Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro 780
An anonymous reader writes "It turns out that Linux doesn't work too well on the Apple Retina MacBook Pro. Among the problems are needing special boot parameters to simply boot the Linux kernel, graphics drivers not working, no hybrid graphics support, WiFi requiring special firmware, Thunderbolt troubles, GNOME/Unity/KDE not being optimized for retina displays, and other snafus, including 20% greater power consumption with Linux over OS X. According to Michael Larabel, it will likely not be until early next year when most of the problems are ironed out for a clean 'out of the box' Linux experience on the Retina MacBook Pro."
Proof at last! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linux on Mac?! (Score:4, Funny)
Look, sometimes you just want to stick a Chevy four-banger in your Ferrari. It's not rational, it's just linux.
And next (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linux on Mac?! (Score:0, Funny)
hmm i thought that was fiero and pontiac
Fusion is your Friend (Score:2, Funny)
Why waste so much time/effort with a BOS install? Run it in VMware Fusion full-screen like I do. Pick your battles, my friends.
Re:And next (Score:5, Funny)
That isn't linux's fault, it's Ubuntu's. Slackware will run just fine on your sundial.
What a shame (Score:5, Funny)
Instead of Linux laptop (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linux on Mac?! (Score:5, Funny)
Just think how much more smug you are when you're running free software on over-priced hardware. It's a smug upgrade!
Re:Video RAMM matters more than screen resolution (Score:3, Funny)
Then why are you concerned about using a Macbook?
If all they're going to offer with the super-duper Retina display is 1gb RAM, then just ignore the platform. Who's going to play flight simulator on a Macbook?
Now if you were developing an anal sex simulator, then you'd want to make sure it ran on Apple hardware.
Well, speaking as a hipster (Score:5, Funny)
Why in the world would you even try to do it? What is the goal of this endeavour?
When I first got into Mac, it was still a rare thing. And so that made me better than everyone else. I got to look down on PC users and call everyone who came after me poseurs. Then, as Mac's became more and more popular, I started noticing that EVERYONE was carrying them. I even saw people using them in Starbuck's, for Christ's sake (as I passed by the window on my way to an indie coffee shop that you've probably never heard of).
This forced me to do something to set myself once more off from the pack, so that I might reaffirm my moral and intellectual superiority. Obviously, I couldn't go to Windows. So naturally I turned to Linux, and an obscure distro than only a few of us know about (if you have to ask which one, don't bother).
It was perfect. Now when people saw I was using a Mac and asked me about it, I could tell them "Yeah, it's a Mac, but not the kind YOU'RE using" and blow off any subsequent questions with "I could tell you more, but you wouldn't get it." Once more, I was whole!
I would talk more about it, but I've got to get to a Semertian Poetry reading. Not that I expect you to know what Semertian Poetry is.
Re:Linux on Mac?! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh boy, you did it now.
If I don't see you in a few days, I'll send a search party out to look for your karma.
Re:And next (Score:5, Funny)
My NetBSD install CD caught fire in my toaster. Still waiting for a patch.
Re:Video RAMM matters more than screen resolution (Score:5, Funny)
Now if you were developing an anal sex simulator, then you'd want to make sure it ran on Apple hardware.
You can't, at least not with iOS - remember that clause in developer license agreement that forbids products directly competing with ones offered by Apple?
Re:Proof at last! (Score:3, Funny)
It's not 1997 anymore...the kernel has 99% of the drivers you'll need, unless you need a proprietary one or something that's up for inclusion in the kernel that hasn't made it into the stable version yet.
Or unless you want to do something really bizarre like using wifi to connect to a network...
Re:Proof at last! (Score:4, Funny)
If they say "linux" without specifying a distro, obviously, they must be talking about LFS [linuxfromscratch.org]. That's going to be tricky no matter what hardware you try to put it on, and it's certainly not going to "just work" right out of the box...
Re:Proof at last! (Score:5, Funny)
woooooooosh..
Did you hear that?
No, my sound card doesn't work under Linux.