I'm currently in the process of moving which means giving up my Arch Linux desktop and taking my macbook with me. So I was curious how is anyones experience running Arch on a macbook?
Ask HN: How's your experience running Linux on a macbook?
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Re: Ask HN: How's your experience running Linux on a macbook?
#2I run linux in virtual box (with vagrant) as a server on my macbook. I'm using Ubuntu, It works fine. I start it and stop it as needed.
You could boot directly into linux using bootcamp, bu not sure how well that will work. Drivers might be an issue.
Re: Ask HN: How's your experience running Linux on a macbook?
#3In general, slightly older MacBooks are better supported.
Some UI issues: out of the box, right mouse clicks are two finger taps, which is OK, but I like the option of also using something like control-tap.
I just replaced my wife's 6 year old MacBook Air, and I put the latest Ubuntu on it this week. It is a 32 bit machine, so no Linux Google Chrome, and installing a few things like SpiderOak took some extra time to get right, but everything runs well, although slowly since the machine is ancient. Getting a one or two year old MacBook and using Linux should be fine.
Re: Ask HN: How's your experience running Linux on a macbook?
#4In general, slightly older MacBooks are better supported. Some UI issues: out of the box, right mouse clicks are two finger taps, which is OK, but I like the option of also using something like control-tap. I just replaced my wife's 6 year old MacBook Air, and I put the latest Ubuntu on it this week. It is a 32 bit machine, so no Linux Google Chrome, and installing a few things like SpiderOak took some extra time to…
Yeah, I'm currently running at 2014 Retina model so I'm hoping it won't be that bad. Thanks for your advice!