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		AF on May 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm getting a Mac. Which Mac do you use? I just wanted to say that if you ever plan on running Linux on your machine, don't get a Mac. Ubuntu in particular works, but there's a lot of hacking to get it to do so and little issues abound (at least that's my experience).

BitGeek on May 6, 2007 [–]

Did you try running under parallels?

Anyway, 5 years ago, getting Linux running on a Powerbook was really easy... I would think it would be better now, not worse...

AF on May 8, 2007 | [–]

The issue is EFI. The new Intel-based Macs do not use BIOS.

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