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I run Ubuntu on my 11" 2012 Air and have pretty much given up on it. Sleep is a major issue - closing the lid will _most_ of the time have the machine sleep, bu

I run Ubuntu on my 11" 2012 Air and have pretty much given up on it. Sleep is a major issue - closing the lid will _most_ of the time have the machine sleep, but it will also inexplicably come out of sleep without the lid having opened. It's not much fun to find your machine has halted in your bag due to a drained battery. There are other issues too - the trackpad sensitivity is wonky (can be fixed but like all things linux will require some digging), and Ubuntu can't detect the resolution of my external Dell display (potentially a monitor issue rather than the laptop, I don't know. It works flawlessly in OSX). The Air seems to run hotter in Ubuntu and the battery life is also shorter, although not significantly. The only thing I miss from Ubuntu in OSX is apt, but homebrew is functional if not as elegant.

yesbabyyes 14y ago
I use a 13" Air (3,2) - 2010 model - and I have been running Ubuntu since getting it in 2010 (OS X is still installed, but very seldom used). Much the same story as squidsoup, apart from the sleep issues (it's been acting up _very_ occasionally for me, one or two times since I got it). My trackpad is very sensitive, prior to 12.10 I used the "multitouch" driver, which doesn't seem to be maintained (I got it from the mactel ppa [1]), so now I use the "synaptics" driver which seems to me more configurable but I haven't experimented much. That said, I've gotten used to it and it's still a better trackpad than any non-Apple laptop I've used. I would like to find a good config for this laptop, though! It tends to run quite hot. The battery still lasts over five hours, after more than two years daily, heavy use. That's impressive. Edit: The only thing that was really cumbersome with Ubuntu on this was installation: I installed from USB and Apple makes that really difficult, as you can't boot off USB unless you're Apple. Instead, you have to partition the disk and flash the installation image to the disk (and you have to write it to one of the first few partitions, which I didn't at first). [1]: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa

yesbabyyes 14y ago

I use a 13" Air (3,2) - 2010 model - and I have been running Ubuntu since getting it in 2010 (OS X is still installed, but very seldom used). Much the same story as squidsoup, apart from the sleep issues (it's been acting up _very_ occasionally for me, one or two times since I got it). My trackpad is very sensitive, prior to 12.10 I used the "multitouch" driver, which doesn't seem to be maintained (I got it from the mactel ppa [1]), so now I use the "synaptics" driver which seems to me more configurable but I haven't experimented much. That said, I've gotten used to it and it's still a better trackpad than any non-Apple laptop I've used. I would like to find a good config for this laptop, though! It tends to run quite hot. The battery still lasts over five hours, after more than two years daily, heavy use. That's impressive. Edit: The only thing that was really cumbersome with Ubuntu on this was installation: I installed from USB and Apple makes that really difficult, as you can't boot off USB unless you're Apple. Instead, you have to partition the disk and flash the installation image to the disk (and you have to write it to one of the first few partitions, which I didn't at first). [1]: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa