You can also run X on a Mac.  Not the purest solution among purists, but it
does give the best of both worlds ... especially if much of your Linux work
is actually via ssh into remote servers.  Works well for me ...
-C

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Diego Martinez <admar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> watch hardware specs instead, I run alienware with ubuntu (15.10), I know
> I am crazy,
>
> the Killer 1525 killer 1535 wireless cards are not really working out of
> the box, although it seems to be improving with te 4.x kernels,
>
> headphone/mic jacks are not working with the CA0132 soundcards, although
> bluetooth headphones work.
> this is the soundblaster Z line of sound cards, internal speakers work
> fine though, as well as microphone.
>
> nvidia gt980 and under seem to work so great I cant believe it.
>
> Diego
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Matthew Geier <matt...@acfr.usyd.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> If you stay away from Nivida Optimus and take the Intel wireless card
>> option, pretty well every thing should work fine.
>>
>> My office is full of committed Linux users and really the only thing
>> that causes pain is Optimus. To the point that we sent one relatively
>> high end Dell Latitude back as it just could not run Linux reliably.
>>
>>
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