You wish. For years, I have been trying to run Linux on my dual GPU Macbook Pros. This generally works, but Linux always uses the "big" GPU, thus battery life is abysmal.
Thank you for those links. I have not yet been successful in booting any Linux in EFI mode on the MBP. EFI mode is required for using the integrated GPU. Currently, EFI mode on an MBP seems to require a custom-built kernel, which frankly is too much trouble in my book. I will try again in a few weeks.
This has probably struck you before, but any reason why you're not using a Linux VM? Free virtualization solutions are available that would certainly save you quite a bit of trouble.
Adding RAM to your MBP should be fairly straightforward (and cheap) if necessary.
For most of my work, I need a terminal, a text editor and a web browser. Ocassionally some light vector graphics work and a simple sound editor. I can do all this on any Unix-like system. It mostly even works on Windows.
The only technical reason I have to use Linux over OSX is performance. OSX can be a memory hog and it is very much limited by hard drive performance. I more or less solved this with more RAM and an SSD, but having more resources available would be nice.
Thus, it really defeats my purpose to use Linux in a VM. But thank you for suggesting it!
I would like to use Linux for ideological reasons. I only realized the value of doing so in the last few years. After buying my last Macbook.
Besides, what's the ideological difference between Dell, Apple, Lenovo and Asus as hardware manufacturers? You know, not in terms of price, but freedom.
