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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by ljosa on Thursday September 25, 2014 @12:21AM (#8365608)
So now it's ThinkPad or MacBook Pro. What is it like to run Linux on MacBook Pros these days? Does Ubuntu and other popular distributions install without much fiddling? Does any of the hardware not work with Linux?
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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by darkstar999 on Thursday September 25, 2014 @12:49AM (#8365677)
I'm a fan of linux and have never owned a Mac, but honestly if I had one I'd just stick with OSX. It's going to be a much better experience.
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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by maximumoverload on Thursday September 25, 2014 @01:20AM (#8365761)
Well, this is an installation guide for the latest MacBook Pro, for the latest ubuntu.

I wouldn't call this "easy".

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro11-1/Saucy

It also has a fairly big section "Things that do not work (or fully work) yet".

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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by Synaesthesia on Thursday September 25, 2014 @01:26AM (#8365779)
Virtualisation is actually a really nice way to run Linux on a Mac.
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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by 72deluxe on Thursday September 25, 2014 @05:12AM (#8366293)
I second this. It means stuff typically just works (including that old chestnut hibernation), plus it means you can write OSX/iOS software still (which is why I bought one in the first place)
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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by Reebles on Thursday September 25, 2014 @12:47AM (#8365674)
I know that the web cams on new Macbook Pros do not work on linux, and there has been little to no progress on making them work.
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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by bluthru on Thursday September 25, 2014 @01:32AM (#8365790)
The battery life might be better if you virtualize linux instead.
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