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As far as I know, various Unix versions, as well as Win7, will run just fine. No artificial performance penalties, and Apple is currently doing precisely NOTHIN

by Bud 13y ago

As far as I know, various Unix versions, as well as Win7, will run just fine. No artificial performance penalties, and Apple is currently doing precisely NOTHING to disallow installation of alternate OSes. This has been the case for years.

joshuapants 13y ago
Try booting a Linux install USB on a Mac sometime
- tekacs 13y ago
  Running Linux installed by this method on a (2008) Mac right now. Have done the same on recent (2012, 2013) models, too. Macs have been using EFI boot for a few years, so the problem most have probably faced is trying to boot in BIOS emulation mode (which I've found to be iffy on pretty much every EFI motherboard I've come across). Arch Linux has particularly good support. :P
- btgeekboy 13y ago
  I did, a few months ago. Booted both Fedora 19 and 20 Beta on a 2012 13" rMBP. Worked decently well, especially with how the version of Gnome included in F20 knows how to properly deal with high DPI displays.
  - joshuapants 13y ago
    Hasn't worked for me at all no matter how I create the USB, working with a 2011 MBP. Tried literally every method, and several distros.
    - abrowne 13y ago
      I've had good luck booting Fedora (at least 19 and 20, and I think 18) on Macs. Other distros don't seem to work with Apple's EFI implementation. To boot other distros, I've had good luck with the refind[1] bootloader. Granted, I have only been booting live USBs, not installing on the internal drive. 1: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
Orva 13y ago
Except getting macbook to boot anything else than OSX or Windows requires bunch of stuff that I can only describe as 'hacks'. At least it was like so couple years ago (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html) and I haven't heard that things would be different today.

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As far as I know, various Unix versions, as well as Win7, will run just fine. No artificial performance penalties, and Apple is currently doing precisely NOTHIN

by Bud 13y ago

joshuapants 13y ago
Try booting a Linux install USB on a Mac sometime
- tekacs 13y ago
  Running Linux installed by this method on a (2008) Mac right now. Have done the same on recent (2012, 2013) models, too. Macs have been using EFI boot for a few years, so the problem most have probably faced is trying to boot in BIOS emulation mode (which I've found to be iffy on pretty much every EFI motherboard I've come across). Arch Linux has particularly good support. :P
- btgeekboy 13y ago
  I did, a few months ago. Booted both Fedora 19 and 20 Beta on a 2012 13" rMBP. Worked decently well, especially with how the version of Gnome included in F20 knows how to properly deal with high DPI displays.
  - joshuapants 13y ago
    Hasn't worked for me at all no matter how I create the USB, working with a 2011 MBP. Tried literally every method, and several distros.
    - abrowne 13y ago
      I've had good luck booting Fedora (at least 19 and 20, and I think 18) on Macs. Other distros don't seem to work with Apple's EFI implementation. To boot other distros, I've had good luck with the refind[1] bootloader. Granted, I have only been booting live USBs, not installing on the internal drive. 1: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
Orva 13y ago
Except getting macbook to boot anything else than OSX or Windows requires bunch of stuff that I can only describe as 'hacks'. At least it was like so couple years ago (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html) and I haven't heard that things would be different today.