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		blakesmith on July 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X Mountain Lion available on the Mac App Store Hardware support/ease of setup mostly. I ran Ubuntu on my iBook PPC circa 2005 or so, and it wasn't a great experience. Has hardware support for the modern mac lines gotten better in recent years?

mitjak on July 25, 2012 | [–]

Absolutely. E.g., check out the Ubuntu wiki:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro

duaneb on July 25, 2012 | [–]

It's usable but hardly ideal.

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