the run from an Apple II, through a Mac SE and an iMac has ended for me. * Oh, and you can run wine and windows stuff really easily on 19.10.

mxcrossb 7y ago
I’ve been dual booting Ubuntu on a ~2016 MacBook Pro, and have found the power management is pretty rubbish. Any tips?
prutschman 7y ago
How well is the trackpad supported?
dreamcompiler 7y ago
Could you talk about battery life, sleep/wakeup, and trackpad feel? It's been many years since I tried this, and at that time those things were pretty bad.
- ses1984 7y ago
  They're still bad.
  - cosmiccatnap 7y ago
    ...I've heard this alot but I run arch and have not once had an issue with power management. Maybe try gnome instead of unity or try kde if you like the Mac feel
illabo 7y ago
I’ve used Ubuntu before completely switching to Mac 10 years ago and still use it sometimes on PCs. For me Ubuntu can’t be the primary os to use as there aren’t any decent software in for many activities e.g. image and video editing. One cannot just keep writing code on one screen and convert a bunch of raw photos on another simply putting all together to create final product. Linuxboxes aren't an option when your tasks are diverse, Linux is only ok when you just need to write code, any other tasks could be accomplished of course but not in macOS “just works” manner.

mxcrossb 7y ago

I’ve been dual booting Ubuntu on a ~2016 MacBook Pro, and have found the power management is pretty rubbish. Any tips?

prutschman 7y ago

How well is the trackpad supported?

dreamcompiler 7y ago

Could you talk about battery life, sleep/wakeup, and trackpad feel? It's been many years since I tried this, and at that time those things were pretty bad.

ses1984 7y ago
They're still bad.
- cosmiccatnap 7y ago
  ...I've heard this alot but I run arch and have not once had an issue with power management. Maybe try gnome instead of unity or try kde if you like the Mac feel

illabo 7y ago

I’ve used Ubuntu before completely switching to Mac 10 years ago and still use it sometimes on PCs. For me Ubuntu can’t be the primary os to use as there aren’t any decent software in for many activities e.g. image and video editing. One cannot just keep writing code on one screen and convert a bunch of raw photos on another simply putting all together to create final product. Linuxboxes aren't an option when your tasks are diverse, Linux is only ok when you just need to write code, any other tasks could be accomplished of course but not in macOS “just works” manner.