Developer focus for Fedora workstation

[Chris Murphy]

On Aug 19, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:

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>> While we can make our Mac hardware story better, we need to keep in mind that
>> Apple is a pretty hostile company here in terms of running alternative
>> operating
>> systems. There is absolutely no information from them on their hardware, so
>> we are
>> often left with having to reverse engineer to fix bugs, which is slow and
>> time consuming.
> 
> That's mainly wrong. The hardware from this year's MacBook Pros is 99% the same
> as last year's MacBook Pros. Apart from the usual rigmarole of keyboard and touchpad
> USB IDs updates, it works as well as last year's. The only thing that doesn't
> work out of the box on those machines is the wireless card.

I don't agree with this based on my experience with 3 out of 3 laptop models:

b43 supports 802.11g only, proprietary driver is needed for wireless-n;
bluetooth hasn't never cooperated, various problems;
trackpad use is erratic;
overheating and MCE errors, one laptop died while overheating.

Even though I don't know the laptop died because of overheating, it seems risky to run linux on Macs right now, but I might just be really unlucky.



> The dual boot experience is sub-par, but that's mainly because we regressed
> the installer compared to when Matthew fixed all that a couple of years ago.

The resulting dual-boot experience from Fedora 17 is the same as Fedora 18+ so I'm not sure what this refers to. In any case I'm more concerned about post-install issues.


Chris Murphy