On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Torstein Krause Johansen <t...@vizrt.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > On 25 June 2011 23:17, Dan <ganc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will >> mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian? > > Now that's a good question! I got my first Mac in January because I > wanted to check out what all the fuzz was about and to see what's down > to hardware and what's down to Mac OS when praise is given to Macs > that they are "so wonderful". > > Some things that I really like about the Macbook Pro, is the build > quality, the microphone, the sound & the screen. Looking at your > holiday photos using a Mac makes the colours look brighter and people > you talk to on Skype may tell you that you sound better :-) > > Now, the question: would I do it again? I am really not sure. > Considering the price tag, I think the next time I'll pick another > laptop where I can get better specs for the price of the Macbook Pro. > >> Do you have a good experience running Debian in a Mac? > > I've written down what I did to get things running here: > http://tkj.freeshell.org/debian/debian-on-macbook-pro-7.1/ There were > some tricky corners and one notable difference from the Ubuntu > recipes, but all in all it was a fairly smooth ride and much easier > than I thought it would be. > > After sorting the different things out, the only real annoyance I've > still got, is that my xmodmap keep resetting after "some time". I > don't know why, but every so often (5 minutes? 10 minutes? half an > hour, I don't know), my re-mapped keyboard (most notably, I want Meta > instead of the Mac key), jumps back to "normal". Also, I found the > multi touch driver to be pretty buggy, but perhaps a recent update > (the last months) have remedied this. > > Apart from that, Debian runs great on my Mac. >
Hi All, Thanks a lot for your answers. Torstein: Thanks a lot for your explanations and your wiki (Installing debian on a Macbook) It is very clear and useful. Maybe you could ask the writer of the Debian wiki to put a link to your page. Indeed it is updated to 7,1 http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook Lee: Why did yo say that their MacOS feels like having traveled back in time about 20 years? I still have to think about it. I love their design and build quality. But I do not like that their hardware is so closed. I read somewhere that linux has to boot in BIOS compatibility mode because Apple do not release everything about their EFI loader. Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktikknjzvuq8at9qvzz+rgpapjkc...@mail.gmail.com