Macbook Pro - ditch OSX for Fedora?

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Anyone running Linux on their Apple laptop?

Thinking of converting my Macbook Pro 13" to use Fedora.

I'm already qualified with RH certs and it feels like i'm doing myself no favours by using a non Linux desktop OS. I'd like to get more exposure, hence moving my laptop over. I'll then keep my desktop on OSX so I keep that exposure.

Any thoughts or input from others who may have done this?
 
Anyone running Linux on their Apple laptop?

Thinking of converting my Macbook Pro 13" to use Fedora.

I'm already qualified with RH certs and it feels like i'm doing myself no favours by using a non Linux desktop OS. I'd like to get more exposure, hence moving my laptop over. I'll then keep my desktop on OSX so I keep that exposure.

Any thoughts or input from others who may have done this?

Why not just run a VM ?
 
Anyone running Linux on their Apple laptop?

Thinking of converting my Macbook Pro 13" to use Fedora.

I'm already qualified with RH certs and it feels like i'm doing myself no favours by using a non Linux desktop OS. I'd like to get more exposure, hence moving my laptop over. I'll then keep my desktop on OSX so I keep that exposure.

Any thoughts or input from others who may have done this?

I have recently installed a Xubuntu dual boot. Literally the best value for money upgrade you can do to a Macbook pro. I did this because I had serious issues w.r.t overheating, memory management and CPU throttling in OSX.

Xubuntu mitigates the memory issue enough to avoid the overheating and the subsequent throttling.
 
Shoot Vinohd a mail. He's run some Linux distros on his Mac.
 
No...the best reason to have a Macbook is OSX otherwise you might use any other generic piece of ****.

OSX is the best *nix desktop OS.
 
No...the best reason to have a Macbook is OSX otherwise you might use any other generic piece of ****.
I thought it was because it was something radical, something entirely different. A notebook so thin, so light, and so powerful it's like nothing you've ever seen before. A notebook designed for the future, but ready to use today.
 
Can the factory bootcamp load linux? The tool very specifically requests a windows image to load their drivers and stuff on.
 
I have recently installed a Xubuntu dual boot. Literally the best value for money upgrade you can do to a Macbook pro. I did this because I had serious issues w.r.t overheating, memory management and CPU throttling in OSX.

Xubuntu mitigates the memory issue enough to avoid the overheating and the subsequent throttling.
+1 for Xubuntu

Suppose Fedora XFCE will work just as well if you want Fedora instead of Ubuntu but it looks....old.

BTW, also loaded up Fedora Cinnamon into virtual box and Cinnamon kepton crashing.
 
Can the factory bootcamp load linux? The tool very specifically requests a windows image to load their drivers and stuff on.
You don't need bootcamp to load Linux. If I understood correctly, bootcamp is only there to make the EFI appear to be a BIOS and make the GPT partitions appear to be MBR to make the Windows XP installer happy.
 
I thought it was because it was something radical, something entirely different. A notebook so thin, so light, and so powerful it's like nothing you've ever seen before. A notebook designed for the future, but ready to use today.

Don't get me wrong the hardware is lovely.

But it's the OS that seals the deal.
 
+1 for Xubuntu

Suppose Fedora XFCE will work just as well if you want Fedora instead of Ubuntu but it looks....old.
Xubuntu is just Ubuntu with an XFCE desktop.
So how is it different to Fedora with an XFCE desktop?
 
I can't see why you would do this. I'm an RHCE also (actually, mine's expired, I did it so long ao). My first linux install came on two stiffies somewhere in the mid-late 90's and I ran linux desktops continuously both at home and at work, until around 2007 when my HP laptop's mobo died for the 3rd time, and the 2nd hand Mac Mini I picked up a year earlier to play with became my makeshift desktop. I was impressed enough to pick up a white plastic MacBook and started using that as my main machine. At work, I kept the linux desktop until around 2012 at which point I switched to Windows for "enterprise software" reasons. After three years of Dell Hell I finally switched to a MacBook Pro with OSX late last year. Keep in mind, until a few months ago, I was a mostly Linux and a little of other *nix sys-admin at a hosting company. I spent most of my day fixing stuff customers broke (who ever thought it's a good idea to give customers root access??), testing new releases, automating stuff, etc.

So, with the peleasantries out of the way, here are my thoughts:

1. There's very little you learned in RHCE that is relevant on a desktop.

2. There are very few skills you acquire (or keep fresh) using a linux desktop that has practical application where you encounter Linux in a money-making capacity (web/db servers, mostly).

3. Most of what you can do on a linux desktop that has relevance in actual linux work, you can do on OSX too. In fact, having to cope with a slightly different environment where every thing isn't where you expected and you have to add dependencies and replace bsd variants of shell tools with gnu ones (hint: install brew) will probably do more to sharpen your skills than running fedora ever would.

4. Unless you're aiming to work for the next start-up that will go bust trying to usher in the year of linux on the desktop, most of the work linux people do can be done with no impact to efficiency from Linux, Windows and OS X. Get iTerm2 on OSX or SecureCRT on windows, and you have everything you could ask for in a terminal client.

YMMV
 
Xubuntu is just Ubuntu with an XFCE desktop.
So how is it different to Fedora with an XFCE desktop?

The version seems different. I didn't play a lot with Fedora XFCE (was in a VM just before home time). What I saw was that it looked different from the Xubuntu version I'm running. More themes, but no Numix by default. It had a second panel already setup which Xubuntu didn't.

An update or download or two will probably align them.

Xubuntu stripped/dumbed down and made "pretty"? I wouldn't be surprised, but then this is not my area of expertise.
 
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I agree, the best reason with owning a Mac, is definitely not the hardware, its by far the OS, OSX.
Add brew to your mix of tools, and you have all the linux'ish tools you could dream of having with a Linux based desktop OS.
Not to mention, you dont waste time on getting things to .... work.

Keep OSX, and rather play with VMs, or run a home server to do various things and what not to practice with. I personally run a CentOS based fileserver with KVM VMs for everything else.
 
I agree, the best reason with owning a Mac, is definitely not the hardware, its by far the OS, OSX.
Add brew to your mix of tools, and you have all the linux'ish tools you could dream of having with a Linux based desktop OS.
Not to mention, you dont waste time on getting things to .... work.

Keep OSX, and rather play with VMs, or run a home server to do various things and what not to practice with. I personally run a CentOS based fileserver with KVM VMs for everything else.
I would not agree with definitely. For me they're of equal value.
 
I would not agree with definitely. For me they're of equal value.
Good thing we can all have our own opinion. I certainly see why some value the hardware, but for me the mac hardware is more a money drain, the only reason I live with it, is it just works with OSX, as opposed to rolling your own Hackingtosh (which I have done).
 
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