I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro (7.1, I think), and everything worked out of the box (including suspend, which historically I haven't had much luck w

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro (7.1, I think), and everything worked out of the box (including suspend, which historically I haven't had much luck with). Also, the fan works fine, and I get between 5 and 8 hours of battery life, depending on what I'm doing. Although, as far as gaming performance goes, I haven't actually run any games. I'm not really sure what you mean by "running on top of a low-level layer that prevents the OS from having proper access to the hardware."