<div dir="auto">Do your best to avoid a mac with the t2 security chip. That basically renders the SSD useless.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would also suggest you run refind for your boot. It will make life easier for you to swap back and forth for firmware updates. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 5:36 PM Matt Graham <<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2019-11-21 16:34, der.hans wrote:<br>
> Is it really, really easy to install and run debian and Ubuntu on <br>
> Apple<br>
> laptops nowdays? Everything works? Networking, sound, hibernate, etc.?<br>
<br>
It was slightly annoying to run Gentoo on an older OS X machine. Part <br>
of this was because it's Gentoo. Part of this was because it was 2017 <br>
and they've figured out a lot more stuff now. I had no problems with <br>
wired networking, but wireless required some fooling around with kernel <br>
modules that weren't marked stable yet. The whole experience was a lot <br>
like the Lenovo E595 install I did a few months back in that everything <br>
eventually worked, it just took more time than I would've liked. <br>
<a href="https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux</a> says they are having trouble <br>
with sound on the really new machines, but lots of other stuff works at <br>
least partially.<br>
<br>
> Does Apple hardware also have UEFI and other misfeatures?<br>
<br>
Yes. rEFInd worked reasonably well for me so long as you don't need to <br>
change your kernel boot parameters all the time.<br>
<br>
> Are there any decent Apple laptops that have AMD processors?<br>
<br>
Not AFAICT.<br>
<br>
> Can you add more RAM or are you stuck with whatever it came with<br>
<br>
I believe you're stuck with whatever it came with. ICBW.<br>
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