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Frankly, I have a Mac too and I don't like it much. I keep it for the ability to run some pieces of proprietary software like Cubase and Garmin Express and simi
by wazoox 4y ago
Frankly, I have a Mac too and I don't like it much. I keep it for the ability to run some pieces of proprietary software like Cubase and Garmin Express and similar tools to keep my gear updated, but OTOH I really dislike the overall software experience. If only it wasn't so painful to dual-boot linux on it, it would probably live running Linux 99% of the time (but when I need to flash some gizmo or import some proprietary music files).
- captn3m0 4y agoWhich MacBook is this? I was dual booting Arch on my MBA2015 and it ran Linux 99% of the time. Worked fairly well.
- wazoox 4y agoIt's a Mac Pro 2013 (got it as a gift).
- pc86 4y agoI spent a non-trivial amount of time trying to get Linux to boot on my [intel] Mac and when discussing with someone who had been dual booting for a long time, almost invariably when they realized I was trying to do so on a ~2 year old macbook pro, they would just go "ah, that's why" as if that explained all the issues I was having. If I didn't already have a windows laptop for work, an M1 mac for work, an intel mac for personal use, and a dedicated gaming desktop, I might buy a system76 just to play around with various distros.
- the_third_wave 4y agoOdd, I recently installed Debian on a "late 2009" 27" iMac without any problems. Everything "just works", no problems with running the latest and greatest of Linux while Apple does not support this thing any more. I did upgrade the Mac-side of the thing to Catalina but that was more as an exercise than anything else given that I hardly ever use MacOS - only to test things in Safari, really.