<story><title>Linux has better hardware support than OS X</title><url>http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/06/16/linux-has-better-hardware-support-than-os-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Interestingly, I run Ubuntu on a MacBook and a MacBook Air.  As they are a &amp;quot;fixed&amp;quot; target, I figured that at least one developer would have made sure that they &amp;quot;just worked&amp;quot;.  And, indeed, they did.&lt;p&gt;The installation tutorial was comprehensive, the out of the box experience was great, and upgrades have gone smoothly.&lt;p&gt;The only thing to note was that I was able to &lt;i&gt;manually&lt;/i&gt; update the WiFi drivers for (supposedly) better performance if I wanted.  Power consumption seems marginally higher, but I don&amp;#x27;t run the same profile of programs in OSX.&lt;p&gt;Having a fixed target is really good for Linux to show how it can shine - and I hope that Dell and Ubuntu continue to make perfectly matched hardware and software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>Exactly.  If there is any hardware platform that should be a &amp;quot;reference&amp;quot; platform for Linux (or FreeBSD) it should be the mac.  It&amp;#x27;s a very tightly focused hardware ecosystem with broad adoption &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; of higher quality - inside and out.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linux has better hardware support than OS X</title><url>http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/06/16/linux-has-better-hardware-support-than-os-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Interestingly, I run Ubuntu on a MacBook and a MacBook Air.  As they are a &amp;quot;fixed&amp;quot; target, I figured that at least one developer would have made sure that they &amp;quot;just worked&amp;quot;.  And, indeed, they did.&lt;p&gt;The installation tutorial was comprehensive, the out of the box experience was great, and upgrades have gone smoothly.&lt;p&gt;The only thing to note was that I was able to &lt;i&gt;manually&lt;/i&gt; update the WiFi drivers for (supposedly) better performance if I wanted.  Power consumption seems marginally higher, but I don&amp;#x27;t run the same profile of programs in OSX.&lt;p&gt;Having a fixed target is really good for Linux to show how it can shine - and I hope that Dell and Ubuntu continue to make perfectly matched hardware and software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathnode</author><text>What about over heating?&lt;p&gt;I tried ubuntu 12.04, and 12.10 on a 2011 macbook air 4,2.
I followed the information here, some of the tweaks weren&amp;#x27;t needed on 12.10:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;community&amp;#x2F;MacBookAir4-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;community&amp;#x2F;MacBookAir4-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the fans were spinning almost constantly. This was with just firefox and vim usage.&lt;p&gt;OS X seems to do a better job of running Apple hardware at a sensible temperature.</text></comment>