ubuntu 20.04 system locks

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 24 Sept 2021 at 22:21, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Why not install a Ubuntu flavour, it works fine, or duel boot Mac/Ubuntu?
>
> It does take a little work (finding some of the keys on a Mac keyboard hand me
> confused for a while) but can be done in well under your 2 hours

I like Mac OS X, I like Linux. I am not particularly biased. I've been
using MacOS and Macintoshes since before Linux existed; I was
supporting them in the late 1980s.

Macs are good at being Macs. This Macbook, while old, could
comfortably run the OS just one release behind what was current when I
got it. It runs the latest Chrome, Firefox, Skype, Google Drive, etc.
perfectly.

(It runs up to 10.13; at that time, 10.14 was current and is what I'm
typing on right now. I don't want 10.15 because I have some
irreplaceable 32-bit apps, and I don't like the look of the changes in
macOS 11.)

It's a perfectly usable machine, fast, stable and almost entirely
maintenance-free. Google Drive and Google Chrome update themselves and
that's almost all my SO uses.

I personally don't like flat chiclet keyboards, I don't like the big
single-button trackpad and I am not fond of using trackpad gestures. I
use Thinkpads with a trackpoint, 3 mouse buttons and good full-size
full-travel keyboards, and all mine run Ubuntu.

My work laptop is a Dell with a chiclet keyboard, but I almost never
use its keyboard -- it has an IBM Model M permanently attached, as it
lives in a docking station 99% of the time.

I don't really see any reason to put Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro that is
able to run a recent release of the machine's native OS.

OTOH I refurbished an old 2008 MacBook (note, *not* MacBook Pro) for a
friend of my SO's recently, and I put Linux on that. I did have
Xubuntu on it. It worked but with significant drawbacks: the
keyboard's NumLock was on at boot, but there's no NumLock indicator so
you can't tell -- you just couldn't log in. Wifi occasionally stopped
working. The webcam didn't work.

So I tried Linux Mint $LATEST and that worked significantly better,
but it still needed a set of tweaks I describe here:
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/79263.html

So, yes, I *do* have some relevant experience of running Linux on Mac
hardware. But if the version of Mac OS X it can run is recent enough
to be useful, I see no reason or benefit in replacing it.

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