Mint on my air

[yuedatte]

I just bought a 13 " i5/8gb/256 macbook air. Loving it!!! but feeling a little into linux mint. I have reasons to believe a lot of the hardware won't work. Does anyone have an idea of what to do?

 

[falconeight]

Your questions are kind of confusing.

 

[flight]

You could try running it in VirtualBox to get your Mint fix.

 

[kodeman53]

Does anyone have an idea of what to do?

Ask this question on a linux site.

 

[Steve121178]

Install Mint as a VM.

 

[trondah]

I would definitely expect issues with everything from the bootloader, wifi/bluetooth drivers, power saving, displayport to hdmi, etc. I'm a Linux user since 1995 and use it professionaly every day, but I can never understand why anyone would want to buy a Mac to use Linux on. I agree with those saying run it in a VM if you must.

 

[marzer]

I just bought a 13 " i5/8gb/256 macbook air. Loving it!!! but feeling a little into linux mint. I have reasons to believe a lot of the hardware won't work. Does anyone have an idea of what to do?

Mint + VirtualBox = Refreshing Linux Fix

I've done this myself, easy to set up and FREE!

 

[alex0002]

The virtual machine options have been covered in other posts, but if you want to dual boot OS X and Linux there is some info here:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple_mba2013_ubuntu

Right now, the built in WiFi won't work with the standard kernel drivers, you shouldn't expect the same battery life as OS X and stability might not be so good at this stage, but most likely nothing that won't get fixed in time.