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Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Linux on Mac?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really? I was just assuming it was more that they wanted to convert one of the fixed-track old-timey cars at the amusement park into something that can drive in the real world, but hey.