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Still, the support has evolved quite a lot in recent years, and you'll get a lot of the two-finger and three-finger gestures working with this driver: $ yaourt -S xf86-input-multitouch-git Let's face it, this will probably always be a strong suit for OSx.

You can have the auto-adjustment based on the light sensor, I preferred not to just because I like controlling it manually, but if you do here's how you can do it.

I think the best way is to try for yourself and find what works best for you.Īpart from that, the screen brightness and keyboard light keys work as expected. This is the sort of topic some people usually tend to have very different opinions, and possibly some people experience this differently. I use KDE, and with text anti-aliasing the difference is minimal. That being so after a couple of days I decided to lower the resolution, and the best one that worked for me was 1680 by 1050 px. So Retina support is still a work in progress. After all, Retina resolutions are not yet that popular except on the Mac. Also a lot of the applications that do support it, still have one or another thing that needs adjustment, and then there's the case where some older apps don't support it at all. Great! On the downside each one of these things have to be configured separately, and they don't even share the same syntax. One can also adapt most browsers and even the IDE I use for work has retina support. There is some support on QT and GTK for retina displays, and once you configure those almost all recent apps will work alright.

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The retina display on this particular Mac has as resolution of 2560 by 1600 px. Gladly on Linux, the color profile for the screen was spot on, and I didn't have to do a thing! :) And this is one of those things that you notice and feel awkward if the experience downgrades somehow so I it was one of the things I wanted to try first. The screen is one of my favorite things on the MacBook, and it works wonderfully on OSx.

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How does Arch perform on the MacBook Pro 2015 If you're using El Captain or sooner version of OSx be sure to check this page as well.

#ARCH LINUX MACBOOK 12 INCH HOW TO#

That said, I'll guide newcomers to the Arch Wiki - Installation Guide for instructions on on to install it, and you might want to check the rEFIng webpage on how to install a boot manager that will allow you to boot Linux on your Mac. I suspect that if you gone or want to go this way you probably already installed Arch in the past and know the basics. Those would be an articles into themselves. I'll not dwell on how to install Arch Linux, or how to boot Arch onto a MacBook Pro. NOTE: This guide is about my experience running Arch on a MacBook Pro and how you may improve the experience for that particular scenario. I found some blogs on the web, but nothing that answered what I was looking for or not very recent, that's why after been using it for a while I decided to share my own experience.īeing a fan of Arch Linux, so I had no doubt about what distro I wanted to try. Of course, this is as good as opinions go.Īfter almost a half year of using it daily for my work and personal routine tasks, I was curious to try Linux on it to see how it performs. It is fair to say that it is a good working laptop, it doesn't win in every single aspect but its definitively well balanced, a result from Apple's proven formula with an some refreshments here and there. I've been using the MacBook 13'' early 2015 version since August 2015.

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