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Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro
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."
This proves it for once and for all. Apple is evil!!! What?
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Look, sometimes you just want to stick a Chevy four-banger in your Ferrari. It's not rational, it's just linux.
Let's trash linux a little more by complaining how this Ubuntu DVD fails to load on this sundial. There you have it, linux can't even run on one of the most primitive time-keeping devices. It must suck.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
hmm i thought that was fiero and pontiac
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.
That's too bad, 'cause, like most people, I was looking forward to buying overpriced hardware bundled with an expensive operating system and then just running free open source software on it instead.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Package contained a retina MacBook pro. Would not buy again.
Just think how much more smug you are when you're running free software on over-priced hardware. It's a smug upgrade!
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
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.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
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.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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?