Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 16, 2012 @06:22AM from the but-it-might-soon-be-awesome dept.

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."

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Re:Proof at last! by Cute+Fuzzy+Bunny · 2012-08-16 06:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This proves it for once and for all. Apple is evil!!! What?
I don't think so, since this sounds like every linux installation I've ever done. Some main component never works OOB, I always have to edit a bunch of files and download all sorts of odds and ends before I have a running machine.