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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by trimbo on Saturday April 25, 2020 @12:41PM (#22979310)
I've been trying since the Pentium III to use Linux on a laptop and have finally given up completely. I've tried on a variety of hardware, even with official support. Driver problems and battery life have always been an issue.

But... are we talking about the same XPS laptop? My wife's 13" XPS purchased ~2016 has had horrible reliability. The charging port died a long time ago, fortunately, it charges over USB-C. But now it no longer keeps a charge, won't sleep/hibernate properly (will cook with the lid closed), and more. A friend of mine bought the same one at the same time and his is also breaking down (keyboard problems).

I've tried to get her to switch to Mac, but she prefers Windows, so next time I'm buying her a Surface Laptop. HTH anyone considering the XPS.

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by wpietri on Saturday April 25, 2020 @12:58PM (#22979420)
For what it's worth, I've been running Linux on Lenovo laptops for years and years, and lately it has been fine. No weird tweaks, no special kernel builds. It just works.
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by trimbo on Saturday April 25, 2020 @01:02PM (#22979440)
Is the battery life any good? That has always been the Achilles heel for me. The battery life is like half or 3/4 of what windows gets on the same hardware.

Last I tried this was on a 2016 X1 Carbon.

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by bproven on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:43PM (#22980789)
Carbon X1 (6th gen ), I can get 8-9 hours light stuff and solid 6 doing work. That is pretty much equivalent to the macbook 13.

I have a macbook 15 for work and am extremely disappointed in its battery life, so I think the Lenovo matches up well.

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by trimbo on Saturday April 25, 2020 @04:04PM (#22980978)
Bizarre. I probably only could get 3-4 hours tops with that Carbon X1 (might have been 4th gen?). What distro do you run? Mine was running Ubuntu.
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by bproven on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:02PM (#22981463)
Fedora - currently 31

I do have tlp running on it.

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by kmorgh on Saturday April 25, 2020 @01:27PM (#22979619)
Could get close to a full day of work on the X1 Carbon Yoga Gen2. T480s not so much, but also packs a lot more punch. x1s seem to have best portability
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by wpietri on Saturday April 25, 2020 @01:07PM (#22979479)
I don't run Windows, so I have no idea. On the T-Series machines I get the larger battery and it lasts long enough for my purposes.
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by ngcc_hk on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:37PM (#22980196)
Any page you can point to. Have an old T I want to try this.
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by wpietri on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:59PM (#22980400)
I literally just installed stock 18.04. In your shoes I'd start with a USB key and this page: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

You might check out your old model here, just to see if there are important tweaks: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by intopieces on Saturday April 25, 2020 @02:51PM (#22980333)
>I've tried to get her to switch to Mac, but she prefers Windows, so next time I'm buying her a Surface Laptop. HTH anyone considering the XPS.

If HW reliability is a concern and you want to choose Apple, couldn't you BootCamp it or run Windows in a full screen VM?

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by selectodude on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:19PM (#22980570)
Windows runs on a Mac, but I hesitate to say it runs well. The trackpad is pretty mediocre and I have lots of issues with Bluetooth. Additionally, the laptop only exposes the GPU so it never switches to integrated graphics and my battery life sucks.
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