[plug] Sacrilege - running Linux on MacBook

[Benjamin]

Fair enough :)

You may have better luck with regular Ubuntu as I think it has better
Hi-DPI scaling support etc, or if you're feeling adventurous try the Ubuntu
18.04 alphas when they hit... ;)

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Richard Meyer <meyerri at gardenshark.org>
wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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