![]() ![]() Note that you can access all your OSX files from inside Linux, as long as you don’t have OSX’s “FileVault” disk encryption turned on. I am dual booting for now, but I haven’t had to get back into OSX all week. ![]() Installation went totally smoothly for me. How to Get Linux Mint 18 running perfectly on a Macbook Pro 9,2 With that said, I am damn impressed with how well Linux Mint runs out of the box on my Macbook Pro 9,2 (mid-2012). Still I don’t know if I would recommend converting your existing system if you’re a techno noob better to buy a system with Linux pre-configured. OK, easy to say that this has come a LONG way since then. The last time I used Linux as a primary laptop OS was with Gentoo in 2003. I can run an environment which respects my choices about privacy, which gives me the freedom to do whatever I want with my computer. Well, I don’t have to “be programmed” passively. OSX increasingly feels like “someone else’s computer” for me. Someone recently described the choice to me as “program, or be programmed.” That really stuck in my mind. I’m switching to an OS that lets me make those choices. I disagree with some of your choices about the system, what software I should use, where I may install it from, and how I may use it. But I don’t want an appliance, I want a computer. You’ve gotta lock down in order to make peoples’ computers reliable, easy to use appliances. ![]() Apple, I completely understand the direction you are going with your environment. This week I read about everyone’s problems getting OSX Sierra going, and I decided it was time to take the plunge. One of these days, I threatened, I would jump back to Linux as a primary desktop environment. At the time I complained about the direction Apple is going. A few months ago I posted about my frustrations getting El Capitan working with my relatively simple developer needs. ![]()
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