I am considering installing Leap on my Macbook Air, 2013 11" version. It has the Broadcom BCM4360 wifi, which I realise is not fully supported. Any other issues that I may encouter Sean -- No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. Renvyle Weather http://my.meteoware.com/renvyle/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 02:51:22 CEST schreef Sean Rima:
I am considering installing Leap on my Macbook Air, 2013 11" version. It has the Broadcom BCM4360 wifi, which I realise is not fully supported.
Any other issues that I may encouter
Sean Does it still have an ethernet port?
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(sorry for pm, pushed the wrong button...) On 01.10.18 02:51, Sean Rima wrote:
I am considering installing Leap on my Macbook Air, 2013 11" version. It has the Broadcom BCM4360 wifi, which I realise is not fully supported.
Any other issues that I may encouter
Sean
My answer is probably not what you want to hear, but well: I'd first try it with a virtual installation, i.e. install virtualbox on the mac and then within this your linux. That way you can try and see if you like it without the hassle with mac's boot procedure, resizing or deleting the installed OS etc. I had Opensuse (I guess it was 13.x) on a Mac Book pro, but it was quite slow. Also I couldn't manage energy savings to work (that might have been due to my incapability, though), but battery life on Linux was extremely short. I'd consider to sell the mac and with that money buy another laptop with more power. -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer http://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/10/2018 08:17, Daniel Bauer wrote:
(sorry for pm, pushed the wrong button...)
On 01.10.18 02:51, Sean Rima wrote:
I am considering installing Leap on my Macbook Air, 2013 11" version. It has the Broadcom BCM4360 wifi, which I realise is not fully supported.
Any other issues that I may encouter
Sean
My answer is probably not what you want to hear, but well:
I'd first try it with a virtual installation, i.e. install virtualbox on the mac and then within this your linux. That way you can try and see if you like it without the hassle with mac's boot procedure, resizing or deleting the installed OS etc.
I had Opensuse (I guess it was 13.x) on a Mac Book pro, but it was quite slow. Also I couldn't manage energy savings to work (that might have been due to my incapability, though), but battery life on Linux was extremely short.
I'd consider to sell the mac and with that money buy another laptop with more power.
To be honest, I see similar laptops for a lot more money than the MacBook would bring me. Given my uses are light, I may go ahead with it. I can also re-install OS X if it comes to it Sean -- No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. Renvyle Weather http://my.meteoware.com/renvyle/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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