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In general, macs have great linux hardware support. Also, they have an unrivaled track pad. Seriously, I will keep buying macbooks until I find another multi-to
by schrodingersCat 12y ago
In general, macs have great linux hardware support. Also, they have an unrivaled track pad. Seriously, I will keep buying macbooks until I find another multi-touch track pad that is better. Btw, does anybody know of one? To tzury's point, the "homebrew" package manager basically makes it so a mac can act as a decent dev machine. Virtualbox will help fill in those gaps. FWIW, check out the Dell XPS 13 developer edition: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx. It comes from the factory with Ubuntu loaded and supposedly good developer friendly features
- habitue 12y agoThis is kind of false. Thunderbolt is not properly supported in the kernel. The keyboard is funky etc. You can run Linux on an MBA, but you're honestly better off going with a hardware that isn't actively hostile to open standards. Re trackpads: The trackpad on the thinkpad X1 series is great
- schrodingersCat 12y agoThat's a good point. Given that I seriously never use my TB port, I totally forgot that driver support is not great. Rumor has it that the existing patches (https://github.com/anoever/thunderbolt https://github.com/anoever/thunderbolt) will make it into the 3.17 mainline. And I'll have to check out the X1. Thanks for the tip!