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Linux On the Mac — State of the Union

posted by janrinok on Wednesday December 14 2016, @02:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the performance-versus-hype dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The MacBook Pro introduction in October caused unusually negative reactions among professional users due to the realization that Apple no longer caters equally to casual and professional customers as it had in the past [YouTube video]. Instead, the company appears to be following an iOS-focused, margin-driven strategy that essentially relegates professionals to a fringe group.

This has well-known developers such as Salvatore Sanfilippo (of the Redis project) consider a move back to Linux. Perhaps that's a good moment to look at the current state of Mac hardware support in the kernel. While Macs are x86 systems, they possess various custom chips and undocumented quirks that the community needs to painstakingly reverse-engineer.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by physicsmajor on Wednesday December 14 2016, @02:26AM

    by physicsmajor (1471) on Wednesday December 14 2016, @02:26AM (#441132)

    Buy a last-generation Dell XPS 13 on the Outlet, no touchscreen BS, but the i5 with 8GB of RAM. All the kinks are worked out in terms of compatibility, with Dell-supported patches directly mainlined into the kernel. If you develop on Linux, there's not much else to consider except perhaps something from Purism - who I do heartily support, but at Apple pricing.

    You can be a masochist if you want, but I sure wouldn't choose it voluntarily. Make the right call when you buy your hardware.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @03:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @03:43AM (#441161)

    > Why do people put themselves through this?

    Probably because they already own the hardware since it was working with the now deprecated versions of OSX.

  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:49AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:49AM (#441228)

    I put my money where my mouth was and bought a System76 laptop. Extremely nice machine with zero problems, and doesn't throw money to Microsoft or Apple. A little pricier than a Dell, but less than Apple.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @11:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @11:33AM (#441232)

    I missed the 16:10 display option.