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Re: battery; don't know for a new battery, but my original lasts 4-5 hours running linux - which is very good (IMO) given that it was bought at the start of 2016.

Don't know about having a MacOS alongside but if the disk is small, you might not want that anyway. And I presume you could always go back to MacOS later.

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I recently tried a dual-boot configuration with my iMac 27" with both macOS and Ubuntu and after a short while the boot system got messed up. Couldn't fix it.

I read this is also an experience many Windows users have had when setting up dual booting systems with Linux.

At this point I think it's generally a bad idea to setup a dual-boot system with Linux, better to use it exclusively.

It's not the "with Linux" but that's the bad idea though, is it? It seems this is an area where Microsoft (I don't know about Apple) are getting away with anticompetitive practice in the guise of security.

Hm, I disagree. I have two desktops that I dualboot with windows 10 and various linux distros, currently ubuntu lts. If you install windows first then linux, it should work ok.

I wonder what happen, in my experience updates sometimes make that OS take over booting from each other, you should check rEFInd and the info on the website. He is the guy dealing with this

There are battery replacements, but some are sub-par and won't hold as much charge as they report. I returned a battery I bought from Amazon and bought another from a Duracell license holder, it worked better.

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