How are Macbooks for linux work? I'm planning on getting

>>58757438
Ive installed Linux on a couple of MBPs and it works. I personaly use Lubuntu and it works perfect. All the Wifi-drivers and similary often problematic drivers work just fine!
The one thing that is a bit anoying is apples new SIP (System integrity Protocol) that came with El Captian, it prevents you from doing any low level stuff while activated.
But how to deactivate that is specified in rEFInds wiki!
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
If you didnt know, you will need an other bootloader (like rEFInd to boot different OS:es that OSX/MacOS)

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>>58757438
>don't know if its a mistake.

Not even Acer is as utter shit as Applel.

>>58757438
you can easily install Arch on its own partiton but I don't bother anymore. I have Arch in a VM but don't need it that much. MacOSX is POSIX and everything runs and you can compile anything.

check out http://brew.sh/ it;s a package manager for Mac that has everything.

I had a late 2012 rMBP 15, fully loaded model, and it was pretty good. Did a lot of terminal work and such. Ran Arch in a VM, worked fine. 2015s are pretty much the same, a bit faster and cooler. I'd say it's probably a pretty damn good machine. Obviously a thinkpad is another good option though.

>>58757796
Wonder if there is any similar datab about Linux on Apples machines?
The reason that i ask is that i just installed Elemental on a 2008 mac which El Capitan was the last MacOS compatible with that model...
And the laptop went from sluggish with OSX to just butter-smooth with Elemental!
(i used Elemental just to fool people at the office that it was the new version of MacOS...)

>>58757438
Linux works on everything. Checking in on a MBA running mint

There's no reason to buy a Macbook Pro if you're not using MacOS, why would you want Linux when you have something that actually works and has support?

ROS even works with Homebrew.

>>58760096
>macbook into nonfree gnu/linux
why do people do this. like some nonfree gnu linux arent that bad but mint :(

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You're going to have trouble with the lid sleeping when closed

Use kernel 4.9 and above
echo and turn off the right things in
/proc/acpi/wakeup