[plug] Sacrilege - running Linux on MacBook

[Benjamin]

I might catch some flak for this, but macOS is worth giving a proper shot
if you've never used it before.

When I bought my rMBP a few years back I was certain I would immediately
ditch macOS in favour of some Ubuntu variant, but gave it a chance and
liked it.

You can install many of the same things with Homebrew that you can on Linux
and I haven't yet found a good reason to jump ship.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Euan de Kock <euan at dekock.net> wrote:

> I've been actively running Fedora on an old Pro  (model a1278) for a few
> years now with no issues. The only real tweak I had to make was to force
> the kbd to treat the numbers as the unshifted keys.
>
> With a decent ram upgrade and ssd drive it's a good machine for general
> use.
>
> I've found one corporate WiFi network that chokes, but all normal WiFi
> hotspots work fine.
>
> Regards,
>
> Euan.
>
>
> On 4 Jan. 2018 16:34, "Richard Meyer" <meyerri at gardenshark.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have succumbed to the Apple media machine and bought a second hand
> MBPro off Fleabay - it's a nice machine, fairly snappy and so on and the
> touchpad is great - keyboard not too bad either.
>
> Anybody taken it to the next step and installed OFOS* on it yet?
>
> I've used to magic of Google - mea culpa - should have used DDG, I know,
> and found quite a lot, lots written by almost technical people.
>
> Also Youtube has a lot - some of it total gibberish and others, full of
> how to install as a VM.
>
> I have booted from USB stick and messed around, but wasn't able to get a
> network connection (WiFi)   (Kubuntu 16.04)
>
> If I were to bite the bullet and go ahead and install, what are my
> chances?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> *  OFOS - Our Favourite Operating System
>
> --
> Richard Meyer
>
> As the ghost of a sceptic, I tend to stay pretty quiet.
>
> Linux Counter user #306629
>
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