[plug] Sacrilege - running Linux on MacBook

[Richard Meyer]

Benjamin, Please consider yourself reprimanded ...  ;)

I am using it and (don't let the others see this - I quite like it), but
I would like to install anyway.

It's not a "have to" unless you count the vow I made back in the
previous century to never support Apple in any way to be binding.

I bought a second-hand one, (so that Apple didn't get the money) and
found the keyboard and screen to be really nice. It's a retina screen,
so the Linux fonts are really, really minuscule.

It's something I want to do.


On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 17:25 +0800, Benjamin wrote:
> 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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-- 
Richard Meyer

As the ghost of a sceptic, I tend to stay pretty quiet.

Linux Counter user #306629